During the first quarter, Our CI team has continued to work hard to improve Argos’ day to day operations. The team’s efforts continue to gain momentum across Ready-mix, Cement and back office operations.
Already this year the team has been able to achieve several exciting accomplishments including:
Receiving Process Automations:
- Digital ticket receiving process is continuing to gain adoption and stands at 71% of the total tickets received
- Improvements are currently being deployed on manual receipt SAP transactions to increase standardization
RMX Month end inventory improvements:
- Training completed for all in-scope RMX locations in the new MB5B inventory worksheet that facilitates and optimizes the month-end inventory adjustment process.
- For the month of April, all the in-scope locations will run the new process.
Driver Scheduling Optimizations:
- A analytics-based scheduling and optimization solution has been developed working with select Atlanta market dispatchers
- We are currently piloting and testing the capabilities prior to implementation across RMX sites.
E-Truck Roll-out:
- Already addend in RDU Pre and Post inspection (DVIR) to the functionalities of turn-by-turn navigation, Auto-status capture in Command, GPS tracking and Radio
- All set up to start before end of April with Pre and Post inspection (DVIR) in JAX.
- Integration with Kronos in progress expected to be finish and in testing mode by mid May.
CPQ Improvements:
- Discovery work shops completed for CPQ process and 10+ major improvements were identified.
- We have engaged with a CPQ vendor to begin execution of improvements to the tool which will benefit the Sales team.
The Continuous Improvement team are gearing up to kick-off a new project – Cement Set Aside Improvement at the end of April. We ensure to keep you up to date on this new project. Thanks for your continued support and encouragement. Please feel free to reach out to Alex Diez from the CI Office in case you have any questions or would like to get involved in the CI Program.
