What are Parking Lot Items?
 

The ideas and suggestions that come up during a Kaizen event,  but are out of scope.

Often times we capture parking lot items on a flip chart paper or a white board...

But then what?

Use the Optimizer to:
CaptureParkingLot
Capturing Parking Lot Items

Capture Parking Lot Items in the Kaizen
From your Kaizen Event... Tasks (or Newspaper) Tab:
  • Click Add Task
  • Choose Parking Lot as "type"
     
  • Enter remaining info
     
  • Click Save

Suggestions:

Use the sort/filter functions at the top of the list to hide Parking Lot items when doing a kaizen task review

Set the due date to end of year or quarter depending on how often you want review Parking Lot items

Add any additional information in the description box if you think the context of the item might be lost over time.
CreatingaParkingLotReport
Creating a Parking Lot Report
  • From Reports>Tasks>Sort/Filter All Tasks
  • Choose Source "Kaizen"
     
  • Choose Type "Parking Lot"
     
  • Choose Status you would prefer
     
    • Note:  Choose OnTime/Late and Near Late to see all items that are NOT complete
       
  • Click Run Report
ParkingLotEmailReport
Setting Up An Email Frequency for Parking Lot Reports

Once you've set up your report....
  • Name the Report and Save (not sure how to name/save?)
     
  • Click the tool icon next to the saved report
     
  • Choose email frequency
     
  • Click Save
NamingSavingReports
Naming and Saving Reports

After you set your filters and Run the report...

  • Enter a name for report
  • Click Save Report
Additional help, information and screenshots can be found in the Optimizer on-line help pages. Or contact [email protected]

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