A major objective of a business can be stated as securing profits both in the present and the future. The manner in which a business accomplishes this is to provide customer satisfaction, furnish reliable products and services at a reasonable price and cost, and quality and features consistent with or exceeding the customer's expectations. Today's accounting systems are inadequate to provide information required to meet and support these objectives.
Traditional accounting methods are not acceptable when developing and implementing a lean manufacturing enterprise. (In fact, they may be unacceptable for any manufacturing environment.) When implementing lean principles the entire landscape of the business enterprise changes. In order to support lean concepts, accounting procedures must change. The information needs for the lean environment are completely different than for traditional manufacturing. In a lean operation, physical attributes become increasingly more important and the information supporting the operation becomes directly associated with the physical actions of the operation.
With the operational control of traditional accounting gone, the manufacturing shop still needs measures in order to maintain operational excellence and understand where steps must be taken to sustain flow, delivery, quality, and a robust factory - or enable customer satisfaction. The measurements used are simple, straightforward, and easily understood by all participants in the operation. This is something that traditional accounting measures cannot claim.
LeanTrack
- An innovative lean tool created for shop floor personnel, managers,
accountants and executives. Utilizing True North Metrics and the Box Score
Card’s basic metrics in relation to performance targets visually brings to life
your companies lean implementation success. LeanTrack utilizes simple daily
data common to all companies creating graphic charts for displaying. Truly a
must have lean tool.
To view some of the benefits of LeanTrack, click
here for the HTML version or
here for the PDF version.
Screen shot of Box Score Daily Grid
Daily Box Score Report.
