Compared with the NCR cost, warranty, LDs, penalty and etc., cost overrun is a kind of CoPQ caused by the non-conformity operations or non-optimized processes. But how to define a cost overrun as CoPQ is a headache for me for a long time. Everytime when I define a deviation between the actual cost and budget as a CoPQ by collecting the data from Finance Function, sb. or many people will block me with a lot of excuses. For instance, recently I reported a cost overrun of a project raw materials as CoPQ, but sb. told me that the cost difference between the actual cost and budget had already been covered by an impairement.
What could I do? From my CoPQ reporter side I insist that whatever excuses the deviation between actual cost and budget is a CoPQ without doubt- that disclosed an imperfect process need improvement definitely.
But for a better communication a cost overrun shall be clearly defined before being reported as CoPQ. Who can help me? Many thanks in advance. |