Improvement Project Management

With our Hoshin Kanri software, you get a comprehensive suite of project management tools for handling projects, programs, and individual tasks—everything you need for high-quality improvement project planning. These features ensure your strategic initiatives are executed effectively and stay aligned with your organizational goals.

Manage Project Planning

Amplon offers comprehensive project and program planning features. You can schedule projects, allocate resources, and attach supporting documents—all in one place.

Each project charter includes structured data fields to help teams clearly document their plans, while enabling faster approval processes for management.

Project scheduling in Amplon is not only intuitive but also highly flexible. You can build sub-project structures to manage even the most complex initiatives—giving you full control and confidence in execution.

Task Management

You can easily add tasks and deadlines to your projects. Combined with project–subproject structures, Amplon’s task management supports high-quality planning and clear accountability.

Document Linking

You can easily link Amplon to your SharePoint, OneDrive, or Google Drive to store detailed plans – or to reference legacy A3s, Excel spreadsheets and other documents.

By connecting directly to your supporting materials, Amplon helps you manage complex information and access it instantly with a single click.

Gantt Charts for an Overview of Your Schedule

The Gantt chart overview gives you a clear view of the schedule for each strategic project in your portfolio. With visual Gantt scheduling, you can easily identify resource constraints and other key factors.

Effective scheduling of improvement projects is crucial for successful strategy deployment—and staying on track is just as important.

Budgeting and Financial Follow-up

With Amplon’s project planning capabilities, you can manage your project budgeting with ease. This feature lets you track project costs, financial outcomes, such as cost savings, and future order intake.

Monthly financial reports provide clear insights into actual results, making financial forecasting simple and straightforward.

Project Management Features at a Glance

Standardized Project Charter: Utilize best-practice data fields for seamless communication and consistency across projects.
Comprehensive Portfolio Management: Manage projects with stage gates to ensure thorough vetting and progression. Features include assigning project managers, resource planning, budget planning, and project scheduling with Gantt chart visualization.
Project Structuring: Implement a project-sub-project structure to manage complex initiatives effectively. Share projects among multiple organizational units and teams for enhanced collaboration. This includes optional Task planning for projects.
Ownership and resourcing: Clear accountability is a cornerstone in getting things done. Plan project resourcing and ownership.
Project Prioritization and Approvals: Prioritize projects and manage approval processes efficiently, ensuring that high-priority initiatives receive the necessary attention and resources.
Document Linking: Adds links to external documents and folders for further information.
Budgeting and financial follow-up: Plan your budget for each project, including costs and expected financial outcomes. Track monthly spending and forecast.
Progress reporting: Traffic lights, progress, and regular comments give a clear overview of the status and progress. A full audit trail allows for retrospectives and continuous learning.

Digitalize. Simplify. Optimize.

Robust, intuitive, and built to fit your organization – Amplon is everything you need for Hoshin Kanri in one solution.