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IMP-03 — WASTE REDUCTION

Eight wastes. Hunted in dollars.

Overproduction, waiting, transport, over-processing, inventory, motion, defects, unused talent — hunted systematically across the operation and costed in dollars so the priority order argues for itself. The savings usually fund the engagement inside the first quarter.

WHAT YOU GET

The deliverables, plainly.

W-01
Waste walk & costing

Every waste sighted is logged with a dollar figure — conservative, defensible, from your own numbers.

W-02
Pareto & priority

The classic result: three wastes carry 70% of the cost. Those three get the attention.

W-03
Countermeasures that stick

Fixes designed with the crew, standardised, and tracked on a visible board until the saving is banked.

SEQUENCE — HOW IT RUNS
STEP 01
Waste walk

Structured observation across every process, with the people in it.

STEP 02
Cost & rank

The waste register, in dollars, ranked.

STEP 03
Attack the top three

Rapid cycles on the biggest lines first.

STEP 04
Bank & hold

Savings verified on the P&L meter and locked in standard work.

TYPICAL ENGAGEMENT
3–6 weeks
WHERE IT FITS
When margin is leaking and nobody can say where
OUTPUT
Costed waste register, countermeasures, banked savings
Q&A

Loaded labour rate × observed hours, extrapolated conservatively — then discounted again. The register understates deliberately; credibility is worth more than a bigger number.

Yes — scoped on a call, quoted fixed in writing. Improvement engagements also state the meter we'll measure the gain on, so success is defined before we start.

NEXT STEP

Put a number on the constraint.

A thirty-minute call, the meter agreed, and a fixed-price engagement in writing.

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