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Post-Site Audit Installation

This document is used to go through each department on a plant visit or for the plant to fill conduct themselves prior a visit.

Please take time to talk to each team and document their concerns as most of the time their concerns will have or are part of cascading effects from or to other departments. 

Instruction

You will have to download this document and fill out ALL sections and we will re-upload it if we are taking on your project which we will add to our project planning area HERE.

Introduction

This section is to learn more about what was installed at the plant when the systems were introduced:

System aka's Name Yes/No
CSC Corrugator Control Scheduling
SCS Supply Chain Simulator
PCS Production Control System
ESP Enterprise Sales Processing
ULT Unit Load Tracking
VUE PCS Visual GUI version of Production Control System
VUE CSC Visual GUI version of Corrugator Control Scheduling
VUE ULT Visual GUI version of Unit Load Tracking
KDW Kiwiplan Data Warehouse



Fact Finding Mission

Overview

The mission of the document is to make sure that the processes that are used at the plant are adaptable to the Kiwiplan system suit of the MAP/MES and ESP systems. 

Overview Questions:
What system did the plant use before the installation 
Was there use of spreadsheet before the installation
What was the driver to change the system for the plant


Business Flow Charts

Do you have any workflow to provide us that are like this from your old or new processes:

Estimating

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Ordering

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Other Core Systems

This section is for any other systems that complement the Kiwiplan systems.

Do you have a unitizing system for optimizing stacking
Do you have a CAD system for creating products
What is your accounting software


 

Specific Workflows

The section is if you have any workflows that complement the corrugated processes within your plan.





 

Product Design / Estimating / Costing Processes

This section is to explain the process from the point of creating a product specification, its routing, its costing and finally its pricing.

We need a detailed process explanation or flow chart to tell us how this works at the plant. 

You can have a look at our costing model that we usually configure at our customer plants/corporation:

Click HERE

Creating Product

What is the process used to create your product and which department is creating.

Setting Degrade Rules

This is crucial to have implemented degrade rules from a costing leveling perspective to the routing perspective. This allows you to consistently cost at the same level but be able to send more accurate run speeds to production to keep a good production level. 

Machine# Detailed Degrade Rules Set Y/N (Y for detailed N for Standards Only)






Creating Routing

What is the process used to create your routing for the product and which department is creating.

Creating Estimating

What is the process used to create your cost estimate based on the routing and the product and which department is creating.

Creating Pricing

What is the process used to create your pricing based on the costing and product information and which department is creating.

 

Roll Stock

This section is to explain the process from the ordering of the rolls to receiving them into your own warehouse. 

Please fill out the table below to know how your plant currently functions with your warehouses.

Owned/Leased Name Consignment Y/N EDI Y/N








       

Production

This section is to explain the process of placing the order in the ESP system and getting the BOB (Book on Blue) date with the use of loadings and degrade rules if any are set.

Please specify if you send some work out to get farm out and what that process looks like.

Please specify if you are in the horticulture segment of the industry and what that process looks like. 

Printing Plates

This section is to explain if you create, purchase or destroy your tooling and what is its process on a daily bases.

How do you manage your Printing Plates:

Purchasing
Rotations
Discarding
Die Cut Dies

This section is to explain if you create, purchase or destroy your tooling and what is its process on a daily bases.

How do you manage your Cutting Dies:

Purchasing
Rotations
Discarding

 

Customer Service Department

 

Finance Department

Logistic Department

Quality Department

Integrations (Interfaces)

Summary Notes

Document Revision History

Date

Version

Document

Created / Modified

Comments

08.11.2018

1.0

Kiwiplan Site Audit

Steve Ling

 Creation

02.07.2025

1.1

Added to the docs site for ease of sharing

Steve Ling