Secora Lean Implementation Methodology
SLIM makes your business more effective and cost efficient.
SLIM provides an effective way to reduce operational waste, save time and costs and utilize valuable resources to capacity.

SLIM methodology addresses the following types of waste:
  • Transportation
  • Inventory
  • Motion
  • Waiting (Time in queue)
  • Overproduction
  • Overprocessing
  • Defects (Scrap, rework and inspection)
  • Lost opportunity
SLIM enterprise extends this concept through the entire value stream or supply chain: A highly optimized factory cannot achieve its full potential if it has to work with non-SLIM customers, suppliers, subcontractors, administration and infrastructure.

Secora will teach employees and managers alike to identify waste and non value added activities.  The Secora SLIM methodologies include traditional tools such as Value Stream Mapping which make waste visible to all process stakeholders, highlighting problems such as bottlenecks, inventories and hidden factories.

Whether in an industrial or transactional environment, Secora consultants will get their hands dirty working with the people who actually do the job. Only this way can the real facts be gathered and the correct improvement steps implemented.  Through multi-level practical involvement, Secora enables and encourages employees to continuously improve their business processes.

What Makes a Good Project Charter?

The main output of the define phase within the DMAIC methodology is the project charter. Without having a completed project charter starting the measure phase makes little sense. Even so the DMAIC methodology gives us our project path, the project charter is responsible for where the path is to lead us.
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Case Study - End to End Preparation of Tax Returns

A Kaizen (Continuous improvement) initiation project was led by Secora from September 2007 until December 2007 at one of the ‘big 4’ accounting companies in Sydney, Australia. The project reviewed the firm’s process for the completion of international tax returns.
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Case Study - Logistics

Secora was engaged by a major logistics organisation to review and optimize the business processes surrounding the management of third party contractors within its IT Department.
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