What gets fixed
Six reasons people call.
They rarely arrive alone. Late orders, bloated inventory and a schedule that slips are usually the same problem seen from three different chairs. Pick the one that sounds most like your week.
- 01
Your plant manager just left
"My plant manager just left and nobody is running the floor."
The seat is filled while you find the right permanent person.
- Interim chief operating officer
- Interim president
- Interim supply chain director
- 02
You are missing what you promised customers
"We keep missing delivery dates and customers are noticing."
On-time delivery is the number your customers judge you on.
- Schedule adherence
- Supplier development
- Lead time reduction
- 03
Too much cash tied up in inventory
"We are sitting on too much inventory and it is eating our cash."
Cash sitting in parts nobody needs this quarter.
- Inventory control systems
- Production and demand planning
- Working capital recovery
- 04
Your plant is falling behind
"How do I turn around a plant that is underperforming."
Safety, quality and efficiency, looked at together.
- Plant management
- Lean manufacturing
- Process engineering
- 05
Your schedule keeps slipping
"Our production schedule is always behind and nobody can tell me why."
A schedule that looks right on Monday and is gone by Wednesday.
- ERP and MRP rollouts
- SAP and warehouse systems
- Scheduling adherence
- 06
Your team will not execute
"My team will not get behind the changes we need to make."
Decisions get made where the work is, or they do not get made.
- Change management
- Management structure
- Cross functional teams
None of those quite it?
Describe it in your own words. 45 years of manufacturing operations covers more ground than six cards.