I have chosen Kimberly Clark Corporation to analyze because they are “passionate about providing people with essentials for a better life by adding convenience to daily routines with some of the world 's most recognized products” and I have worked for them for over 15 years. KC has over 43,000 employees, 144 years in business, over $18 billion in sales and we hold the Number 1 and Number 2 brand shares in 80 countries. In addition to our world class manufacturing, we have donated $35 million in cash and products to charitable causes and continuously improve our sustainability. We have worldwide recognition with our brands; such as, Huggies, Kleenex, Scott, Kotex, Pull-Ups and Depends. Kimberly Clark also has a Professional division that deals
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Marketing sold the product; engineering began creating specifications to suite the customer desires without regard to raw material lead time and resource ability. Including production teams and potential vendors, we could have saved valuable time advising on the correct corrugate and finish. What, in writing, seems to be a simple miss; could have saved weeks’ time and money. Had the new product been designed with our current resources in mind, we would not have had a production lag with the manual process. I believe due to the flawed original design and the manual process we lost several weeks in production and rework that could have been avoided. After two weeks in production we were able to identify our issues and begin identifying waste. Bringing enough raw materials to the line for that day’s production freed up our lift drivers to put them on the line to erect cartons. Several attempts at running the cartons through the automated erector failed, we had to manually construct cartons however there was an older cartoner resource in inventory that could “stuff” the product into the carton that was already erected. This increased our production rate by 25%. The employees on the assembly line found several time savings configurations that were …show more content…
You would have highly skilled and experienced stakeholders that would know more about their particular field that you do. My leadership style should encourage team unity, internal strength and commitment. Once the project charter is set and objectives are defined; I would ensure my team had senior leadership support to be able to focus on our project as a priority in hopes to mitigate the overburden I mentioned before. Of course, I would lead by example in hopes to motivate my team, ensure they have work life balance and the drive to meet the project
Marketing sold the product; engineering began creating specifications to suite the customer desires without regard to raw material lead time and resource ability. Including production teams and potential vendors, we could have saved valuable time advising on the correct corrugate and finish. What, in writing, seems to be a simple miss; could have saved weeks’ time and money. Had the new product been designed with our current resources in mind, we would not have had a production lag with the manual process. I believe due to the flawed original design and the manual process we lost several weeks in production and rework that could have been avoided. After two weeks in production we were able to identify our issues and begin identifying waste. Bringing enough raw materials to the line for that day’s production freed up our lift drivers to put them on the line to erect cartons. Several attempts at running the cartons through the automated erector failed, we had to manually construct cartons however there was an older cartoner resource in inventory that could “stuff” the product into the carton that was already erected. This increased our production rate by 25%. The employees on the assembly line found several time savings configurations that were …show more content…
You would have highly skilled and experienced stakeholders that would know more about their particular field that you do. My leadership style should encourage team unity, internal strength and commitment. Once the project charter is set and objectives are defined; I would ensure my team had senior leadership support to be able to focus on our project as a priority in hopes to mitigate the overburden I mentioned before. Of course, I would lead by example in hopes to motivate my team, ensure they have work life balance and the drive to meet the project