SLA cycle time commitment in business days to complete the raw material assessment

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Measure Category:
Cycle Time
Measure Id:
108860
Total Sample Size:
19 All Companies
Performers:
25th
– Median
– 75th
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Key Performance
Indicator:
Yes

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SLA cycle time commitment in business days to complete the raw material assessment

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Cross Industry (7.3.0)

  • 2.3.1 - Design and prototype products and services (19993) - Sketching and standardizing product and service based on the market. Analyze the data market competitiveness and innovation attained for the product and service development.
    • 2.3.1.1 - Assign resources to product/service project (10083) - Allocating resources to the design, development, and evaluation of product/service concepts. Allocate funds, personnel, and time for developing the new and/or revised products/services. Begin to design the potential new product/service concepts that have been prioritized and selected for further development.
      • 2.3.1.1.1 - Identify requirements for product/service design/development partners (19994) - Determining essential elements for collaborators involved in blueprint/development of product/service.
    • 2.3.1.2 - Prepare high-level business case and technical assessment (10084) - Preparing a business-level business case and a technical feasibility assessment in order to move the product/service projects forward. Weigh the costs and benefits of designing, developing, and evaluating the shortlisted product/service concepts. Prepare a business case to justify the product/service projects. Conduct a technical appraisal to ensure that the organization has the technical know-how and resources to further develop these concepts.
    • 2.3.1.3 - Develop product/service design specifications (10085) - Creating design specifications. Create specifications for the design of new or revised product/service concepts as a measure to meet during development. Have the senior functional-level solutioning or design staff create a framework of compliance standards for these products/services.
    • 2.3.1.4 - Develop user experience design specifications (16813) - Determining the usability and user experience of products and the business impact it creates.
    • 2.3.1.5 - Provide warranty-related recommendations (16817) - Providing warranty plan and pricing specifications for recommendation.
    • 2.3.1.6 - Document design specifications (10086) - Documenting requirements to meet in the design of new or revised products/services. Specify technical, quality, and costing requirements, as well as ergonomic, safety, and servicing requirements for such products/services. Ensure the information presented can be understood by the personnel executing the design and includes examples, anecdotal references, and illustrations.
    • 2.3.1.7 - Conduct mandatory and elective external reviews (10087) - Conducting any mandatory and elective appraisals of the product/service design specifications in order to ensure compliance with external standards. Carry out external reviews of specifications created for the development of new product/service designs. Conduct mandatory appraisals such as legal and regulatory, as well as any optional assessments that, for instance, pitch the specifications against industrial benchmarks.
    • 2.3.1.8 - Design products/services (19995) - Creating a sketch of the customer focused product/service in Develop and Manage Products and Services [10003].
      • 2.3.1.8.1 - Design for manufacturing (16819) - Carrying out the steps necessary to appropriately manufacture correct parts. This includes designing application, product hardware, mold, casting, mechanical, and electrical aspects of the product.
      • 2.3.1.8.2 - Design for product servicing (16820) - Creating product application service view to allow for product servicing and refurbishing.
      • 2.3.1.8.3 - Design for re-manufacturing (16821) - Replacing core components and republishing.
      • 2.3.1.8.4 - Review product troubleshooting methodology (16822) - Reviewing the design and approach for troubleshooting the product.
      • 2.3.1.8.5 - Design and manage product data, design, and bill of materials (16818) - Designing the BOM-Bill of material, manufacturing BOM and Service BOMA bill of materials list for all the raw materials and components/parts used in the producing end product.
      • 2.3.1.8.6 - Design for product upgrades (16823) - Designing hardware and software upgrade techniques.
    • 2.3.1.9 - Build prototypes/proof of concepts (10088) - Building prototypes for shortlisted product/service concepts. Develop prototypes for those product/service concepts that have been identified for further development. Provide proof-of-concepts, and test any processes involved. Build prototypes in line with the design specifications already outlined. Enlist the solutioning and/or design staff.
    • 2.3.1.10 - Develop and test prototype production and/or service delivery process (10098) - Creating the new manufacturing/delivery processes for the new products/services, and testing them to ensure proper functioning. Create the production/delivery process for the prototypes that have been built for the new products/services. Conduct trial-runs to test these processes and their integration with the organization's other processes.
    • 2.3.1.11 - Eliminate quality and reliability problems (10089) - Eliminating any problems relating to utility of the product/service over the course of its expected lifetime. Tweak the prototype in order to comply with the required quality and reliability standards. Further refine the prototype, so it may be subjected to testing.
    • 2.3.1.12 - Conduct in-house product/service testing and evaluate feasibility (10090) - Carrying out an in-house appraisal of the prototypes in order to validate design and feasibility. Test the product/service prototypes to confirm their compliance with design and usability standards. Corroborate the viability of the design, and validate the feasibility of their production. Identify any areas for improvement.
    • 2.3.1.13 - Identify design/development performance indicators (10091) - Identifying performance parameters. Determine the parameters to measure performance of the design and development of the product/service concepts into prototypes.
    • 2.3.1.14 - Collaborate on design with suppliers and external partners (10092) - Interacting with suppliers and manufactures to determine design decisions. Collaborate with vendors, suppliers, contractors, and subcontractors to verify feasibility of co-producing the prototype's design. Ensure that efforts can be coordinated with other stakeholders in the organization's supply chain ecosystem at the time of manufacturing, producing, or packaging the finished product/service.
  • 2.3.2 - Test market for new or revised products and services (19996) - Expanding on the marketplace analysis that took place earlier in the product development lifecycle by testing the market against offerings. The results from this in-depth analysis will help the organization finalize product/service characteristics and technical requirements and also identify any needed changes in the manufacturing and delivery processes that support market delivery. To prepare a detailed market study that accounts for any changes in the global environment, the organization may want to conduct a series of interviews, workshops, and focus groups with potential and existing customers.
    • 2.3.2.1 - Prepare detailed market study (10093) - Composing a detailed study of the market ecosystem in light of new products/services. Conduct a detailed analysis of the targeted market(s) in order to Introduce new products/services [10077]. Examine the competition, market size and growth rate, market trends, customer segments and their characteristics, market influencers, distribution channels, and profitability. Enlist in-house marketing and/or solutioning teams, or outsource to specialized professional services agencies.
    • 2.3.2.2 - Conduct customer tests and interviews (10094) - Conducting both qualitative and quantitative studies to determine the fit between the newly developed products/services and the customers. Conduct external tests of the new product/service, and then refine them to maximize the customer uptake. Gather feedback from prospective customers and targeted populations by conducting surveys, focus groups, interviews, and detailed studies. Enlist professional services such as public relations or market research organizations.
    • 2.3.2.3 - Finalize product/service characteristics and business cases (10095) - Finalizing the characteristics of new products/services by appropriately weighing feedback from prospective customers against a cost-benefit analysis in order to produce a profitable business proposition. Refine the attributes of the newly developed products/services, in light of the feedback and insights collected during Conduct customer tests and interviews [10094]. Revisit the high-level business case to justify the resources assigned to the product/service project against the anticipated benefits.
    • 2.3.2.4 - Finalize technical requirements (10096) - Reassessing the technical requirements in light of the final product/service attributes. Revisit the technical assessment to revalidate the organization's capacity for progressing with new product/service projects, in light of the revised product/service characteristics.
  • 2.3.3 - Prepare for production/service delivery (19997) - Devising business plans and procedures for manufacturing/operations/production and delivery of services offered by the organization. Further in general terms the total amount of output that the manufacturing department is responsible to produce for each period.
    • 2.3.3.1 - Design and obtain necessary capabilities/materials and equipment (10099) - Developing and/or sourcing the essential machinery needed for creating purpose-built processes, as well as the raw materials, to produce the new products/services. Either design the equipment and materials needed internally, or source from external vendors. Obtain the feedstock or raw materials needed to prepare the finished products, as well as the machinery - hardware and software - needed to arrange production lines, factory operations, assemblies, and manufacturing processes. Revisit the technologies that underpin the new or revised products/services in order to source the right equipment and materials.
    • 2.3.3.2 - Identify requirements for changes to manufacturing/delivery processes (10097) - Identifying any changes that need to be effectuated in the organization's internal processes for manufacturing, and delivering the newly developed products/services. Determine if any changes need to be made to the production and distribution processes, in light of the new products/services. Begin production process planning. Prepare for factory layout planning. Generate shop-floor instructions and changes to the supply chain.
    • 2.3.3.3 - Request engineering/process change (11418) - Requesting changes in the production and/or delivery operations for processing the new or revised products/services. Rectify any problems identified in the manufacturing or delivery processes (through Monitor production runs [11417]). Seek changes in components, repair machinery, optimize production lines, and tweak factory assemblies through a formal notice to the concerned division, known as an engineering change order.
    • 2.3.3.4 - Install and validate production/service delivery process (10100) - Finalizing production process or methodology. Install and initiate the production process to manufacture the new products, using the equipment and machinery already assembled. In the case of new services, implement delivery processes and methodologies. Validate processes for the accuracy of their operation and proper functioning.
      • 2.3.3.4.1 - Monitor initial production runs (11417) - Regularly monitoring production runs of the production and/or delivery operations.
    • 2.3.3.5 - Validate launch procedures (19998) - Verifying the measures/processes/techniques through systems and tools involved in the introduction of products and services.