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the delivery of GF2 in Ontario.  \nTable of Contents  \nIntroduction ............................................................................................................................................ 2  \nPlan Do Check Act (PDCA) ...................................................................................................................... 3  \nGetting Started ....................................................................................................................................... 4  \nStep 1: Project Charter ....................................................................................................................... 5  \nStep 2: Map the Current Process ....................................................................................................... 8  \nStep 3: The Cause and Effect (Fishbone) Diagram ........................................................................... 11  \nStep 4: The Ideas Board.................................................................................................................... 14  \nStep 5: The Ideas Sorter ................................................................................................................... 17  \nStep 6: The Action Log ...................................................................................................................... 19  \nStep 7: Future State Process ............................................................................................................ 23  \nStep 8: Pre Mortem .......................................................................................................................... 26  \nStep 9: Pulling It All Together ........................................................................................................... 29  \nStep 10: Process Data and Performance .......................................................................................... 31  \nIntroduction  \nThe purpose of this workbook is to show how you can increase your business’s profitability by reducing waste. Examples of waste include lost products (shrink), energy, labour, packaging and transport. VCMI’s work with the North American, European and Australasian produce industries shows that businesses can typically improve their financial performance by 10 plus per cent by implementing simple practices that lead to more effective processes. Consider the scale of opportunities available to your businesses through noticing things such as the fact that in fresh produce, waste typically accounts for 20 per cent of all costs incurred, and that reducing waste by one per cent results in the equivalent of four per cent increase in revenue. Improvements in quality and customer service that flow from improved processes also enable businesses to increase sales.  \nMost enterprises have processes in need of improvement – either because they are informal and therefore performed inconsistently, and/or they create rework or shrink, which costs time and money. Process improvement initiatives work and deliver good results when …..  \n• You adopt a project approach to each improvement opportunity  \n• Senior management commit to championing the cause  \n• Subject matter experts are engaged as a team  \n• Teams, comprising individuals from across the business, are allocated the time and resources to work on the project  \n• Decisions are based on data and facts, not opinions and assumptions  \n• Objective appropriate methodology and tools are used  \n• You don’t try to “boil the ocean”  \nThis workbook, provided through the Ontario Produce Marketing Association’s food loss and waste reduction initiative, will enable you to begin improving your processes and secure the financial benefits described above. 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