One of the main areas of our business expertise lies in streamlining manufacturing processes for casework, millwork, and woodwork industries. If your business needs to combat any of the lingering manufacturing problems, such as inventory inaccuracy problems, production misallocation, order completion issues, or simple data entry errors – our business consulting services will be of great value to you. We analyze and improve performance at all stages of a manufacturing process, including:

Scheduling. Accurate scheduling of manufacturing processes is highly important to successful project management and overall profitability. It requires precise timing of materials, space, and labor resources to meet specific project goals, and anticipating your resource needs into the weeks and months ahead. Poor scheduling results in unaccounted for overtime and materials, along with widespread disarray, and decreased profitability. Accurate scheduling is impossible without doing your homework, such as estimating, creating departmental work flows, and effective material procurement. The tools provided by our consulting team will increase your scheduling accuracy and enable you to schedule by a number of variables, including labor resources, departments, shifts, projects, etc.

Order Fulfillment. As a result of poor business processes, managers often are not aware of any problems before the order hits the door. We consult on how to improve the order fulfillment process, both for regular and special orders, to eliminate any ordering and purchasing errors: our methods will ensure that potential mistakes are caught up front to ensure accurate delivery. If before your shop personnel used work orders to build units, pull components, and schedule production with the sole purpose to meet customer expectations, with our tools your shop personnel will use work orders to optimize each run as well. We will make sure that the entire transaction cycle from order entry to production to fulfillment is seamless. If before your employees competed in terms of how fast each order was fulfilled, our business process will instead bolster your profitability and customer confidence with completely automated control over inventory and back orders.

Inventory. Inventory is an important factor in the production process. We provide you with business tools to sustain accurate inventory, produce instantly viewable reports, increase margins and determine whether and where to cut inventory. Our ultimate desired result for you is to reduce your inventory while keeping the production process efficient and increasing sales. We improve planning, forecasting, and replenishment processes, analyze inventory situation using lead times, economic order quantities, cost factors, and other requirements.

Labor and Materials Planning. With correct planning and information technology management tools, you are enabled to efficiently coordinate material planning with other inputs, such as from the engineering team or procurement department; you are also enabled to improve forecasting and reduce inventory waste. We help you control and plan your labor and materials costs.

Power of Technology/ Data Exchange. To accomplish any of the goals above, it is an absolute must to have a data-sharing technology and collaboration of various departments. Data necessary for full collaboration should exist in a centralized location. We analyze and consult you on your existing software, or advice you on how to migrate your company to a more appropriate software with powerful functionality. With the ability to completely trust the information you enter, you can finally start relying exclusively on your system to drive all critical business processes. Managers, workers, project managers, and all other constituents of the manufacturing process, fed by real-time transaction and inventory information, will be able to always stay on top of the complex, high-volume projects.

Our professional business consulting team will help you improve both efficiency and yield in your production processes, cutting the amount of waste. We use advanced business concepts and utilize technology to eliminate waste and streamline the production process, while improving quality and increasing profitability to set the stage for your company’s future growth.