Manufacturing Magazine November 2015 | Page 50

BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO - SOUTHERN AFRICA

2,500

Number of Employees at British American Tobacco SA that there is clear visibility to management from efficiency , inventory management and all the financial control requirements .

“ We also do external benchmarking , since often non-tobacco related industries also have some very good standards that can be reapplied , particularly with Lean , 6sigma and Integrated Works Systems . If there ’ s a best practice in another industry , we are not shy to apply it to our own .”
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