Rockford Motor System

Owned equipment and supplies are often in need of repair and staff sometimes fail to keep accurate inventory and order on time of need.

1. Failure to utilize LEAN manufacturing principles causing DEP to carry excess inventory: Inventory shortages which caused shutdowns leading to DEP to abandon LEAN principals look to be primarily driven by a lack of structured supplier management. Suppliers of key raw materials were selected based solely on price, with DEP neglecting the

This was a very poor and time-consuming process as the staff mostly spent time on the phone confirming and adjusting their orders with suppliers.

Poor communication between management – when the management didn’t communication with their employees it cause then to have low motivation, low loyalty, and high turnover because most of the employees didn’t know what to do or how to do it.

1. Identify four possible consequences of inadequate training or training that does not meet an organisation’s needs or requirements.

This solution will help in resolving problem related to lack of industrial knowledge of employees

Lack of funds can be due to many reasons, but a miscalculation of a program cost or incorrectly completing the budget report

On the contrary, if the employees being trained are not provided with resources, for instance, not enough software’s or computers were available for all the employees to train properly then the result might not be achieved as

The team who is currently in place lacks some knowledge in these skills. By combining the supervisor and existing employees

* The vehicles in the factory can’t be built efficiently by the operators as the correct numbers of tools are unavailable.

Weekly meetings: To focus on quality, productivity and scrap related issues on a continuous basis. Continuous improvement and feed back mechanism moved process towards zero defect philosophy. The functions of tracking defects are mostly automated. This gave workers and managers enough time and resources to work on improving action, innovation and quality.

Secondly, the organized training program should include some important parts such as plant operations, communication between managers and the union workers, teamwork, and management education. All the employees from foremen to managers should join the training program. After the organized training program, there must be a refresher training course every half or one year to make sure employees’ knowledge is the latest. In the process of training program, Ashley needs to collect feedback from the foremen and supervisors so that she

Furthermore, spoiled work, damages, and accidents to equipment and machinery can be kept to a minimum by well trained employees, continued training helps employees develop their ability to learn by adapting themselves to new work methods, learning to use new kinds of equipment, and adjusting to major changes in work relationships and job content, also, through training, new employees learn to measure up to standards for performance, thereby satisfying their human need for personal growth and increasing their value to the organisation (Pigors and Myers 1977).

There were times, when management ignored questions as well as finding ways of problem solving techniques. This allowed associates, and other lower level management to become clueless on certain operations. At times there are some managers that sincerely cared about, the growth/development of others. The lack of training hurts the product of, which is displayed on quality leadership and lack of concern for consumers. In the grand scheme of things, it becomes equally importation educating associates about products, which are presented too customers. This should provide sources of adequate solutions for growth and

For example: The financials could not coordinate with the procurement team to plan out purchases as per the availability of money.