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Theory of Constraints, Critical Chain Project Management, Lean : industry consulting & training - Marris Consulting
Accelerate New Product Industrialization of pharmaceutical drugs
Context
Our client, a multinational company that develops and produces new drugs, wanted to accelerate the introduction phase in their new product development projects.
Dedicated production slots for projects are anticipated and scheduled well in advance, thus even slight delays in projects lead to disorganized planning, as the same production lines are used not only for serial production, but also for other projects.
Because of the rush in which they regularly find themselves, project teams often finish projects with difficulty, sometimes compromising on document quality.
Objectives
- Reducing project duration.
- Improving and securing schedules.
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Enhancing management routines (project and portfolio).
Approach
- Training all teams in Critical Chain Project Management.
- Transformatino of the schedules and their use: from schedules used for management control to schedules focused on the end date, taking into account resource capacity.
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Modification of the routines: from routines to report delays to routines to anticipate upcoming activities, in particular to ensure the full-kit before handover, and to work on buffer recovery solutions.
Results
- The pilot projects were completed on time.
- The teams and the management have regained confidence in the schedules.
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A larger-scale deployment of the Critical Chain method across NPI portfolio and the other project portfolios.
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About Marris Consulting
Marris Consulting is an industry consulting and training company specialized in the Theory of Constraints (ToC) and Critical Chain Project Management. We focus on improving the performance of manufacturing and process industries by using Constraints Management combined with Lean and Six Sigma. To boost project performance, we also use Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM), which we sometimes combine with Lean Engineering. Our 2-day performance audits, our performance consulting services and our project management, Lean, ToC & CCPM training by our industry consultants offer a wide range of solutions to help our clients around the world reach the highest possible levels of performance.