Study On Design Change Management Procedure By BPR

Jiangling Motor Co., Ltd (JMC) is a holding subsidiary company of JianglingMotor Company Group (JMCG) and it was set up in Nov.1993. It appeared in AStock Market in Dec1993and B Stock Market in1995, and made cooperationrelationship with strategic partner Ford Motor Company. Along with the fast growingof JMC and deep-cooperation with Ford, especially the Product Develop System andQuality Management System was introduced from Ford, the current organizationstructure of JMC and the Design Change Management Procedure (DCMP) don’t meetthe requirement of the JMC anymore. So, it needs to use the BPR theory to redesignthe organization of JMC&revise the DCMP now. How to design the organization andassign the responsibility of LVT (Local Vehicle Team), and how to revise the DCMPassociated are the emphasis of this article.The business process reengineering was theorized by the America MichaelHammer and Jame Champy. It helps company make great improvements of businessin terms of cost, quality, service and speed, by using state-of-the-art manufacturingtechnology, information technology and modern management tools, maximizing thefunctional integration of technical and management functions of integration,establishing a new process organization structure to replace the traditional functionalorganization structure, stressing the business processes for the transformation of theobject&the center and the customer’s need&satisfaction as the goal, andfundamentally rethinking&radically redesigning the existing business processes.The former design change management procedure was running under theconditions: no united management organization with high efficiency, no team workwith cross-multiple departments, low level on work electronization， networking&informatization, which lead to a slow transmission of work flow, the lead-time of adesign change getting longer, bad information communication among departments. Itwill affect the Product Develop Team to focus their energy on the forward modeldevelopment and also the Quality Improvement Team to solve issues on the currentmodel more professionally.To solve all those issues that JMC faced in that time, JMC had set up a neworganization called LVT in Apr2008, based on the successful experiences that Ford have achieved. The responsibility of LVT was assigned and the DCMP was revisedsynchronously to meet the JMC requirement.The role and responsibilities for LVT are: leading place in continuous qualityimprovement, leading development of Special Vehicle Order (SVO) vehicle, leadingOngoing Product Development (OPD), leading Total Value Management (TVM)through design optimization&cost reduction etc. The LVT is consist of ProductManagement Team (PMT) engineer, Vehicle Function Group (VFG) engineer,Engineering Change Coordinator (ECC), manufacturing process engineer, FunctionBuild (FB) engineer, quality analysis engineer, TVM engineer etc. By the way, theLVT has connection with other departments in JMC and bridge to Ford globalengineering team such as Ford PVT, Ford APA VFG and REC. The DCMP wasrevised according to the role and responsibility of the LVT. Some segments of theformer DCMP has been optimized and integrated to fit the changes.BPR is a continual process and eternal topic. Every company should applyBusiness Process Reengineering as guidance to reform its organization structure andoptimize its procedures anytime and anywhere, because the customer, the competitionand the environment they face are changing all the time.After the process of BPR, the new organization structure LVT and DCMP arerunning inside JMC. Some achievements in continuous quality improvements, OPD,SVO vehicle developments and TVM has been made and commended by the JMCmanagement.It’s expected that JMC will apply and develop BPR in every fields to make thedevelopment and growth of JMC bigger and stronger.