I initiated and led a process review for the reduction of the routing time on our BOM's, two parts of the process were slowing it down. First, Purchasing's function are in the middle of the process. Which means the purchase order cannot be issued until the three departments before us in the process take up to three days to finish their assigned tasks. Also, once the Purchasing Department places the order, we have to wait five days for the supplier to ship the ISO 9001:2000/AS9100-compliant parts. As you know, at the present time, the BOM's are routed as follows: Accounting, Sales, Scheduling, Purchasing, Accounting, Scheduling, Master Scheduling. In the new process we are able to get the consolidation of the number of steps from seven to five. Non-value-added processes were removed, and steps were eliminated so that no department will be affected by long wait times. We have had two jobs that have gone through the new process to test its effectiveness, average time from issuance of the purchase order is approximately one day. The average total time for creating the BOM is 21 days, down from 28 days. The new process routes the BOM's in the following order: Purchasing