Performance improvement

Operational activity is a key part of every business. This is why most of your employees, money resources and assets are likely allocated within operations or supply chain. No wonder that only those can win competition, who better manage their production and supply chains activities.

At the time of rising input cost and a new sources of low cost competition imposing more pressure on prices, continued concentration of markets meaning that bigger, more powerful customers will demand more from their suppliers, whilst conventional marketing strategies have less effect in a time-sensitive, on-demand world, it is important for companies, striving to gain a competitive advantage in a modern world, to critically assess their operational processes and evaluate the effectiveness of their supply chain.

Scope of operational consulting

Operational consulting deals with an extremely wide range of issues like developing and managing processes, resources and control systems used in goods and services production with the required quality levels and optimum costs. However, this is only a glance inside; for full development of the potential, when providing consulting services, we also allow for external aspects like management and coordination of the entire supply chain from raw materials to end users.

The major task of efficient production activity is to meet customer’s needs and expectations through high levels of resources utilization at minimum cost. All this should be achieved despite constant change of client’ requirements, which are difficult to predict.

What we do:

Operational consulting is our core specialization. Our consulting services can help you identify weaknesses, mobilize hidden potential and build an effective and adaptable organization.

Our consulting services include:

Operational efficiency – development of processes and determining optimum resources required for production and distribution of goods and services to achieve quality service that meets requirements of clients.

Operations and sales planning – development and implementation of enterprise production system the cornerstone of which is S&OP (Sales & operational planning), aimed at improving forecasting accuracy.

Processes optimization – our experts’ system approach to analyzing processes allows developing comprehensive yet flexible solutions for your organization to ensure sustainable business positioning aimed at achieving its objectives.

Inventory management – consulting on reducing excessive stock and investing into formation of proper inventory volumes to achieve improvement of the service level, higher inventory turnover and healthier business structure.

Supply chain management – assessment and identification of bottlenecks, development of key performance indicators, integration aspects, implementation plans including resources, realization deadlines and results to be provided.

Lean production – development and implementation of technologies like Lean Production, 6 Sigma, JIT, Kaizen and other efficiency increasing methods.

Effective procurement –implementation of electronic procurement systems, development of policies and procedures, contract revisions, supplier performance evaluation and rationalization, tender management.

Management dashboards – development of monitoring tools with easy-to-read charts showing the current state and historical trends of key performance indicators for the company.

Benefits for clients: 

The outcome of an organization’s operations and supply chain activities is probably the most important aspect of a business strategy. As consumers, we face organizational strategy’s and business plans’ results every day. Therefore, it is very important to take a complex view of operational processes and ensure consistency of marketing and corporate strategies, answering the question ‘What to do?’, with production and supply chain strategies answering the question ‘How to do?’ Our consulting services can provide the following advantages:

1. EFFICIENT CONTROL of resources (including Human resources), production facilities and operational expenses.
2. INTEGRATION with the organization’s other functional departments and services like finance, marketing, HR etc.
3. PRODUCTION STRATEGY, which enables a company to prioritize its investment plans and compete more effectively.
4. LIQUIDITY MANAGEMENT as a major factor of a company’s profitability.
5. PROCESS DESIGN giving more flexibility of operations with lower expenses.
6. DYNAMIC PLANNING and control systems.