Seminar on complexity and variant management – mastering complexity and variant diversity
Companies in the manufacturing industry are currently facing increasing complexity and a growing number of variants. As complexity increases, so do overall costs, while profitability suffers. The aim of many companies is therefore to reduce complexity and save costs through targeted variant management. In this seminar, you will learn the basics of variant and complexity management. You will also learn how complexity cost accounting can help you evaluate variants and variant decisions.
Further information
Agenda
| Time | Programme item |
|---|---|
| 09:00 | Begrüßung und Kennenlernen |
| 09:30 | Grundlagen des Komplexitäts- und Variantenmanagements |
| 10:15 | Pause & Networking |
| 10:30 | Workshop I: Komplexität in Ihrem Unternehmen - Aufnahme des Status-quo |
| 11:15 | Ganzheitliches und strategisches Variantenmanagement |
| 12:00 | Gemeinsames Mittagessen |
| 13:00 | Analyse der Komplexität im variantenreichen Portfolio |
| 14:00 | Kosteneffekte durch Variantenvielfalt |
| 14:45 | Pause & Networking |
| 15:00 | Phase-out von Varianten |
| 15:30 | Workshop II: Identifikation von Auswirkungen der Komplexität |
| 16:15 | Praxisbeispiele aus der Industrie |
| 16:45 | Wrap-up: "What-to-do-on-Monday" |
Event description
With the help of successful variant and complexity management, you will be able to offer your customers a large number of differentiated product variants without the internal component diversity getting out of hand. We will teach you the basics and fundamental strategies of complexity management and give you an insight into how to manage variant diversity with the help of feature and variant trees. A key issue here is often the economic consideration of individual variants. For this reason, you will get to know complexity cost accounting as a method for cost allocation and variant assessment based on causation. In particular, the consideration of overhead costs via overhead costing no longer does justice to the complexity of today's product portfolios, so that prices of exotic variants are often not cost-covering and have to be cross-subsidized via price surcharges for standard variants. Numerous practical examples and workshops support the learning of the methodical approach.
By attending the seminar you will learn...:
- ... the basics of complexity theory
- ... the analysis of market and customer requirements for variant diversity
- ... the analysis of existing complexity in terms of part diversity
- ... the procedure for identifying variance-induced processes
- ... the procedure for complexity cost accounting
- ... the structure of a calculation logic for analyzing complexity costs
- ... know many practical examples from industry
Topic areas
- Complexity management
- Cost drivers
- Cost accounting based on causation
- Process costs
- Complexity cost analysis
- Variety of variants
- Variant management
- Product variants
- Component variants
Target group
Your contact
Lennard Knobel
Mobil: +49 170 9781027
lennard.knobel@complexity-academy.com
Experience
- Training initiatives for innovation management and agile development of mechatronic products
- Consultancy project on market intelligence in mechanical and plant engineering
- In-house seminars on variant management