Reducing Process Costs with Lean, Six Sigma, and Value Engineering Techniques

CHAPTER 13 – Finding Cost Reductions

I. Rubric for Finding Cost Reductions

II. Questions to Ponder

• How can we create a hierarchical map that will help our employees look high and low for cost reductions?

• Will the organization chart help us in the sense that we can look for savings in discrete departments?

• How do we account for cost with a process enhancement?

• Why is accounting sometimes not the best department to use in the search for ...