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Concern Khlibprom holds rotation of directors of its five plants
It was the first time Concern Khlibprom practiced the tool of horizontal rotation at the management level. In August 2014, five directors of the eight production units of the Company studied the peculiarities of the enterprises entrusted to them by their colleagues.
"We know many examples of reshuffle of managerial staff from international management practices,” Yurii Rohovyi, Operations Director of Concern Khlibprom PJSCsays, “Some companies have it as a part of their corporate culture envisaged by the charter. Now we have learnt at first hand that this approach is efficient."
This exchange resulted in the analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of each plant subject to the rotation project. All in all, directors came up with 62 suggestions that could be implemented within our concern. 42% of suggestions concerns the logistics, sales and product delivery, 30% covers optimization and technological process improvement, 15% concerns staff management, including motivation, 11% concerns diversification, with an account taken of the technical capabilities of production capacity and market needs, and 2% concerns the control systems.
The directors were set the tasks to identify the benefits and the challenges to the enterprises which were dropped out of sight by their colleagues through routine at the permanent workplace. Some of the rational suggestions from a proposed list were quite easy to implement – they were accomplished within a month, 6 of them will be completed in the nearest future and the rest has been included in the medium-term plan.
According to the preliminary estimates, the effect of the implemented innovations can be seen in a few months. In particular, thanks to the adjusted plan of orders, it is expected to see the increase in sales of particular products by 20%; replacement of molding equipment will allow avoiding downtime and increase productivity by 10%. etc.
The important focus of the Company’s attention is on implementation of the suggestions that influence the improvement of working conditions of employees. Thus, by the end of the year, repairs will be done and facilities for everyday needs will be equipped at the specific production units.
This step was implemented within the strategy of internal optimization and increase in efficiency of the units. The Company intends to organize a systemic rotation of managers and extend it to other levels of management yet in 2014. These measures will apply primarily to quality and production management.
