Supply chain management

Subject: Supply chain management

Business Process Improvement Project

Process Name: Pharmaceutical Product planning and inventory control.

Process Purpose: Smooth production flow

Process Output: Availability of products to the pharmacy/Patient

It’s basically a process at your job to identify the process gap that hampers your production availability and business and you can make better or improve it. Its a business process improvement process.

Like I need a total of 10,000 boxes for packaging of the tablet but I produced 7000 box that means I couldn’t produce 3000 tablet causes of unavailability of boxes. As a result, smooth production will not be possible. That means there is a gap in monthly/yearly product demand from market analysis. We have to find out the gap and how to improve it. Like this other inventory as availability of raw material, packaging material, lack of production planning, machine effectiveness, number of workers, Proper schedule. We should have proper product planning and demand analysis of how much raw materials needed, how much packaging materials need, how much product we produced per month to fulfill the customer demand. We have to find some gap and improve the gap; Drawing must include cause project grade depends on micro drawing and follow the below requirement carefully and see the attached file as a reference.

What should we do?
Business Process Improvement Project
, analyze, and propose an improvement to a process.
To receive full assignment credit, deliverables should include:
1. Summary and list of observed waste/muda
2. Business Process Data Collections Worksheet
3. Current State Micro Drawing
4. Future State Micro Drawing

Guidelines and Recommendation(s):
• Drawings should include Cycle Time and Backlog (preferably Cycle Time, Lead Time, and Backlog).
• The ‘Future State’ may pose difficulty for students if they are in a position where they are not empowered to make a change. For the purposes of the assignment, assume you are empowered to change the process.
• Drawings will not be evaluated on the basis of flowcharting skills (e.g. what type of object/shape to use, etc.). If a student only wants to use “boxes”, this is ok.
• Process analysis and data gathering can be quite time-consuming. Use your best estimates (your instructor won’t know the difference).
• No two organizations in the world do things the same way and/or use the same vocabulary. If easier, cater to your organization and do your best to translate for your instructor.
• Students are free to any type of application to create drawings. For some students, using MS Office (PowerPoint, word, excel) is easier. Other students will find using a flowcharting application such as Visio easier. I find using a free app such as Lucidchart as super easy ().
• If students would like to expand the submission to include DMAIC, PDSA, fishbone diagrams, etc….who knows….there could be consideration of Bonus points!
• This is an individual assignment. If students share the same employer, a group of 2 is ok.