The 12 steps to Lean Cost Reduction

Lean Cost Reduction is a 12 Step process to reduce your costs.  Like any improvement, there is a standard process to follow to make a change.  Skipping these steps by jumping ahead or by just setting cost goals will not work.

The 12 Steps to Lean Cost Reduction:

1. What is the product?

2. What does it cost today?

3. How many components?

4. What does it do?

5. How many are required?

6. Which is the primary function of this product?

7. What else will it do?

8. What will that cost?

9. Which three of the alternative ways of doing the job show the greatest difference between “cost” and “use value”?

10. Which ideas are to be developed?

11. What other functions and specification features must we incorporate?

12. What do we need to do to sell our ideas and eliminate roadblocks to change?

These 12 Steps, if following systematically, will lead you to reduce your costs. 

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