Walking Tour in B&C SPEAKERS

Bonfiglioli Consulting e Confindustria Florence Training, as part of the partnership established for the dissemination of Lean Thinking techniques and practices, are organizing at B&C Speakers a meeting open to interested companies at which participants will be able to directly verify the effectiveness of lean management disciplines .

This is an excellent opportunity to explore, in the concrete reality of the company, how a Lean approach can increase the overall effectiveness of the company's actions, improving its competitiveness and entrepreneurial success. We talk about it with entrepreneur and CEO of B&C Speakers Lorenzo Coppini, the director of stably Niccolò Gatti and the consultants of Bonfiglioli Consulting who accompanied the company in the Lean transfomation process.

Since October 2016, Bonfiglioli Consulting has partnered with B&C Speakers in a Lean Transformation process that has led the company to take action on:

• Process Quality Improvement Through a reduction in noncompliance and an increase in first-time vouchers
  
  Main activities carried out
  –  Design of the data collection system integrated with the management system
  - Development of skills and standardized models of problem solving
  - Implementation of flash meetings for the implementation of countermeasures against major leakage analysis
  Main achievements
  –  Good at the first shot (2016 - 2018)
  - Speaker Family: 87% -> 93%
  - Driver Family: 73% -> 79%
  - Countermeasures implemented from 2016 to the present
  - Quick win: 112
  - Kaizen concluded (PDCA): 30
• Optimization of Supply Chains: Simplification of the supply chain planning and management system through:Main activities carried out
  - Activation of lean materials management policies (kanban) on a pilot supply chain, including defining aspects of supply agreements and contracts
  - Creation and activation of electronic kanban integrated with the management system
  - Implementation of Advanced Supplier Monitoring Dashboard
  The supply chains project is currently underway and aims to reduce up to 50% the spaces and stock value of the supplier involved in the pilot.

The Walking Tour is free of charge and is exclusively for entrepreneurs and managers; a maximum of two participants per company are allowed. To register, fill out the online form by January 23, 2019, the company reserves the right to confirm enrollment.

B&C Speakers is an Italian company, founded in 1946 that operates internationally taking care of the design, production, distribution and marketing of electroacoustic transducers for professional use. In addition to designing and distributing B&C brand components, the company also supplies OEM components.

Confindustria Firenze Formazione is the training agency of Confindustria Firenze and acts as a business improver for companies through the promotion, design and management of customized training courses, in line with the needs of companies that need to quickly adapt the skills of their employees to a complex and constantly changing market.