Operation Excellence
The current decrease of consumer demand and capital expenditure, increase of unemployment rate, and the expectation for inflation are forcing Chinese companies to push their limits and lower their costs in order to avoid profit margin decline.
As the competition is getting more intensive, Chinese companies have to develop operation excellence strategies to adjust and connect every value chain resources, in order to satisfy customers’ demand in the most efficient way.
By seizing fleeting opportunities, we help clients to sustain profitability and improve capability even in depressed markets.
We will deeply analyze each section in the value chain, from customer to company itself and suppliers, to eliminate varieties of wasting and coordinate production, supply and sales. Eventually we will link up customers’ processes and suppliers’ processes perfectly, and improve the Return On Assets through KPI management.
Presenting the entire value chain, leading the practical path:
- Oriented from the general corporation strategy, define the lean value chain strategy.
- Quantitatively analyze the opportunities to improve performance from the prospects of lowering costs, raising revenue and reducing operation capital.
- Build a lean cost accounting system, verify the quality costs.
Strengthening the supplier management, emphasizing Just-In-Time supply chain:
- Develop strategic suppliers, reduce the number of suppliers to a more sustainable level.
- Build a quantitative supplier management system, improve the supply performance.
Improve the overall productivity and customer service with Just-In-Time, automation, and level production concepts:
- Achieve transparent and steady production through 5S, supermarket, and balance capacity management.
- Achieve continuous flow and pull production through standardized operation, line switching time and takt time reduction.
- Build a pull production Kanban management system, and achieve one stream production and one set production.
Strengthen customer demand management, and achieve seamless connection with clients’ business processes:
- Segment Customers, identify customers' real demand and design customized supply chain models for each client.
- Deeply comprehend clients' business demand, and design solutions to improve the entire value chain.
- Optimize the delivery process and reduce overall inventory in the value chain.
Establish a planning and scheduling platform to coordinate production, supply, and sales:
- Establish a mechanism to constantly predict customer demand.
- Establish a business model for production, supply and sales functions, by designing a monthly S&OP process.
- Separate the production and sales function, and build a continuous improving mechanism through high level monthly S&OP.