Talking Lean E-News:
Improving the Procurement Process:
University of Texas
Pan American
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By Tom Seitz and George Reynolds
The University of Texas Pan American (UTPA) encourages students to "Prepare, Discover, Transform".
In this regard, the University is wildly successful. It is consistently ranked among the top 100 best US colleges for Hispanic students, and is 2nd in the nation for the number of bachelor's degrees awarded.
All that success is contagious - UTPA attracts talented academics from around the world to research and teach in its Edinburg, TX campus.
But this success comes at a price: The University Infrastructure, which was adequate for a small regional college, now struggled to support the demands of the increased volume of a growing regional University.
In his first year as President of the UTPA, Dr. Robert Nelsen recognized this challenge right away. He had a transformative vision for his University which required improved responsiveness in administrative functions, without any increase in cost....
...Dr. Nelsen was familiar with the concept of LEAN at an enterprise level, and suspected he could achieve his goals through the identification and elimination of waste and improvement in the flow of tasks....
Without increasing costs or headcount, they were able to bring the lead time for the procurement process down by almost 50%! Read More
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