RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN THE MILL, A essential step to maximize PROFITS
The mill today is first and foremost a business. The labor intensive and condensed in a few months, can lead to errors and frequent eroding margins, they can also cause losses in yields, problems with customers, decrease plant efficiency
(February 10, 2007 TN 5 Year 5)
The activity of the miller is often complementary to other, for life and importance, are perhaps considered prevalenti.In fact, those few months work, we can derive a significant income if you are operating a proper management of all resources, achieving maximum efficiency from every input. Like any other business enterprise requires a careful control of all variables which affect the final profit or loss.
These are essentially:
- Human resources
- management of machines and their eventual size
- customer relations, the relationship between price and performance / services
analysis of human resources
mill are usually in more than one figure. There the miller of course, seen as one who is responsible for managing and maintaining the machines, but also administrative staff in charge of billing records and the various figures and then some "wild cards" that serve as forklifts, involved the weighing of olive oil and delivery, to assist any other customer needs, as well as help the miller in cleaning and maintenance. It is noted that the workforce is often poorly used, or being too large or too small compared to the real needs that are measured in terms of efficiency of oil machines and customer satisfaction.
Manage shifts, depending on the presumed workloads, both daily and long weeks of olive processing, can help to optimize the work of staff, possibly saving work units.
Machine Management
A fallowing is considered, rightly, one of the worst disasters. In fact means an increase in stocks, resulting in customer dissatisfaction, loss of working days and income, costing the riparazione.Quello instead spent is not sufficiently considered is the efficiency of the system, understood as the ability to exploit the machines to the limit of their potential value. Arrive at a given efficiency can be relatively simple, just use the formula: potential plant (Cwt / hr) / milling actually made (cwt / hr), can get more complex to analyze in detail the reasons for the failure to exploit the system, however, due to under-sizing of some machine errors or inaccuracies-lax-management . In this sense, can be beneficial, possibly, a comparison of the relative efficiency of homogeneous two lines, if any.
Similarly, an analysis of the efficiency of the system can be beneficial depending on the number of games worked and the amount of olives per game average. Not least, finally, especially in terms of customer pressure, to have data average about their performance in yield per day, per customer, per game and grinding line. Interfacing and interfacing these data, even when they have also a historian, is easier and more plausible, even if called upon to provide technical assistance, identify the anomaly and find a solution.
Customer Relations
know in detail its customers is the foundation of every activity. Not even to this rule survives the mill, which should know and be able to divide its customers depending on the tonnage milled, the milling of the number of sales generated, and as interesting for the mill buyer, the quantity and quality of oil offered. You will be able to generate classes of customers, divided according to various parameters, which offer and provide specialized services, having a priori clear about the costs and, also, the income generated. You can generate simulations on the economic impact from the different pricing policies on specific classes of customers, thus avoiding even "harmful" because indiscriminate and not argue, price revisions.
operations described herein may mainly attributable to an activity reporting.Tale employment, of course, takes time and resources which are often invaluable in the few months of hard work of the miller, already burdened by numerous papers. However, in an Italian dominated by fierce competition, the search for an adequate return can not pass rising energy at the end of slaughter in operating costs, and offer targeted services and useful to its customers. To achieve this it is imperative to investigate, on the basis of numbers such objective data, identify critical issues and intervene selectively and in a targeted way. Essential steps to maximize profits.
