RIM Company Cubing is a map system for companies. It is the first management model for companies that can describe a company end-to-end, seamlessly and consistently. It is based on the theory of summarization and resolution levels that we use in the RIM was developed.
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🌟 Would you like to understand your company? - Today we reveal the central key for you. 🗝️
We also correct old representations that are often still found in textbooks. 📚
Basic process patterns for the interaction of the main processes in companies
🤔 Have you ever wondered what Select to Order (STO), Engineering to Order (ETO), Configure to Order (CTO) etc. actually mean? 🧐
🔍 First of all, for context: we at RIM have developed a map system that can be used to precisely explain and understand companies from very different perspectives. 🗺️ We call it company cubing. 🏢
🗺️ To understand the process patterns, we use such a map. We call it a process lifecycle map. It shows processes in chronological order, i.e. over a time axis. ⏳
👀 The 3 main process groups of a company are shown:
- 1️⃣ Process group A: Design to SOP/Handover/Operate - a product is developed here 👩💻
- 2️⃣ Process group B: Lead to Cash/Order to Cash - this is where a product is offered on the market and money is earned 💰
- 3️⃣ Process group C: Plan to Produce/Purchase to Pay - this is where the products are produced and everything necessary is purchased on the market 🏭
🔗 Now to the core.
These process groups do not work on their own. They are connected in very different ways depending on the corporate strategy. 🔄
🧩 The connections are realized via process patterns:
1️⃣ Process pattern of the inventory strategy - linking Lead to Cash and Plan to Produce (process group B and C).
- Make to Stock (MTS): Process group B and C are completely decoupled via a stock 📦
- Make to Order (MTO): Process group B and C are directly linked. Orders have a direct effect on production 🏭
- Assemble to Order (ATO): Coupling and decoupling in the MRP stages of the M(RP)-BOM 🧮
2️⃣ Process pattern of order processing - coupling of Design to Handover and Lead to Cash (process group A and B).
- Select to Order (STO): Process group A and B are fully decoupled, i.e. a separate product development process with Start of Production as the initiator for the start of the first Lead to Cash processes 🚀
- Engineering to Order (ETO): Process group A is fully integrated into process group B. Development takes place in the quotation and order process ✍️
- Configure to Order Plus (CTO/CTO+): The ideal case, standardized and modularized products that the customer can configure with an individual order component. Results in a very complex interaction of process groups A and B 👑
💭 Not so difficult when you look at it like this, is it? 🤓
🙋♂️🙋 What do you think? What questions and comments do you have?
🚀 If you are about to implement such a scenario, then ask us at RIM. We will accompany you on the path to implementation. 🛣️
End-to-end processes & process patterns - Jörg, what are you doing?
RIM is currently experiencing a trend towards end-to-end processes in the industry. This is closely interwoven with S/4HANA and the Greenfield-approach and the emergence of Process Mining.
Many companies are converting their process maps to end-to-end processes.
Plan-to-Produce, Purchase-to-Pay, Design-to-Operate, Invoice-to-Pay, Hire-to-Retire, Inbound-to-Outbound are process names that are suddenly mentioned everywhere as a matter of course.
Well, first of all, it is very good to look at processes in their entirety.
Unfortunately - and it has to be said, as so often - there is a blind spot!
End-to-end processe do not stand alone. They work together. A company is only successful if it succeeds in orchestrating this interaction of end-to-end processes!
So how do they work together? I explain this in the video of our "Jörg, what are you doing?" series using the Company Cubing map system developed by our RIM. 🏢
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I aggregate the end-to-end processes into 3 main process groups!
1️⃣ Process group A: Design to SOP/Handover/Operate - a product is developed here 👩💻
2️⃣ Process group B: Lead to Cash/Order to Cash - this is where a product is offered on the market and money is earned 💰
3️⃣ Process group C: Plan to Produce/Purchase to Pay - this is where the products are produced and everything necessary is purchased on the market 🏭
We will then discuss how these main process groups can be dynamically linked and orchestrated.
The film is practically a must for all process, ERP and PLM experts 😉
It is in German, but has English subtitles 😊
🙋♂️🙋 What do you think? What questions and comments do you have?
🚀 And if you are about to implement such a scenario, then ask us at RIM. We will accompany you on the path to implementation. 🛣️
