Flow & Pull in an integrated office and manufacturing environment

The emergence of the global market placehas placed an increased focus on customer satisfaction. Organisations haveplaced an emphasis on creating flow and pull systems aiming to satisfycustomer requirements. The concept of a lean culture has been applied to both the manufacturing lines and the office environment,aiming to increase efficiencies while reducing indirect waste. These concepts are generally viewed as independentactivities rather than interdependent connection points. In a modern highlyregulated pharmaceutical industry, the integration of a lean office and leanmanufacturing is prevalent to satisfying stakeholders requirements. Competingbusiness priorities can inhibit flow, by creating an indirect push within thevalue stream.
 
This paper highlightsthe benefits of embedding a systematic flow and pull system into an integratedLean Office and lean manufacturing business . By focusing on the flow of informationand material through the values stream,  bottlenecks are be easily identified andeliminated from the workflow.. The growth of business intelligence has created increasedopportunities for organisations to gain a competitive advance utilising leantechnology to improve customer satisfaction. 

The results of my case study are as follows:
1) Created a live planning & control Power BI dashboard – that visualises bottlenecks in the information and product flow
2) Relaunched the existing planning & control meeting with a core focus on the dashboard performance
3) Introduced a continous improvement template to remove the rootcause of the bottleneck in the flow
4) Area ownership and accountability is now part of the meeting

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The function of the Introduction is to establish the context of thework being reported. This is accomplished by discussing the relevant primaryresearch literature (with citations) and summarizing the current understandingof the investigated problem. Furthermore, the purpose of the research must bestated in the form of hypothesis, question, etc. The research approach andrationale should be briefly explained. The possible outcomes must be revealed.
 
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