Maximizing productivity is essential to succeeding
in today's global market. We can provide the advice; funding and support that
you need to do this.
Benchmarking: We will work with you to
review your operations and identify areas where productivity could be improved.
Our experts will advise you on how to maximize your productivity. Benchmarking
and Best Practice provides a proven mechanism to help objectively identify and
prioritize areas for improvement within a business as well as giving a simple
way to measure progress over time.
Applied
Benchmarking for Competitiveness: Applied Benchmarking for Competitiveness
combines the basics of benchmarking and world-class business techniques in a proven,
effective form for small and medium sized companies. By taking a core of benchmarking
and world-class business techniques, companies can quickly achieve large and significant
gains and improvements in performance.
Quantitative vs. Qualitative Benchmarking:
Quantitative benchmarking looks mainly at the numbers or ratios of an operation
Qualitative benchmarking looks at the systems and the processes that deliver the
results. You must use both processes together. It is not enough to know that the
turnover per employee is lower than your competitors. You have to ask how you
can improve this ratio. To improve a process, you will have to have measures that
indicate where improvements can be made.
Our benchmarking solution
will help you to ---
- Assess your current
performance
- Interpret and analyze the results achieved
- Identify
your performance gaps against best practice
- Help with improvement plans
to close the gaps
- Monitor and evaluate the results of your improvement
plan.
- Benchmarking will analyze:
- Strategies
- Sales and Marketing
- Operations
-
Innovation
- People
- Finance
If the business has no strategic goal, if it does not have any objective for itself,
it can be difficult to motivate people for success. Applied Benchmarking for competitiveness
will show you how to start and develop your improvement process.
Supply Chain Management: We will work with
you to optimize performance in procurement efficiency warehousing, inventory planning
and other aspects of the supply chain. Supply Chain Management is about managing
the physical flow of product and the related flows of information from purchasing
through production, distribution and delivery of the finished product to the customer.
We can assist you with the quantification in financial and commercial terms of
the potential for improvement in your business, tailoring an implementation program
and the necessary training so that the maximum benefits can be achieved effectively
and efficiently.
Diagnosis:
Our approach involves a diagnostic audit of current practice and performance.
You will receive a report recommending an implementation program to achieve maximum
operational improvement at a pace your business can afford.
Implementation:
A consultant will facilitate the implementation process by providing technical
and training support.
