BPAC/CBP Workshops

This FREE On-Demand workshop covers the basics of Business Process Analysis & Costing (BPAC) and how it can be used to enhance resource deployment, cost management, and operations planning. Through use of a case study, participants will learn how BPAC principles, including “what-if” analysis, provide better insights into resource consumption and utilization.

Participants will:

• Understand operational models to help manage budgets, develop realistic product costs and service fees, and implement meaningful cost recovery strategies
• Recognize the impact of resource constraints on product or service delivery costs and budgets
• Appreciate the value of collaborative scenario-playing to evaluate efficiency improvements that align with LEAN or other business process improvement initiatives

This online White-Belt Certification workshop covers how  Business Process Analysis & Costing (BPAC) and Lean can be aligned into a comprehensive approach for business modeling, resource management and process improvement. 

Following the Lean Six Sigma DMAIC approach, participants will learn how to:

• Define – understand the problem(s) within the processes and conduct a strategic and operational assessment to determine the best opportunities for business process improvement 
• Measure – recognize non-value-added activities within a process and how to collect and validate operational, financial, and performance data to model current and future state processes
• Analyze – evaluate model results and explore operational and financial relationship to help recognize root causes for waste (non-value-added work) and other process problems
• Improve – identify process improvement ideas and test/evaluate potential solutions to assess the impact on throughput, quality, resources, costs and profitability
• Control – develop strategies to sustain a Lean-BPAC program and move towards a continuous improvement culture through understanding leading performance and quality indicators

This online workshop helps organizations better understand the critical success factors associated with driving a “Business Process Improvement” culture in their organizations. Through the use of real-world examples and an interactive hands-on case study, participants come away with “ready to apply” tips, techniques, and templates to either initiate or enhance efficiency or operational/service costing initiatives in their own organizations. 

Participants will learn how to:

• Initiate, align, and sustain business process analysis and costing (BPAC) and improved operational costing in your organization 
• Develop “hands-on” experience in building meaningful resource management and operational planning and costing models
• Appreciate the value of planning in a collaborative environment to improve the long-term sustainability of the enterprise
• Evaluate the role of BPAC technology using Collaborative Business Planning (CBP), for visualization, calculation and scenario playing purposes  
• Realize the benefits of a structured methodology to implement better costing and budgeting across their organization

This online workshop is for new users of CBP responsible for building, validating and generating results from CBP models.  A step-by-step learning approach is used so that participants can follow along with the instructor through access to the CBP Cloud. Participants come away with “ready to apply” tips and techniques to enhance their CBP Modeler experience.

Participants will:

• Learn the architectural structure of CBP and the underlying QualiWare solution
• Understand the detailed concepts of BPAC diagrams using the building blocks of CBP
• Explore the various data entry templates, results display options, and how to validate models
• Learn how to automate data entry and results integration
• Develop CBP reports and export CBP results to Excel or BI tools for further analytics
• Understand how to use the CBP Support Portal for additional assistance

NOTE: Participants must have completed another BPAC workshop before attending this more technical session