Lean Operations
Our team applies lean principles as a way to make change stick. At the heart of lean, beyond the myriad of tools available, is a cultural shift towards continuous improvement and a bias for change. Too often, companies get caught up with the flavor of the day of new and emerging theories for improving operations whether on the shop floor, administrative arena or in the executive suite.
Our team applies lean principles to help our clients see through the static of the day-to-day and help shine the light on where emphasis is needed to achieve results.
Lean principles applied:
- Redesign warehouse and facility layouts to eliminate wasted facility space and improve critical adjacencies to speed processing within the 4 walls
- Distinguish and separate value-added services (while eliminating non-value-added services)
- Facilitate shop floor operational improvements for large manufacturers
- Establish consolidation of DCs to reduce POs by vendors, reduction of inventory, increase fill rate, and overall reduction of freight
- Decrease lead times and inventory investments while increasing fill rates through inventory profiting and rationalization
- Enforce change management disciplines
- Identify postponement opportunities