Generally organizations team with our program because they have inefficiencies, they have pain points, they have problems that they need to solve and either don’t have the expertise or the time to do it themselves. We often are augmenting ongoing work to run the businesses and improve them at same time. In general categories, the list below represents the focus of most of our 300+ projects completed since 2007.
- Improve capacity, eliminate bottlenecks
- Reduce Working Capital, Inventory Management Improvement
- Improve throughput yield
- Reduce cycle and/or lead times
- Improving forecast accuracy
- Improving Measurement Systems and enabling improved PDSA cycles
- Improving resource scheduling
- Increasing packing accuracy for outbound orders
- Improving on-time shipments
- Improving billing accuracy and reducing delays in receivables
- Understand and reduce process variation and process defects
- Improve Routing efficiency (balanced scorecard approach)
- Reduce Set-up times
- Reduce patient wait times and increase patient/customer satisfaction
- Eliminate waste from transactional processes
- Designing, Development, Implementing Visible Measurement Systems, Operational Analytics Systems