Thank you for participating in the Glass Group Meeting yesterday. I personally think that it’s a good idea to bring all together – design, product management, PPT and GSC, when we see challenges, complexity and significantly changes for a capacity group like Glass. Therefore I would also suggest, that we more often (when it’s relevant) share information, so we are able to react on significantly changes for a group or issues that we need to be aware of in the GSC team. What do you think about that?
Topics covered at the meeting:
- Skills
Learning curve 2 months
Using 6 weeks for testing and 4-5 weeks for campaign
- Future complexity
The market request more complex items like 3D, and we expect higher complexity for the future.
- Market demand
6 murano SKUs for SS17: 3 designs developed by PPT and 3 designs developed outside PPT (South Africa), but will be produced at PPT.
- Add flexibility to the group
PPT would like to have pre-orders for SS17, but since no items have be selected as pre-selected items we need to evaluate later if it could be an option to start up the production.
- In-house production
Current capacity split is: 80K at PPT and 50K at Helfire. If we get above 150K per week it become critical for the group. Therefore we need to re-evaluate, if SS17 volume have significantly impact on the group.
- Initiatives in Chanchai’s team
Few initiatives like participating in workshops, technique improvement, coming up with new designs and trials.
Other:
- We now have the estimates for E1 SS17, and for the next S&OP meeting in July we would be able to decide if some items can start the production or if we should wait.
- Keep capacity at 110K for glass group until we know the volume changes since last S&OP.
- Do you have anything to add?