We offer tailored services ranging from complete company turnarounds to specific studies, from straightforward audits to complex change management projects.

We have actually developed our expertise into a unique scheme for manufacturing companies:

• addressing all aspects of operations (Sales, Manufacturing, Logistics),
• and combining operational and financial performance evaluations.

This scheme, aimed at significantly increasing the EBITDA through systematic and continuous operations improvement, is particularly suitable for

• distressed and turnaround situations,
• business development and expansion.

It may include a distinct audit phase with quantified assessments, which can enhance the due diligence process in a private equity investment context.

Typically, once confirmed by a feasibility audit, this scheme has proved to achieve significant results over a one- to two-year period.

To companies considering an operations upgrade, we can offer the following schemes (please note that these schemes are intimately intertwined):

• Dr Schonberger's World Class by Principles (WCP): improving structural operational performance;
• Lean Manufacturing: reducing wastage of resources along the manufacturing processes, from suppliers to customers;
• Total Quality Management (TQM): reducing process variations and rejects through overall process control;
• Total Preventive Maintenance (TPM): reducing downtime, equipment-induced process variations and overall maintenance costs.

These schemes are run as 9- to 18-month continuous improvement projects, with achievements closely monitored by selected indicators.

We may run more specific improvement projects on an ad-hoc basis, whenever deemed relevant, such as sales team organisation, costing and pricing, scheduling optimisation, inventory management, Kanban-based flow, production line efficiency (OEE), change-over time reduction (SMED), machine cycle time reduction, time & motion studies, …