2021-08-16 First kick-off

see slide deck

Objectives & success criteria:

• Stock reduction:
  • Total value and Days of coverage → target reduction of 25% (minimum = 15%)
  • Décolletage (Bar turning): 7.3 mCHF of stock with 72 days of coverage → target: 50 days
  • Cadrans (Dials): 4 mCHF of stock with 55 days of coverage → target: 40 days

  Boris: "We know -25% is possible based on different studies we did."

• Stock-outs:
  • Currently not tracked by Cartier - expectation to maintain high material availability
  • Sometimes supply gets directly forwarded without being booked into inventory → looks like stock-out but is not.

• Time efficiency: Hard metrics difficult to track → Time for different planning steps currently performed quarterly (planner currently spends 50-60% of time on planning tasks) → the plan is to move from monthly planning to weekly planning

• Metrics will be tracked and reviewed during project phase until March 2022 (no backward simulation planned)

• ROI assessment would be interesting but getting clear picture of al costs is tricky

• Fiscal year from April to March

• Metrics are currently collected daily but reported monthly to management

• Boris is considering to track the amount of alerts from Flowlity as a metrics

• Planning Clinic showed that mature and ramp-down products were good but spare parts and ramp-up did not show such strong performance → to be special focus in project phase.

  Boris: "I would like to understand how you are using the MRP output in your ML."

  

Timeline

• Go/No-Go in March

• Live testing as long as possible:

  Phase 1 with 30 products go live in October

  Phase 2 with full scope of 1000 products go live in December

• Not 100% clear how much change management for the suppliers is required when moving to weekly planning

Scope

• 2 product families, purchased only → all use supplier quotas
  • Décolletage (Bar turning): Total of 800 products
  • Cadrans (Dials): Total of 200 products

• 2 planners: Amélie and Bérangère

• Florence is the manager of Amélie - not part of the direct project team

Data & IT

• Bertrand will take care of data extraction, he is part of local IT team → possible meeting with Flowlity data engineering next week

• Open discussion: Do we integrate SAP tables or Flowlity general data tables?