Value of Information Sharing Between and Among the Functional Departments: An Insight
The General Manager – Operations (GM) of a small scale company M/s XYZ Company had was employing most of his working hours resolving conflicts between various functional departments than to focus on planning for the capacity addition, modernizing of the shop floor and identifying ways of improving the competitiveness of the company. Apart from the conflicts the other problems that he was facing was long lead time, delay in deliveries, customer complaints regarding the quality, high inventory
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XYZ Limited: Company Background
M/s XYZ Limited was an ISO certified small scale manufacturing company. The company had ten departments namely, Marketing, Design, Personnel, Finance, Purchase, Production Planning and Control, Production, Stores, Quality and New Product Development. The firm produces products in a made-toorder environment. The lead time for delivery ranges between 45 days and 10 months depending upon the type of products. The production of the company can be divided into three divisions. There was a fabrication shop that includes painting and plating, a machine shop that had manually operated machine tools and an assembly shop. There were 80 shop floor employees and around 40 administrative employees. Currently the firm M/s XYZ Limited had multiple suppliers and the company had decided to prune the number of suppliers.........
Exhibits
Exhibit I: Organization Structure
Exhibit II: Demand Data for Stand-Alone Switch Assembly
Exhibit III: Demand Data for Panel Assembly
Exhibit IV: Backward Scheduling
Exhibit V: Master schedule – Month-wise Schedule
Exhibit VI (a): Demand Data of Connecting Levers
Exhibit VI (b): Demand Data of Contact Levers
Exhibit VII: Frequency and Quantities of Order of Connecting Levers
Exhibit VIII: Price Details of Connecting Lever
Exhibit IX: Demand of Product X
Exhibit X: Steel Rod Specifications
Exhibit XI: Specifications of the Suppliers
Exhibit XII: Quotation 1 Price Details
Exhibit XIII: Quotation 2 Price Details
Exhibit XIV: Quotation 3 Price Details
Exhibit XV: Bill of Materials of Switch Assembly
Exhibit XVI: Panel Assembly Bill of Material
Exhibit XVII: Process of Panel Assembly
Exhibit XVIII: Demand Data
Exhibit XIX: Freight Rates