What Is a Proposal Evaluation?

Proposal improvement ^[1] activity is to systematically guide employees at all levels to continuously improve the relationship between "people-to-people", "things-to-things" and "people-to-things" through lean management concepts and IE methods under the framework of corporate development strategy. Realize the growth of personal quality and work performance, and promote innovation in business management, technology and business models. Let professionals and non-professionals, people with high abilities, and people with low abilities submit forms such as "question tickets", "proposal cards", or "proposal improvement plans", etc. Everyone can feel a sense of accomplishment.

Proposals to improve

Dai Zuohui, with 15 years of lean production management experience, has been the director of the CNC processing plant for Apple products of Foxconn Technology Group, and is currently the CEO assistant and general manager of the production management division of Hengan Group.

Management style: Good at taking the cost-leading strategy as the guide, introducing value engineering through IE (industrial engineering), mobilizing all employees to eliminate all waste, and implementing "best quality", "best delivery time", "highest efficiency" and "Minimum cost" production management of "three highs and one low" dynamic value stream.

1872: Mr. Krupp proposes to improve management concepts;

1894: National Computer Corporation's application proposal improvement (the first documented test proposal system);

1918: The US Navy establishes a complete proposal improvement system;

1942: The National Proposal Association is established, and the proposal system is widely used in American enterprises;

1945: Proposal to improve the system from the United States Air Force to Japan;

1951: Based on the Ford proposal system, the Japanese Toyota Corporation established an "improvement proposal" improvement proposal system, which became an important part of Toyota's production method

1965: Taiwan introduced a Japanese-style proposal improvement system, combined with the QCC, to form an important improvement tool.

As a result, the proposal improvement is gradually applied to most global manufacturing companies, forming an important management tool.

Since China's reform and opening up, as most companies have grown in size and management has matured, proposals to improve this management tool have also been adopted by most companies. It plays a significant role in improving efficiency, reducing costs, optimizing quality, and inspiring morale, and is of great significance to improving the market competitiveness of enterprises.

(I) Features of American proposal:

1. Focus on improving efficiency;

2. Focus on innovation and invention, with few participants and mostly professional talents;

3. Big investment and generous rewards;

4. Focus on improvement of major issues.

(II) Features of Japanese-style proposals:

1. Pay attention to full participation;

2. Focus on improvement, focus on small improvements, and gradually accumulate improvement results;

3. Small investment and small reward amount;

4. Full participation, individual or team to solve problems at work, and form a continuous improvement corporate culture.

(3) References of Chinese enterprises:

Most companies adopt Japanese-style proposals, encouraging all employees to participate in improvement, start with the small things around them, and make improvements in order to form a continuous improvement corporate culture atmosphere.

"Proposal Improvements-Fuel Accelerators for Cost Leadership Strategy" ^[1]

(I) Purpose of the proposal improvement

The purpose of the proposal improvement activities is to allow enterprises to improve through all the staff, and make all the hard, difficult, and know-how work that requires talents to be competent, and must be trained to be competent. The work that can only be done by a veteran or a professional can become a simple task that anyone can do and anyone can do right away. Thereby further improving the performance levels of KPI indicators such as "efficiency", "cost", "delivery", "quality", "safety" and "morale", to achieve faster, better and safer earning more profits To promote the improvement of market competitiveness of enterprises.

(B) the role of proposal improvement

1. Allow enterprises to establish a sense of crisis and risk;

2. Solve relevant problems in production or work, make product quality more stable, and enhance market brand image;

3. Improve the company's performance by improving the operation process, improving efficiency and lowering costs;

4. Conducive to strengthening employees' ability to work on the job;

5. After promotion and copying of excellent improvement cases, the promotion benefits can be increased;

6. Promote the improvement ability and awareness of employees, cultivate the habit of thinking, which is beneficial to the development of employees' capabilities;

7. It can provide a platform for employees to exert their wisdom and creativity, and inspire employees to improve and be motivated;

8. Conducive to helping employees establish quality awareness and problem awareness;

9. Conducive to creating a safe and comfortable working environment and increasing employees' willingness to work;

10. Create a continuously improving corporate culture atmosphere and so on.

What is a proposal

The "proposal" is a process of encouraging all employees of the company to actively identify problems, give play to original ideas, and propose innovative improvement suggestions while doing their jobs.

This is shown in Figure 3-1.

What is improvement

"Change" means "change" and "correction". Unwilling to change, everything is empty talk and empiricism, and the chance of making mistakes will increase. People will have emotional fluctuations, feeling better, because they are familiar, so do better; when the mood is not good, no matter how familiar you are, it is easy to make mistakes. Therefore, we must constantly change the way, methods, means and thinking of doing things, simplify, prevent dullness and prevent mistakes.

"Good" means "good," "better," and "satisfactory." Satisfaction is to satisfy the public and the company, not to satisfy yourself, or to feel good about yourself.

Therefore, the definition of "improvement" is: the process of correcting or adjusting things or actions in a good direction through "choice of means" or "change of methods" in pursuit of faster, better, and more concise work goals. Improvement must meet the two conditions of "selection of means" or "change of methods". Otherwise, it is not called improvement, it is called correction of errors.

Figure 3-2 "Improvement" definition diagram.

Of course, the ultimate goal of improvement is to make better money. Based on the actual situation of various enterprises, the requirements cannot be raised too high at a very poor stage. As long as you can continue to do better than the current situation and can greatly improve the benefits, you can temporarily default to "improvement" and give certain rewards.

What is proposal improvement

Proposal improvement is to continuously improve or break through the KPI performance, encourage all employees to participate and brainstorm, guide each employee to do their own job, and at the same time, to solve the problems existing in the work, put forward original ideas, and propose innovative improvements. Or improvement methods, organize team resources to implement improvements, and verify, evaluate and predict the improvement process and results.

This is shown in Figure 3-3.

Therefore, the proposal improvement activities are for professional and unprofessionals, capable and unskilled people to submit "question tickets", "proposal cards" or "proposal improvement plans", and after the team evaluates, Investigate the reasons, discuss countermeasures, coordinate resources, organize implementation, and continuously track and summarize the process of phased improvement. "Proposal improvement" is a verb.

This is shown in Figure 3-4.

What is an improvement proposal

The improvement proposal refers to the summary report of the improvement process of the proposal that has achieved improvement results and has been closed. It is a complete case file report formed after the effective improvement is completed. For effective proposal improvement to be documented, promoted and replicated, it is necessary to form an improvement case report in the form of a "Proposal Improvement Report", so that those involved in the improvement have a sense of accomplishment, a basis for commendation and reward, and an overall Promote the replication effect. Proposal improvements above the second prize must form standardized document records such as PPT or video, and comprehensively explain the relevant improvement background, process description, effect evaluation, proposal level and award amount. So "improvement proposal" is a noun.

See Figure 3-5 Proposal Improvement Report.

What is a problem ticket

Someone asks, there are many employees, especially front-line employees, how can he not find the corresponding improvement methods in the problems encountered at hand? They can use the form of "problem tickets" to record the difficulties they encountered, the unhappiness they felt, and the discomfort they saw. You can't even write a hyphen, can you always say it? Submit it to your immediate supervisor. Relevant personnel who have the ability to improve, have a certain technical background, or have a management foundation can directly improve the problems you have raised. Then your work will be smooth, and you will not encounter the same problem next time.

Therefore, the "problem ticket" is to allow front-line operators (such as packagers, cleaners, porters, etc.) who have insufficient work experience, insufficient logical thinking ability, and weak writing ability to integrate daily work and life. Or find out the problems, difficulties and upsets, and actively feedback them, and submit them to the team to discuss ways to improve the feedback. This also mobilized a channel for all staff to participate in the proposal improvement activities.

This is shown in Figure 3-6.

What is a proposal card

The "Proposal Card" goes one step further than the "Question Ticket". Encourage all employees to encounter problems, find problems, think about the reasons, think about how to improve, write mature improvement methods and methods in the form of "proposal cards", and submit them to the team for evaluation and implementation. Therefore, the "Proposal Card" is to allow employees at all levels with rich work experience, strong logical thinking ability and a certain writing ability to actively analyze the problems, difficulties and upsets encountered or found in daily work and life, and analyze the reasons. 3. Put forward innovative improvement opinions or improvement methods, and submit the team to arrange the implementation of improvement suggestions as appropriate. The "Proposal Card" is the basis for mobilizing all members to participate in proposal improvement activities.