SGP Certification Process

Question 1

Create a sustainability policy

Answer 1

• EHS Statements
• Employees / labor laws in your state
• Continuous Improvement Project
  
  • Day 1 you have to identify a CIP
    -Take Make Ready standards
    -Compress down
    -Reduce Time, materials, etc
    - Glorious Details
• *Share with employees, vendors, customers
  
  • Similar roadmap to ISEAL

Question 2

Create a Sustainability committee

Answer 2

Select a chair/ coordinator
- Have a regular meeting schedule
- Record minutes
- Members of committee include all levels
- Communicate

Question 3

Develop a SMS

Answer 3

• Sustainability management system
• Who are the responsible parties within organization
• Training
  
  • Engage all employees
  • Need to be told
  • Going to start measuring
  • What are we holding them accountable for
  • How the measuring is going to take place
• Record / Document Data
  
  • How to make automatic
  • Easier on everyone
  • If data or function is missing you get dinged
    
    • If its not documented it didn’t happen

Question 4

Implement

Answer 4

• Confirm training
• Identify start date
• Start

Question 5

Check and Correct

Answer 5

• You expect flaws
• Correct the Flaws
• Can take a week to a month to correct
• Goal is to get data stream correct and complete

Question 6

Document Control

Answer 6

• Capture the data on a monthly basis
• Continues Improvement
• Look and See if data is valid and reliable
• Identify gaps

Question 7

Write Report

Answer 7

• Report
• Review
• Ready for the onsite audit
• Verifying Report
• Give company link to dashboard
  - Reports come in on monthly basis
  - Looking for continues practices
  - More audits randomly

Question 8

Post Certification Survey

Answer 8

Over 50% response rate
Companies responded and said the process was not easy to obtain certification

Question 9

Value Stream Mapping

Answer 9

Value stream mapping is a lean manufacturing tool used to document, analyze and improve the flow of information and materials required to produce a product for a customer

Question 10

NVA / VA

Answer 10

No Value Added / Value Added

Question 11

Why aren’t more companies getting certified?

Answer 11

• Cost to much to do
• Certification Fee
• A year or more of reinventing the way they do business
• Think it will cost too much
• Data shows it doesn’t raise cost

Question 12

Dashboard

Answer 12

• Electronic tool to record and document
• Preloaded spreadsheet
• Simplified
• Input numbers