A business process reengineering study on the import department of ABC Bank

Date of Publication

1996

Document Type

Bachelor's Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering

Subject Categories

Engineering

College

Gokongwei College of Engineering

Department/Unit

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Abstract/Summary

ABC Bank (not the real name) is one of the five highest capitalized banks in the Philippines. With the recent liberalization of the Philippine banking industry in 1995, the members of the Administration at ABC Bank's international division have expressed their concern over the competition that is posed by the foreign banks and other non-bank monetary institutions. The Executive Vice-President of the International Division presented the study group with the possibility of meeting or exceeding international import financing operations and practice standards for head-to-head competition with the foreign banks.From an extended appraisal of the Import Department's present system, the study group identified the Import Department's main problem as system obsolescence : there has been no change in the system of the Import Department of ABC Bank since 1976 despite a 193 change in yearly transaction volume since that time. Following this statement, sub-problems related to the absence of evaluation procedures, lack of equipment, the absence of appropriate training, unnecessary overtime, and redundancy of forms were identified.The main objective of this study is to revise the design of the system of the Import Department to meet the increasing volume of import transactions and provide better services to customers. To achieve this objective, this study developed means of regular evaluation of processes, performance, industry and customer requirements and levels of satisfaction updated the Bank's management policies and principles to meet the needs as determined from the evaluation procedures and developed means for continuous education of both management and staff. For these ends, the study group designed a system that reduced the number of manual tasks by 74 and the number of officer or manager checking tasks by 56, eliminated all unnecessary requirements, duplicate forms, ineffective and excess work included empowerment in trade financing terms negotiation and decision making ensured zero floats, and the correspond

Abstract Format

html

Language

English

Format

Print

Accession Number

TU07279

Shelf Location

Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall

Physical Description

154 numb. leaves ; Computer print-out.

Keywords

Banks and banking; System analysis; Production engineering; Export-import trade

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