Imagine you have a broken cordless drill at home and you want to buy a new one to fix things around the house. You find the type you want for sale online, but the website says it will take five weeks before it is ready to ship to you! What are you likely to do? Wait five weeks…or keep shopping for someone who can deliver sooner? This illustrates one of Kimray’s signif- icant challenges: serving our stores and distributors with reasonable lead times so they can get products they want when they want them. Some of our products have a 1-day lead time if they are in stock, but many products are not available for one or two months. Not being able to serve our customers in a timely manner has a negative impact on sales, which is some- thing we must correct this year. How long it takes us to manufacture our prod- ucts is the primary driver of lead times. Recent- ly, a cross-functional Kimray team worked with Burns McDonnell, a manufacturing consulting firm, to study product processing time. They identified 15 processes each item goes through, starting with order entry, and ending with shipment to the customer. The team’s analy- sis revealed that it takes up to 73 days to go through all of these processes. However, the most astonishing discovery was that the actual time we spend manufacturing or modifying the product is less than half an hour! This begs the question: why does it take 73 days to process 30 minutes of work, and how can we be more efficient? The team who studied this problem will lead us, as a company, to resolve these challenges and reduce the time it takes to move products through our manufacturing process. The solu- tion will take a lot of creativity and diligence to know how to give customers what they need, get raw materials in hand faster, move parts through the shop more smoothly, assemble items that work the first time, and ship them to our customers in a timely manner. Whenever you hear about “lead time” in the months ahead, think about what you would do if you were buying from Kimray -- and do everything you can to meet or exceed customer expecta- tions. Share your ideas about how we can improve, and be open to change as we implement new processes. Together we can provide the Extreme Customer Service that comes with living out The Kimray Way. -Bob Cole, President HOW LONG WILL THAT TAKE?! Lead Time and Why It's Important RED IRON PRODUCER KIMRAY’S MONTHLY NEWSLETTER MARCH 2016 Agents of Change Page 3 Food for Thought Page 8 Kimray Kudos Page 7 Safety Matters Page 2 Extended Family Update Page 4 LEAD TIME START FINISH Kimray team members identifying ways to improve lead time.
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Imagine you have a broken cordless drill at home and you want to buy a new one to fix things around the house. You find the type you want for sale online, but the website says it will
take five weeks before it is ready to ship to you! What are you likely to do? Wait five weeks…or keep shopping for someone who can deliver sooner?
This illustrates one of Kimray’s signif-icant challenges: serving our stores and distributors with reasonable lead times so they can get products they want when they want them. Some of our products have a 1-day lead time if they are in stock, but many products are not available for one or two months. Not being able to serve our customers in a timely manner has a negative impact on sales, which is some-thing we must correct this year.
How long it takes us to manufacture our prod-
ucts is the primary driver of lead times. Recent-ly, a cross-functional Kimray team worked with Burns McDonnell, a manufacturing consulting firm, to study product processing time. They identified 15 processes each item goes through, starting with order entry, and ending with shipment to the customer. The team’s analy-sis revealed that it takes up to 73 days to go through all of these processes. However, the most astonishing discovery was that the actual
time we spend manufacturing or modifying the product is less than half an hour!
This begs the question: why does it take 73 days to process 30 minutes of work, and how can we be more efficient?
The team who studied this problem will lead us, as a company, to resolve these challenges and reduce the time it takes to move products through our manufacturing process. The solu-tion will take a lot of creativity and diligence to know how to give customers what they need, get raw materials in hand faster, move parts through the shop more smoothly, assemble items that work the first time, and ship them to our customers in a timely manner.
Whenever you hear about “lead time” in the months ahead, think about what you would do if you were buying from Kimray -- and do everything you can to meet or exceed customer expecta-tions. Share your ideas about how we can improve, and be open to change as we implement new processes. Together we can provide the Extreme
Customer Service that comes with living out The Kimray Way.
-Bob Cole, President
HOW LONG WILL THAT TAKE?!Lead Time and Why It's Important
RED IRON PRODUCERKIMRAY’S MONTHLY NEWSLETTER MARCH 2016
Agents of ChangePage 3
Food for Thought Page 8
Kimray KudosPage 7
Safety Matters Page 2
Extended Family UpdatePage 4
L E A D T I M E
S T A R T F I N I S H
Kimray team members identifying ways to improve lead time.
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SEEING THINGS CLEARLY WITH EYE PROTECTIONBy Charles Hightower, Safety & Environmental Coordinator
In March, we will be three months in to the Safety Matters campaign and we’re eager to see what kind of impact a collective, proactive approach to working safely at Kimray will have this year! By nature, the safety department is charged with making sure each of us works in a way that allows us to go home to our families in one, healthy piece. One way we do that is by doing our best to help fellow team members avoid eye injuries.
In honor of Workplace Eye Health and Safety Month, let’s take a look back at the history of eye protection in the U.S. and what it means to all of us at Kimray.
The Industrial Revolution was a magnificent time for engineers and architects in the United States. The era created a forum for industries such as manu-facturing, construction, railroad and the marine boating industry. The massive influx of business helped create countless job opportunities for a struggling U.S. economy. However, companies valued business over employee safety. In fact, work place injuries, even severe ones, were seen as “just part of the job,” and eye injuries were among the top reported.
A young inventor by the name of Powell Johnson developed the first set of eye protectors in 1880. John-son initially designed eye protec-tors to help shield railroad workers’ eyes from the harm of ultraviolet rays.
Over the years, Johnson’s original eye protector design evolved, and in 1989 the American National Standards Insti-tute (ANSI) mandated that all safety glass manufacturers provide an impact rating. Safety glasses bearing the ANSI name must meet stringent require-ments to receive the ANSI Z87+ desig-nation. One requirement consists of safety glasses being able to withstand a ¼-inch steel ball, fired close range at 102 MPH.
Makes you wonder who tested those out!
Unfortunately, this vital knowledge is not always transferred to
everyone. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics, 20,000 eye injuries occurred within the private industry in 2014.
Most of us know that Kimray values the safety and wellbe-
ing of all employees, and safety glasses help us live out our core
values. Kimray’s manufacturing and machining processes require all
employees to wear ANSI Z87+ eye protec-tion in all production areas.
Think about it. The eye is a vital organ that plays an important role in the human body. The eye helps in identifying shapes, dimensions and colors. Loss of eyesight would hinder things like spending time with your
family, reading a book, or watching television.
While there have been countless medical breakthroughs over the years, there have been no successful eye replacement procedures.
Please take the time to use proper safety eyewear before conducting a high-risk task. You have an open invitation to get safety glass-es here in the safety offices, or at the tool cribs located throughout the campus.
Always ensure that your safety eyewear fits well so that you can protect your vision and enjoy life to the fullest!
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Congratulations! You have been identified as an Agent of Change, an honorable distinction. As an Agent, you are an official member of a unique league of Kimray team members who have identified and implemented cost-saving or revenue-generating ideas!
When it comes to the effort of profit improvement of massive proportions, Agent Jen Roberts and her secret weapon -- an eye for frugality -- have saved Kimray nearly $400,000 through her use of the RSVP system to register team members for Thanksgiving turkeys and Christmas baskets. She also cut costs on basket items and packaging resulting in an approximate $15 per-person savings, a total savings of $9,300!
In a recent tactical transaction, Agents Sarah Watson, Terry Myers, and Dustin Anderson switched Kimray’s customer relationship management system from Salesforce to
Microsoft Dynamics. Their mission objective will save $250,000!
Agent Kelly Jennings’ savvy substitution of onboarding
participant guide
material involves use of a $0.10 spiral instead of a $2 binder. Savings: Approximately $2,000!
Agent Howard Scott’s mission objective is twofold: performing in-house calibrations on testers instead of outsourcing the job, and extending calibration due dates based on device usage. Agent Scott’s resourcefulness will save more than $2,400!
Thank you for making a difference! -M
Get In The Game! Go to the MiniGame creation room stocked with stencils, poster board and more, to build a great MiniGame scoreboard! The MiniGame creation room is located in the Communications & Events building, on the northwest corner of 41st and Santa Fe Ave!
Need help coming up with a MiniGame for your area? Contact the MiniGame Team at [email protected]
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Jonathan Burgett worked at Kimray for just over eight years before choosing to use
the opt-out program last November. While here, Burgett was an equip-ment technician in Fleet where he maintained and operated electric carts, forklifts, pilot jacks and scis-sor lifts.
Since leaving the company, Jona-than has been busy preparing to fulfill a longtime goal of permanent-ly moving his family to Japan for the purpose of sharing the Gospel.
“I had been considering it and praying about it for a while,” Burgett said, “The opt-out package was a blessing and an opportunity.”
Jonathan and Tabitha, his wife of 9 years, have been to Japan before. They spent three months there on
a mission trip in July of 2012 with the help of donations from some of Jonathan’s Kimray co-workers.
Years before that, Jonathan lived in Japan with his parents who were missionaries. He was able to learn the language and culture, then moved back to the U.S. when he was 16 years old.
Jonathan and Tabitha are proud parents of seven children and are expecting an 8th in August. He is excited that his family gets to be part of something great.
“The city of Niigata has 800,000 people and no independent Baptist churches,” Burgett said, “This is a great opportunity, but first, it will take a couple of years for us to get acclimated. I’ll be going to school to work on Japanese vocabulary and grammatical structure.”
Jonathan says he knows he and his family are taking on an important responsibility and that in many ways he feels inadequate, thinking others would be better at doing what he feels he’s being called to do. Nevertheless, he expresses a genuine happiness about following God’s lead and encourages others to be open to doing the same.
“If you feel as if your life has come to a standstill, don’t ever assume that you are at the end of your journey,” Jonathan said, “God might be preparing you for a future where you will be able to help others who don’t have the resources we have.”
Now that’s making a difference!
To keep up with the Burgett family and their mission, follow them at burgettjapan.com.
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updateJonathan Burgett
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GREGORY CHAMBERS KSS-SHREVEPORT Promoted to Account Manager
BRETT COPELANDKSS-CA Promoted to Bakersfield Shop Foreman
BRYAN COYER INVENTORY CONTROL Promoted to Inventory Control Supervisor
LARRY ROLETTEKSS-PA Promoted to District Manager
JARED VAUGHAN KSS-CA Promoted to Bakersfield Operations Supervisor
SETH BEARDENITNetwork Operations Manager
JENNIFER MORRISTRAININGManufacturing Training Manager
PROMOTIONS, ADDITIONS & RETIREES FEBRUARY 2016
AUSTIN HILLSALESKSS Trainee
JOSH COLEASSEMBLYAssembler
DON DENNISSAFETY Retired after 36 years of Service
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Kimmell Conference Center
Wednesdays at11:45 a.m. and 12:15 p.m.
Fridays at 1 a.m.
Dulaney Building
Thursdays at 11:45 a.m.
SPOTLIGHT on
ROLL INTO THE NEW YEARBOWLING TOURNAMENT
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Kimmell Conference Center
Wednesdays at11:45 a.m. and 12:15 p.m.
Fridays at 1 a.m.
Dulaney Building
Thursdays at 11:45 a.m.
KIMRAY KUDOS
To submit a Kimray Kudo, email the Red Iron team at [email protected] and provide:
• The name and a photo of the person receiving the kudos
• Name of employee submitting kudos and relationship to recipient
• One sentence description
Submissions must be made by the 10th of each month to be considered for the next newsletter.
ku·dosnoun \ ́kyü-, -˛dos\: praise or respect that you get because of something you have done or achieved
UPCOMING DATES TO REMEMBER
More details will be available as each event draws closer.
Kudos to Joshua Mount who recently completed a 9-week military-style basic training in Big Sandy, Texas for ALERT (Air Land Emergency Resource Team). Mount and 39 other ALERT participants experienced intense spiritual, physical and mental training. Great job, Joshua!
Kudos to Supply Chain for participating in the Oklahoma Food Bank’s February volunteer night where they bagged and boxed a lot of potatoes! The Supply Chain team bagged 3,983 potatoes and boxed 19,915 pounds worth of potatoes, equating to 16,595 meals given to those in need!
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If you live on earth, then you know that life is a continual series of challenges. Challenges arise whether one leads a company through difficult times, or whether one attempts to get in and out of a store parking lot accident free. There are some challenges we look forward to, welcoming the opportunity to build upon a skillset. On the other hand, we may dread them, but challenges will come, nonetheless.
So, how do we come up with the needed strength and wisdom to face these challenges?
If we were to list all of the passages containing the Lord’s instructions and our need for faith, it would encompass most of the scripture. The Lord desires that we trust Him to the point that we follow His lead no matter where it may take us. Most of us try to plan out the best way to approach a difficult situation once we have concluded that it has to be dealt with.
That planning time is a great moment to focus our attention on the Lord and ask Him for wisdom. This is prayer in its purist form. As
we learn through the plumb line of scripture, godly advice and the inner confidence in what His Spirit tells us, our steps will then follow His lead by faith. The way He leads may not pass muster with public approval or with our own emotional appraisal, but we can follow Him with confidence and trust Him with the outcome.
In the end, we are being conformed to His image, His original intent for us, and how we glorify Him most.
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EMPLOYEE RECOGNITIONS
The mind of man plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps.”Proverbs 16:9 NASB
FOOD FOR THOUGHT BY BRUCE BARTEAUX , CHAPLAIN
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MARCH'SCHARACTER QUALITY
PatienceTaking the time necessary to work through a difficult situation
Jonathan Wilson, 3 years, LafayetteBrent Akin, 4 years, Shreveport
Greg Chambers, 4 years, ShreveportJacob Jennings, 4 years, Houston
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight.”
