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What plant leadership looks at in LeanSuite: the goals, the tier boards, the escalations and the approvals.

Written by Angad Singh

What plant leadership and department heads look at in LeanSuite, and the two things only you can do: clear the escalations and approve the requests.

Who this is for: Plant managers, department heads and anyone who sits at Tier 2 or Tier 3.

Before you start: Your admin has added you to your tier and given you approval rights in Projects.

Time: 5 minutes a day, 20 minutes for the weekly review.

Every day

  1. See the escalations: the issues escalated to your tier and the project requests waiting for your approval, in one pass from Home.

    Home with the Waiting for your approval counter
  2. Read the board: the Tier 2 and Tier 3 boards show the KPIs against target, the open issues and the trends.

    A tier board with KPI widgets and the open issues list

Every week

  1. Open Goals > Dashboard to see the workspace goals, their KPIs and whether each facility goal is met, and Goals > Goal health for the ones that are off track.

    The Goals dashboard with workspace goals cascaded to facilities
  2. Open Projects > Dashboard to see every improvement project with its slippage, days delayed and state.

    The Projects dashboard
  3. Open Ideas > Dashboard to see the ideas waiting for feedback, and give it. Ideas that wait more than a week stop coming.

    The Ideas dashboard with ideas pending feedback

What good looks like

  • Nothing older than a day on your Approvals tab.

  • Every issue at your tier has an owner and a comment.

  • Every red KPI on the board has an action item or a project behind it.

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