Don't Just Make A Change In Your Business Because You Want To

Making a change for the sake of making a change is a bad idea. There has to be a plan and there has to be a reason to make the change. The reason should be well thought out and all of the options available should be weighed out. Making a change that doesn't have benefits such as saving money is not worth making. Now, how it saves money may differ between the options.
It may perhaps be a brand new approach to the process that utilizes much less material. Employing less material will save funds over the long run. Not only do you have to acquire fewer materials, an immediate savings, you do not have to store as several materials which can translate into savings. The new method may save time. This indicates that you simply can produce far more items in much less time and with far fewer man hours.
Labor is usually the most expensive part of any process and so when you save time and labor, the money saved will multiply. Any way that you can save money is a positive, but when you can save large chunks of money, it is even better. And when you save money, that money can then be reinvested in the business through new equipment or new employees or whatever it is that you need to grow. The point is, that when you are wasting money, even small amounts of money here and there, it leaves less capital to do the things that you really want to do for your business.
Labor may be saved in a lot of various techniques, but not being productive because of something which can be rectified, is the most egregious. It is like throwing money right into the trash and you are going to never recoup those losses. Standing around idly because you're waiting on more work or because another process is holding you up is a complete waste of money. These problems are easy to identify because all you have to do is search for the guy just standing or sitting there, not doing any work.
You are not able to necessarily blame him for having nothing to do, but you can blame the process and that is the place that you have to look to fix. Fixing the problem might be a bit more difficult, but looking at all of the parts and thinking about the problem is a start. If you don't identify the problem and just keep ignoring it, it's going to never be fixed.