Shiroki North America
2015 Annual Purchasing Policy
Priority Items for Parts and Materials
Cost Reduction
Continue to enhance collaborations with SNA Purchasing through APR to improve your company’s global competitive level for future & current vehicle and unit programs by utilizing the following tools:
Kaizen
Reduction in Standardized time
• Eliminate waste “MUDA”
• Bench Mark Set-up times and Improve
• Verify Gage / Fixtures and Shipping Containers
Utilize process KPI benchmarking and problem solving to improve your company’s cost structure.
• Risk Management
• Comprehensive PDCA for incident prevention
• Baseline for incident problem solving
“Where did it fail?”
Increase localization to improve competitive level and reduce dependence on imported components and material.
Tooling Cost Reduction
• Achieve Global best competitive level via:
• Point of origin optimization
• Tool design structure kaizen
• Enhanced Simultaneous Engineering
Annual Price Review (APR)
• Maintain and improve global competitive level utilizing global concepts and lean manufacturing improvements.
Value Engineering (VE)
Design recommendations
• Alternate material, shape change
• Tolerance allowances
• Packaging change etc…