Case study

Advancing operations, safeguarding processes, and promoting a continuous improvement culture

SAS interior modules specializes in the assembly, logistics and development of modules for motor vehicles

SAS Automotive

Operational excellence

Germany

“It was like our Operations team was from Venus and our Finance Department from Mars. We simply didn’t have a common language to frame CI activities in financial terms.”

Freddy Torres, Operational Excellence System Director, SAS Autosystemtechnik Verwaltung GmbH

Background

Pain

Operations and Finance Departments spoke a different language leading to mismatched expectations and commitments.

Problem statement

Unable to demonstrate alignment of operational excellence and improvement activity and contribution to overall cost reduction and other targets to improve (TTI).

Root cause

No clear linkage between Budget target, project activity, ownership and performance to target.

Software evaluation

SAS had embedded their method and now needed a solution to enable the method, outgrowing spreadsheets and Microsoft SharePoint.

i-nexus was evaluated against several strategy software vendors and was selected based on the conclusion that i-nexus offered best-in-class functionality.

“Operations and Finance now have direct visibility into the alignment between CI project activity and financial results; fostering a culture of understanding, transparency, and ownership / accountability.”

Freddy Torres, Operational Excellence System Director, SAS Autosystemtechnik Verwaltung GmbH

Outcomes

Customer outcome

Demonstrate direct alignment between operational excellence and continuous improvement activity and contribution to improvement targets.

i-nexus solution focus

Common KPI definition between Operations and Finance teams
Standardized approach to operational excellence / continuous improvement projects and activities
Interactive bowling chart enables weekly reviews
Automated management reporting cycles.

i-nexus benefits

Build understanding, transparency, and accountability by linking improvement activities with financial KPIs
Measure continuous improvement results and relative contribution towards financial KPIs
Standardize approach to operational excellence and continuous improvement projects and activities.
Gain real-time insight into activity performance to plan
Track metrics in real-time to measure results against targets
Provide broad visibility into progress and results through automated management reporting

By the numbers

Projects

1200

SG projects

Scorecards

KPIs

Sites

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