Analyse current improvement practice in food and drink operations
Overview
This standard is about the skills and knowledge needed for you to analyse current improvement practice to support your organisation's drive to improve food and drink operations. This is important in increasing productivity and success of manufacture, processing and supply within the food and drink supply chain. Analysing current practice may involve the use of one or more improvement techniques to support analysis, measurement and reporting.
You will need to show and understand how you prepare and carry out the analysis of process operations and business activity to assess their effectiveness and efficiency in your area of responsibility. You will need to accurately present findings of analysis to relevant people within the organisation, including management colleagues. You will need to comply with your company policy for improvement, take responsibility for your actions, and refer any issues outside of the limit of your authority to others.
This standard is for you if you analyse current improvement practice working in food and drink operations including manufacturing, processing, packing or supply chain activities. You may have responsibilities for aspects of organisational improvement in a team leadership or management role.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
- your organisation's improvement vision, strategy, objectives and the reasons for the implementation of improvement programmes
- why it is important to work proactively to analyse current practice within the overall improvement programme
- the role of analysis techniques in determining improvement opportunities and setting process and business targets
- the main features and benefits of the techniques used in analysis
- how to use improvement techniques to collect and analyse performance data
- how to obtain the information, documentation and resources that are needed to support the analysis of work activities
- how to use basic statistical analysis
- the use of statistical measurement and meanings, abbreviations and symbols in the collection and analysis of performance data
- how to use graphical data representation in data analysis
- how to interpret and evaluate data
- how to use data to identify improvement opportunities and targets
- how to motivate staff to maintain ongoing participation in improvement activities
- the formal and informal communication channels used and which to use dependent on the situation