Why 5S?

5S has many purposes. We will find that the basic purposes as stated in some books and internet will be

1) Improvement in Operation Efficiency

2) Improvement in Safety

3) Improvement in Morale

However, Why is 5S important to our organization?

Before implementing 5S in our organization, we must understand that 5S final aim is to make everybody in the organization live in happiness.

What is happiness to employee or employer in working organization?

- Basic Salary, Bonus Up (Have enough money to enjoy life)

- Able to use Paid Vacation without any problem (Have enough Time for private life)

Simple isn't it? Our organization must have enough profits to make people happy.

As we all know, the profits come from the clients, therefore in order to make the client choose us we must be able to make them feel relieved (cost/quality) and safe (delivery).

No matter how big the organizations are, our clients are also people like us. So everybody wants to feel secure and relieve with every activities or decisions they made.

What I am trying to explain here is that 5S is a method to deliver security and safety to your client to make them choose you in their business decision. However, the problem is, have the products that our clients bought from us satisfies them to compare with our competitors? The answer would be, in order to make our clients keep choosing us, we need to innovate our management system. Therefore we have to collaborate in a lot of dimension to use the management resources effectively for the revitalization of our organization. By using 5S method properly we will make our clients feel safe and secured. As a result our company's sales will increase and gain enough profits. 5S implementations will make us able to innovate the internal and external of the management environment. 

What I meant from the Internal Environment Innovation are:

(1) Reconsidering/reconstruct attributes of the organizational function.

(2)Clear Mission to all functional department/group in organization.

(3)Clear Mission to all position/duty/work unit/training.

On the other hand, the External Environment Innovation are:

(1) Application of data analysis (Sales, Production, etc) in decision making.

(2) Continuous Markets, Clients, Products, Competitors Analysis.

(3) Strategies and Tactics designing/planning.

5S is not just a tool to clean your workplace, correct understanding of the concept will make us see larger image to solve a lot of problems in our organizations. I am not saying that 5S will solve everything but by implementing 5S we will visualize our organization's problems and make us able to build strong beam to stabilize our organization. If there is any organization that can successfully implement 5S, I am 100% sure that they will be able to implement any higher level management methods or technologies in their organization. 5S will be a good benchmark to label the level of our management systems. This is the reason why I would like to suggest to apply 5S in your organization.