Manufacturing
 What our Clients want
- Improved end-to-end supply chain management
- Improved operating margins
- Reduced cycle times and improved delivery reliability
- Reduced overhead expenses
- Reduced capital requirements
- Improved safety
- Better management and employee morale
What we do
- Improve demand forecasting, production planning and order scheduling
- Improve the data integrity of ERP systems
- Identify bottlenecks in the operations that restrict throughput
- Identify operating problems that cause process down time
- Reduce material unit costs through improved yields
- Install layout and process changes to smooth work flow and free up constraints
- Increase equipment and line utilization (uptime)
- Align and coordinate functions such as purchasing (balance inventory requirements), engineering, quality (supplier management), and maintenance (both preventive and reactive)
- Provide supervisors with the tools required to control the flow of work through the production cycle and to improve communication between departments
- Provide management with coordinated and comprehensive operating reports to help them manage the business
Our experience
- Process-oriented, fabrication and assembly-oriented manufacturers throughout North America and Europe
- Light and heavy equipment operations
- Food processing and bottling operations
- Unionized and non-unionized environments
- Integrate with existing six sigma and lean teams to drive measureable results
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