Improve productivity and quality – Key to success for business

Applying management systems and quality improvement tools are solutions that help businesses compete in the market.

According to the survey results conducted by Ho Chi Minh City Department of Science and Technology in cooperation with Ho Chi Minh City Institute of Economics, about 70% of enterprises in 4 key industries in HCM City have quality productivity activitie. Businesses with quality management systems achieve sales of 3-7 times more than non-applicable businesses.

Statistics of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Standards, Metrology and Quality show that the application of management systems such as ISO 9001: 2015 helps businesses grow in productivity, revenue and profit from 30 to 50% with the previous year.

Despite knowing the benefits of applying management systems and tools to improve productivity and quality, some businesses are still hesitant and have not implemented. Sharing about this, Mr. Nguyen Van Ha, Director of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Standards, Metrology and Quality said, many businesses know and want to apply improved tools but don’t know how to bring benefits and effectively.

“Standing in front of a series of system tools but do not know how to apply any system tools accordingly, leading to the embarrassment of enterprises in implementation. Therefore, we are actively supporting businesses in the matter.”, Mr. Ha said.

In recent years, Ho Chi Minh City Branch of Standards, Metrology and Quality has organized nearly 1,000 popular classes, propaganda, training and international cooperation on building and applying advanced management and energy management systems quantity, brand, model of research and development activities, new scientific and technological information…

“Standing in front of a series of system tools but do not know how to apply any system tools accordingly, leading to the embarrassment of enterprises in implementation. Therefore, we are actively supporting businesses in the matter.”, Mr. Ha said.

In recent years, Ho Chi Minh City Branch of Standards, Metrology and Quality has organized nearly 1,000 popular classes, propaganda, training and international cooperation on building and applying advanced management and energy management systems quantity, brand, model of research and development activities, new scientific and technological information …

According to the statistics of the Sub-Department, over 38,530 people participated in these training counseling programs; of which 719 businesses have been supported to apply advanced quality management systems and quality improvement tools.

“In order to implement successful system tools, businesses need the most perseverance and determination of the Board of Directors as well as all employees. Besides, the head needs to understand the whole emplementation process, present, grasp the arising problems, the reasons why and give make appropriate adjustments “, Mr. Ha affirmed.

Binh Minh Plastics is also one of the enterprises that successfully applied these experiences. The factory of Binh Minh Plastic Joint Stock Company in Vinh Loc 2 industrial zone is in working hours but sparsely workers, replace this are machines. Here, robots auto take on most of the production. The most labor-intensive factory with an area of 10,000 square meters also has a maximum of 65 workers per production shift. Their main task is supervise and inspect the production process.

Unlike work what use labor to divide shifts and rest time, the whole production system at the factory operates continuously 24/24.

Mr. Nguyen Thanh Hai – Deputy General Director of Binh Minh Plastics Joint Stock Company said that the application of quality management model ISO:9000, ISO:14000 environmental quality management standards and improvement tools Advancing like Kaizen and 5S on quality management and productivity improvement has been applied for many years and continuously improved.

According to Kaizen’s motto of continuous improvement, every year, the company has set up a development investment fund made from profits (accounting for 5-0% of revenue) to invest in new equipment, improve capacity and open wide production, increased competitiveness. Besides, thanks to the application of 5S for many years, the factories, zones containing materials and finished products of the company are arranged and arranged in a reasonable manner.

With the issue of human resource management, Binh Minh Plastics has implemented the information technology solution for corporate human resources management (ERP) at units such as the company’s headquarters, 4 affiliated factories (HCM City) at Binh Duong, Long An, Hung Yen) and Da Nang branch.

Thanks to the application of this solution, the management board can control accurate accounting data, build cost calculation models consistent with the proposed strategy, and manage the inventory of materials and timely analysis well product prices and contribute to improving economic efficiency for the organization.

Thus, in the last 5 years, the company’s growth rate has always reached 16-18% per year. The company’s products are now available in domestic and international markets. The current output is approximately 100,000 tons per year and the turnover is over VND 4,000 billion.

“There are many changes but the first is strategy. We focus on corporate governance, internal governance, customer-oriented, market. From there, we expand our production capacity. , research and development of new products to meet the increasing demands of customers and markets”, said Hai.

In 2018, Binh Minh Plastics Joint Stock Company first participated in the National Quality Award and immediately won the Golden Award, out of 73 businesses receiving this award nationwide. At the same time, the company has surpassed hundreds of enterprises selected by countries in the Asia-Pacific region to be honored in the World Class Award category – the first prize for the major type of production at Asia-Pacific International Quality Award ceremony GPEA 2018.

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