LEANutopia Past Events

2022 | Mayfield Heights, OH | Virtual & Onsite

• Rockwell Automation: 
• To address cycle times, productivity and consistency challenges, we shared how we added BPA workflow to reduce non-value tasks, simplify the user work and reporting.  
• Results: users can track the status of work in-process, an audit trail is automatically generated, rework is minimized, detailed process metrics are available 
• Metrics:  We have reduced cycle times, improved process throughput, reduced user training time, reduced rework, and improved target service levels
• RPA Scripts Results: After we implemented automated processes using we reduced average SAP material master plant extension time from 21 days to less than six hours (we run the process four times per day).
• Metrics:  Material Master plant and sales org. extensions are processed four times per day and there is no processing backlog.  Operations and Planning data quality = 5.9 sigma. Sales and Marketing data quality = 5.6 sigma  
• Louisiana Pacific:  Please request the slides or info.

2023 | Maumee, OH | Virtual & Onsite

• The Andersons: Perspectives on their journey to optimize SAP, MDM, and data & analytics enablement. This included automating business partner create and change for S/4HANA and building their enterprise data & performance analytics and cloud strategy.
• SAP moderated peer group session: Open discussions around value propositions based on continuous improvement, Lean Six Sigma’s DMAIC principles and automation ROI and justification challenges.
• Raffle, networking, food and drinks

LEANutopia has hosted a variety of peer review events over the years including:

• ASUG regional SAP events
• Sapphire booths 
• SAP & Supper series 
• Winshuttle user groups: WUG and HUG venues
• COVID impacted 2021 and 2022 events.

Please contact Mark Orzen to discuss LEANutopia and/or partnership ideas such as Private Equity holding educational events.  Mark can be texted at 440-552-5090 or emailed at markorzen@outlook.com