Is This Your Shop?
The first step on the road to profitable growth is an honest self appraisal of your business situation. Print this survey, administer it to your key people, tabulate the results, calculate the costs of continuing to live with these problems, and then decide how you will move forward with a corrective action plan.
Is This Your Shop |
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1. Our customers want it all—price, quality & fast delivery. |
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2. Customers constantly change priorities, cause confusion and add costs. |
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3. We are continually rescheduling orders in production. |
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4. We need to increase sales—competition is fierce. |
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5. We’re unsure about the accuracy of our estimates. |
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6. Our lead times are too long. |
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7. WIP is too high with too many orders on the floor at one time. |
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8. Rework is killing us. |
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9. Our organization is fragmented, barriers exist, communications are poor. |
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10. We seem to be dealing with the same problems over and over. |
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11. Set-ups and changeovers take too long. |
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12. We don’t know if we make or lose money on orders. |
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13. We continually ship late. |
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14. Getting accurate information for analysis and decision making is a nightmare. |
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15. Cash flow is a constant problem. |
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You can lead a horse to water...
