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MSS403034A
Organise products into groups

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Version 1.0
Issue Date: March 2024


This unit applies to personnel who, as part of their work role, need to analyse an organisation’s products or processes (physical or otherwise) so as to identify the most significant groups. There are several ways in which this may be done and this unit covers all of these ways. Typically the sorting into groups is not an end in itself but simply a way of identifying groups of products to which other competitive systems and practices may be applied. It may be appropriate to co-assess this unit with other relevant units, e.g. MSS403023A Monitor a levelled pull system of operations, or, for an office environment, MSS405033A Optimise office systems to deliver to customer demand.

The person will typically be a team leader, manager, senior operator or other person who has a role in implementing competitive systems and practices. They will work with others in the organising of products into groups either as part of a formal team or otherwise. They will liaise and communicate with these others as required.

This unit of competency covers the skills and knowledge required to organise products and processes into groups using techniques such as the Glenday Sieve, Pareto analysis or similar. This may be done to assist in moving to flow-based operations or to identify other strategies for improving customer benefits/features and the elimination of waste.

You may want to include more information here about the target group and the purpose of the assessments (eg formative, summative, recognition)

Prerequisites

Not applicable.


Employability Skills

This unit contains employability skills.




Evidence Required

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The evidence guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the performance criteria, required skills and knowledge, range statement and the Assessment Guidelines for the Training Package.

Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit

A person who demonstrates competency in this unit must be able to provide evidence of the ability to:

select an appropriate analysis tool and metrics

apply that tool to group SKUs

develop and recommend an appropriate response.

Context of and specific resources for assessment

Assessment of performance must be undertaken in a workplace using or implementing one or more competitive systems and practices.

Access may be required to:

workplace procedures and plans relevant to work area

specifications and documentation relating to planned, currently being implemented, or implemented changes to work processes and procedures relevant to the assessee

documentation and information in relation to production, waste, overheads and hazard control/management

reports from supervisors/managers

case studies and scenarios to assess responses to contingencies.

Method of assessment

A holistic approach should be taken to the assessment.

Competence in this unit may be assessed by using some combination of the following to generate evidence:

demonstration in the workplace

workplace projects

suitable simulation

case studies/scenarios (particularly for assessment of contingencies, improvement scenarios, and so on)

targeted questioning

reports from supervisors, peers and colleagues (third-party reports)

portfolio of evidence.

In all cases it is expected that practical assessment will be combined with targeted questioning to assess underpinning knowledge.

Where applicable, reasonable adjustment must be made to work environments and training situations to accommodate ethnicity, age, gender, demographics and disability.

Guidance information for assessment

Assessment processes and techniques must be culturally appropriate and appropriate to the oracy, language and literacy capacity of the candidate and the work being performed.


Submission Requirements

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Assessment Tasks

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Required skills

Required skills include:

analysing and manipulating data on current operations

communicating with relevant people and asking leading questions

analysing operations to identify current batching and non-flow related activities

identifying opportunities for increased customer pull and flow-based operations

selecting appropriate competitive systems and practices for organising products or service events into groups (e.g. Pareto analysis and Glenday Sieve)

developing strategic plans for implementation of particular competitive systems and practices to product groups

preparing reports and recommendations

Required knowledge

Required knowledge includes:

methodologies for sorting of products and service events and their advantages and disadvantages (e.g. Pareto analysis and the Glenday Sieve)

advantages of customer pull-based operations

concept of waste (muda)

basic data manipulation, including ratios

The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included.

Competitive systems and practices

Competitive systems and practices may include, but are not limited to:

lean operations

agile operations

preventative and predictive maintenance approaches

monitoring and data gathering systems, such as Systems Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) software, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, Materials Resource Planning (MRP) and proprietary systems

statistical process control systems, including six sigma and three sigma

Just in Time (JIT), kanban and other pull-related operations control systems

supply, value, and demand chain monitoring and analysis

5S

continuous improvement (kaizen)

breakthrough improvement (kaizen blitz)

cause/effect diagrams

overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)

takt time

process mapping

problem solving

run charts

standard procedures

current reality tree

Competitive systems and practices should be interpreted so as to take into account:

the stage of implementation of competitive systems and practices

the size of the enterprise

the work organisation, culture, regulatory environment and the industry sector

Stock keeping unit (SKU)

SKUs are products or services that have a unique identifier in an organisation’s inventory system. They may relate to items that are either purchased, offered for sale, or manufactured/conducted internally and which needs to be tracked. An SKU will usually be a physical product but may include:

countable services/events (e.g. time slots available for service calls charged by the hour, insurance claims)

Relevant metric

Relevant metric is the metric on which the analysis will be based. For a Glenday Sieve this will be sales volume. However, other appropriate metrics may include:

profit

profitability

sales/profit growth

Time basis

The time basis is the period of time over which the metric is considered. For a Glenday Sieve this will be one year. However, other periods may be appropriate, particularly in a cyclical/seasonal business and longer/shorter periods may yield better results

Analysis tool

Analysis tool is the methodology used for grouping the SKUs and may include, but is not limited to:

Glenday Sieve

Pareto analysis

80:20 rule

Sensitivity

Sensitivity testing is:

repeating the analysis using either a different tool or a different metric/time basis and examining the change this makes to the groupings

Strategic response

The strategic response is the application to which this grouping is to be put. This may include:

the levelling of production

the creation of different virtual production processes

the application of kaizen blitz to some groups

other relevant tool or strategy

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Observation Checklist

Tasks to be observed according to workplace/college/TAFE policy and procedures, relevant legislation and Codes of Practice Yes No Comments/feedback
Identify stock keeping units (SKUs) for analysis 
Determine relevant metric as the basis of organisation 
Determine time basis for analysis 
Collect selected metric over the time period for each SKU 

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