Business System of Severstal (BSS) is a series of projects and initiatives
aimed at achieving
The five major development lines of the Business System are as follows:
- Continuous improvement
- Safety
- Customer care
- People of Severstal
- Business standard
By August 2013, the Business System has been distributed all over the company. It covered 108 areas at Severstal Russian Steel, 31 areas at Severstal Resources and 16 areas at Severstal International.
In 2013, the Business System projects resulted in saving approximately 171 mln dollars for the Russian Steel. The ingredients for this success: reduction of production cost for cast iron, saving in consumption coefficient costs, increase in generation of own electric power and cancelling to use a part of purchased electricity, reduction of administrative costs, etc. Thousands of employees contributed to the success of the company through implementing own ideas, using new instruments and approaches.
In August 2013, the following projects joined major development lines of Business System of Severstal:
- Projects with key promising customers aimed at developing new products, reducing time of delivery and increasing Severstal’s delivery share in compliance with customers demand rate;
- Equipment reliability control;
- Flow projects focused on enhancing delivery performance and developing the lean system of motivation, which provides support to improvements in the flow;
- Energy efficiency;
Quality flow control means