Productivity Improvement Program
What is a Productivity Improvement Program?
Productivity is a measure of how efficiently a person completes a task. Productivity Improvement is the process of achieving more output from an hour of work. The focus of productivity improvement is to increase optimal performance by reducing waste and focusing on customer-driven, value-added activities.
Employee productivity improves more when workers are in alignment with their corporate culture; when they feel safe, rewarded and appreciated. A proven way to achieve increased productivity is through an effective Productivity Improvement Program.
A Productivity Improvement Program (PIP), also referred to as a Labor Management Program or a Workforce Optimization Program, is a proven labor management solution that addresses many of the challenges of managing today’s workforce. A PIP is the most effective way to unlock workforce potential and realize sustainable workforce optimization.
A Labor Management Program is the most effective way to realize sustainable workforce optimization. An effective Labor Management Program can reduce labor cost while decreasing employee turnover by enabling management to invest in the workforce and maximize productivity.
The program combines four operational initiatives to optimize workforce performance and establish a culture of accountability.
- Best Methods: A systematic approach for performing work that results in maximum output with the least down-time, at the lowest possible cost.
- Standards/Goals: Provide the ability to accurately track productivity and hold associates and management accountable for their work.
- Labor Management System: A system to capture, track, analyze and report progress against performance measurements.
- Performance Coaching: A method to provide feedback and training focused on improving productivity by helping associates become successful.
Argent Global Services are experts in labor management, and we utilized our extensive engineering and operational experience to develop, implement and training programs for our customers.
What are the Benefits of a Productivity Improvement Program?
Managers will gain knowledge of methods and visibility of their operation that only this type of program can provide. An effective PIP typically establishes individual accountability, enables management to invest in workforce training and development, and fosters a culture of continuous improvement.
By providing management with key labor performance and utilization metrics, the program will:
- Maximize workforce potential,
- Improve communication,
- Increase management floor presence,
- Provide the ability to accurately forecast and plan labor needs,
- Improve labor management,
- Increase productivity/operational efficiency,
- Decrease employee turnover, and
- Reduce labor cost.
What does Argent Offer?
Argent can provide comprehensive labor management services to assist clients in achieving their performance improvement, productivity, and cost reduction objectives. Argent engineers are productivity improvement experts. We have over 35 years of engagement experience upon which to draw to create a best-in-class productivity improvement/labor management solutions and strategies for our clients.
Argent’s methods, based on Industrial Engineering and Lean principles, help your organization identify obstacles and roadblocks that negatively impact your current productivity and quality.
We leverage our expertise to find the best solutions to enable clients to achieve sustainable results. We provide services, such as operational assessments, improved space utilization, continuous improvement tools and a comprehensive Productivity Improvement Program (PIP) that has been successfully implemented in several operations.
Argent offers development and implementation support for a comprehensive Productivity Improvement Program designed to achieve significant results from the synergy of four initiatives that optimize workforce performance and establish a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
- Best Practices: A systematic approach for performing work that results in maximum output with the least down-time, at the lowest possible cost.
- Engineered Labor Standards: Provide the ability to accurately track productivity and hold associates and management accountable.
- Labor Management System: Software to capture, track, analyze and report progress against established performance measurements. The system will help organizations by providing business analytics to improve employee productivity and utilization.
- Performance Coaching: A method to provide feedback and training focused on improving productivity by helping associates become successful.
Argent has developed a proprietary Labor Management System (LMS), VantageRPM. The system provides strong operational visibility and gets results. Ease of implementation and ease of use make VantageRPM an obvious choice for Argent clients. VantageRPM is supported by Argent’s full suite of services and has proven to be a more effective solution when compared to other LMS products in the market.