How to solve the problem of rich people caused by lean production?

After lean implementation, the efficiency has been improved, and enterprise managers can evaluate which jobs that were originally outsourced can be done by rich manpower, such as processing, packaging and maintenance. After that, we will study whether the self-made expenses are consistent with the original outsourcing expenses. For those companies with a long history, such changes can bring great improvement. In this way, the so-called "redundant" manpower is no longer "redundant", but has become an employee who can create value.

2. Establish an improvement team.

Managers can form rich people into internal improvement groups. These employees can make their own fixtures and simple automation equipment at the production site. This move further accelerated the speed of on-site improvement.

3. Participate in full-time improvement

In the process of improving the efficiency of production lines or business units, reducing the number of enterprises and improving lean activities, outstanding employees emerging in production lines and enterprises can be promoted to become elites of full-time improvement teams. This has several advantages. On the one hand, promote the best employees from the production line. These people are often more likely to find anomalies and waste in their previous work and design and implement practical and effective countermeasures. Because the best employees often unconsciously eliminate anomalies, eliminate waste and restore to the original state when they encounter abnormal situations, resulting in abnormal points not being exposed and hidden in time. On the other hand, the abilities of these best employees can be better applied to improve their work.

4. Improve the supply chain system

Nowadays, competition is not only between enterprises, but also between value chains. Take the automobile industry as an example. Toyota, GM and Volkswagen each have a huge supply chain system with hundreds of suppliers. These are three different value chains. Nowadays, more and more competitive relationships are not just how lean Toyota, GM and Volkswagen are, but how lean their first-tier suppliers, second-tier suppliers and even third-and fourth-tier suppliers are. Their ability to eliminate waste, turn around quickly and ensure reliable quality is playing an increasingly important role. Therefore, for those enterprises that have made great progress in implementing lean, they can promote excellent employees on the production line, set up a lean office to assist suppliers in improvement activities, and send it to the supplier's site to promote improvement. On the one hand, it can help suppliers to improve quality, reduce costs and shorten delivery time, on the other hand, it can further explore what can be improved in product design, production arrangement and order distribution of the assembly plant, so as to make suppliers and even the whole supply chain more lean.

5. Fill vacant positions

Excellent employees in the enterprise can be transferred to vacant positions, which may need to be filled by external recruitment. External recruitment is not only expensive, but more importantly, it takes a long time for new employees to integrate into the brand-new interpersonal environment and get familiar with the process, culture and requirements of the enterprise. Moreover, the employer's understanding of new employees is not comprehensive, and the recruitment process can't really understand whether the externally recruited employees meet the requirements of the enterprise, whether they can integrate into the corporate culture and whether they can play a role. In contrast, employees who are promoted internally can avoid these concerns.

6. Establish a promotion ladder

Excellent employees can be promoted, for example, excellent employees in the original production line can be promoted to team leader, and excellent team leader can be promoted to important positions such as supervisor, director and deputy manager. In this way, on the one hand, these active participants and admirers can better publicize, spread and implement lean in other positions and within a larger scope of responsibilities. On the other hand, it can also play a good demonstration role, so that those employees who are still working in grass-roots positions such as production lines can see a clear career ladder and encourage them to work hard and practice lean. One day, they will be the next to be promoted.

7. Natural attrition of achievements

Enterprises in China are generally short of people, so every enterprise will have natural attrition. Because lean is done well, employees in the enterprise have money. When attrition happens, we may not need to recruit more people, or we may recruit fewer people. For example, if there are three vacancies, the enterprise that does not implement lean may recruit three new employees to fill the vacancies, while the enterprise that implements lean only needs to recruit two employees or even one employee. This can better improve the efficiency of enterprises.

8. Reduce the number of recruitment places

After lean implementation, employees will see, and more importantly, the market and customers will see that the quality of products and services provided by this enterprise has improved, the cost has been reduced, the delivery time has been gradually shortened, and the response speed has been accelerated. Customers may be more satisfied with the products provided by enterprises, customers may give enterprises more orders, enterprises that originally wanted to recruit a small number of employees may not need to recruit people, and enterprises that originally needed to recruit a large number of employees only need to recruit a small number of employees now.

9, improve enterprise flexibility

After the efficiency of the production line is improved, the surplus employees in the grass-roots service posts can arrange for multi-skill training at the production site. On the one hand, it improves the ability of employees and gives them more opportunities for learning and growth; On the other hand, it can also make the production line and service posts more flexible, make it easier to deploy personnel when the order increases, shorten the delivery time when the demand decreases, and meet the needs of customers more flexibly.

10, accelerate the launch of new products.

For enterprises that continue to innovate and launch new products and services, they can promote the hard-working and remarkable backbone of the front line and put them in the post of launching new products and services to prepare them for new products and services. From the production of various fixtures to the design of shelves, and then to the establishment of standardized operations, let him play a greater role, contribute to the innovation of enterprises, and shorten the cycle of new product launch.

Refer to Huatianmou Consulting Network ().