Operartions Improvement
- Evaluation of the overall production efficiency (reduction of downtime, implementation of the lean manufacturing methodology, setting up SMED practices, OEE assessment, ....)
- Optimisation of plant sizing, quantifying the necessary direct labour and indirect labour, setting up productivity-based remuneration systems, etc
- Methods and time line
- Management of production orders planning
- Factory layout
- Review of maintenance costs (setting up TPM methodology to optimise both preventive and corrective maintenance)
- Supplier portfolio review, strategies for re-negociation proposals and parameters and tools for monitoring supplier efficiency
- Revision and adjustment of procurement policy (MOQ, stock control, proper purchase investment levels...)
- Defining the procurement function, its key processes and necessary organisational structure
- Optimisation of logistic services (service levels, store sizing, inventorign control, dispatch flow, etc...)
- Business processes outsourcing
- Strategic analysis of offshoring opportunities
- Quality improvement methodology