Just in time Balanced Scorecard Metrics

In today-s competitive business environment, quality is not the only thing that matters. Superior quality at minimum costs is what customers demand. To decrease costs, manufacturing firms have to minimize their expenditures in every field. To do so, Just in Time philosophy is just best for them. This philosophy aims at reducing costs by manufacturing and delivering goods in right quantity and at the right time. KPIs can help a lot in determining which processes support Just in time manufacturing.

Financial perspective helps to determine the various costs and savings involved in Just in Time Manufacturing processes. It consists of KPIs like total cost savings, % material cost reduction, % increase in revenues, savings in inventory carrying costs and decrease in scrap and re-work costs.

Operational Efficiency includes the measures helps in judging the efficiency of manufacturing operations of the company. The KPIs for this perspective are number of on time deliveries, % decrease in scraps and reworks, % increase in productivity and first-pass yield rates.

Internal process perspective serves as an effective measure to implement the planning of processes in such a way so as to keep the inventory of raw material, work in progress and finished goods to the minimum. The KPIs are reduction in idle time, % manufacturing cycle time reduction, % increase in inventory turns and % reduction in supplier lead times.

Learning and innovation perspective consists of measures that help in evaluation of new techniques and tools used to improve manufacturing processes. It includes KPIs as number of new/automated machines, number of training sessions and number of meetings of workforce and % reduction in new product introduction rate.

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How to measure Manufacturing performance with Just in time Scorecard for Excel

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Just in time Estimation Balanced Scoreboard Screenshots

Metrics for Manufacturing Estimation. This is the actual scorecard with Just in time Dashboard and performance indicators. The performance indicators include: financial perspective,total cost savings,% material costs reduction,% increase in revenues,savings in inventory carrying costs,% decrease in scrap and re-work costs,operational efficiency,number of on-time deliveries,% decrease in scraps and reworks,% increase in productivity,first-pass yield rates,internal processes perspective,reduction in idle time,% manufacturing cycle time reduction,% increase in inventory turns,% reduction in supplier lead times,learning and innovation perspective,number of new/automated machines deployed,number of training sessions,number of process meetings of workforce,% reduction in new production introduction rate . Right now you can download trial version of Just in time Dashboard or purchase full version of this Balanced Scorecard.

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