Singh You might consider it from a different perspective. No data? How do you know you have a problem? How does your sponsor know there is a problem? is your sponsor saying no resources because they have not seen any indication there is a problem? Have you given them any indication of potential benefits? If you did what data was that based on? What did the products cost last year versus what should they have cost?
Your plan to collect baseline data is to exotic and way to time consuming. It is actually ridiculous. I wouldn’t fund that myself.
In an assessment we can run down a line with about 10 minutes at each operation collecting data by hand, with a stopwatch, run in a spreadsheet and be pretty accurate. You want better data do it 3 days in a row you will be pretty close to dead on.
I think the bigger problem is that your management is not selecting projects. That is their job but it is pretty unlikely you will change that. I would start looking for a different job in a company where management understand what it takes to improve. They want to delegate to you and you can’t figure it out because you have nobody to delegate to. Somebody needs to start doing their job.
Just my opinion.
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