Manufacturing Operations Strategy Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Manufacturing Operations Strategy Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Manufacturing Operations Strategy related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Manufacturing Operations Strategy specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Manufacturing Operations Strategy Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 995 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Manufacturing Operations Strategy improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 995 standard requirements:


1. What are the pitfalls in the manufacturing industry business strategy formulation process that lead to unbalanced linkage between manufacturing and commercial functional operations strategies?
   
   

2. Is the process flow chart in place and identifies all manufacturing operations, handling techniques, inspection steps, alternate/backup processes, and sub contract suppliers?
   
   

3. How do you integrate business rule optimization with other types of optimization that are well established in manufacturing as strategic, tactical and operational?
   
   

4. How do you see the potential of smart, connected products for transforming design, manufacturing, operations, and services in industrial organizations?
   
   

5. What is the empirical relationship of marketing operations alignment customer orientation and competitor orientation in the manufacturing industry?
   
   

6. Is there evidence that all manufacturing and inspection operations have been completed as planned, or as otherwise documented and authorized?
   
   

7. What is the worst thing that could happen to your customers operations if your organizations products/services were to fail or stop working?
   
   

8. What is the percentage of recycled material used for the manufacturing of the product, for an operation or in the completion of a project?
   
   

9. Have you secured any export orders, or possibly launched a partial or complete local manufacturing operation to reduce import dependence?
   
   

10. What is the timing of initial procurement relative to operational testing results and demonstrated manufacturing capabilities?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Manufacturing Operations Strategy book in PDF containing 995 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Manufacturing Operations Strategy self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Manufacturing Operations Strategy Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Manufacturing Operations Strategy areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Manufacturing Operations Strategy Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Manufacturing Operations Strategy projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Manufacturing Operations Strategy Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Manufacturing Operations Strategy project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Procurement Audit: Does the strategy ensure that the concepts of standardisation and coordination of procurement are used to take advantage of the departments collective buying power?
   
   

2. Activity Duration Estimates: Are time, scope, cost, and quality monitored throughout the Manufacturing Operations Strategy project?
   
   

3. Quality Audit: How does your organization know that its processes for managing severance are appropriately effective, constructive and fair?
   
   

4. Procurement Management Plan: Are Manufacturing Operations Strategy project team members involved in detailed estimating and scheduling?
   
   

5. Stakeholder Management Plan: Is pert / critical path or equivalent methodology being used?
   
   

6. Cost Estimating Worksheet: What is the estimated labor cost today based upon this information?
   
   

7. WBS Dictionary: Are overhead costs budgets established on a basis consistent with anticipated direct business base?
   
   

8. Project Performance Report: To what degree do team members understand one anothers roles and skills?
   
   

9. Initiating Process Group: Have requirements been tested, approved, and fulfill the Manufacturing Operations Strategy project scope?
   
   

10. Duration Estimating Worksheet: Define the work as completely as possible. What work will be included in the Manufacturing Operations Strategy project?


 
Step-by-step and complete Manufacturing Operations Strategy Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Manufacturing Operations Strategy project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Manufacturing Operations Strategy project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Manufacturing Operations Strategy project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Manufacturing Operations Strategy project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Manufacturing Operations Strategy project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Manufacturing Operations Strategy project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Manufacturing Operations Strategy project with this in-depth Manufacturing Operations Strategy Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Manufacturing Operations Strategy projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Manufacturing Operations Strategy and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Manufacturing Operations Strategy investments work better.

This Manufacturing Operations Strategy All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.