Background: The company was keen to develop its Lean capability and deploy continuous improvement across all its European sites. They had no previous skills or ability to deploy training and build their capability. Situation: The company was a high user of material,...
Background:Covid had a massive impact on manufacturing supply chains due to the wholesale suspension of travel and working from home. In this article we share our experience of the impact of covid on an FMCG supply chain and how this was managed to gain back control,...
Situation: This medical devices supplier and aftermarket provider had started their Lean journey through the application of specific lean tools. Progressing their Lean journey, the leadership were keen to align their improvement activity to their strategy and embrace...
Background: The initial Lean deployment in this organisation followed the classic model of top down deployment of Continuous Improvement leaders at a site level. This organisational structure also included the non-manufacturing areas. Situation: Several surveys and...
Background:Low manufacturing cell performance due to poor raw materials availability led to a request to value stream map 2 factories and 1 warehouse in the USA. Situation: There was a highly volatile supply chain with poor communications and numerous elements of...
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