Well prepared financial accounts for any business give an excellent insight into the relevant efficiency of that business. The cold hard figures give an immediate statement of your return on assets, stock turnover, cash management, workforce productivity etc.
That’s fine but how, having taken these figures on board, do you make immediate and long-term improvements to your business?
At ags, we are always trying to offer our clients significant added value. To this end we are introducing a new:
Business Consulting Service
- dedicated to the improvement of your company's efficiency and bottom line performance.
In keeping with our own high professional standards this service will be delivered by people who are working with leading companies across the UK and Europe.
As partners in the Integra Network* we are now able to bring the relevant experts in, to address your specific needs.
What does this mean in real terms?
Regardless of what type of business you are, the elimination of waste – anything that does not add value to the customer – is vital to your profitability. An initial review of your business processes – Value Stream Mapping - will give an early indication of the areas for improvement.
Some areas of concern might be tackled quickly and we can certainly provide the expertise for ‘quick hit’ project work. It is our recommendation however, that you look beyond the ‘current crisis’ to the future challenges.
In a service sector company, the issues will probably be centred on the response to your customers needs, your business processes, internal and external communications, service supplier management, and staff customer care competence.
All of these issues apply equally to a manufacturing company but there are important additional issues surrounding the manufacturing operations. These are mainly concerned with factory scheduling, stock control and productivity issues.
Regardless of the type of organisation that you are; the most important ingredient in any successful ‘business improvement programme’ is the total ‘buy-in’ of the companies senior management to a continuous improvement and continuous learning culture involving the entire workforce. We would welcome the opportunity to help you achieve this paradigm shift for your organisation.
An important aspect of our service is the identification of possible project funding stream opportunities for our clients.
Outline of Consulting Services
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Review of total company activities.
1. Benchmarking
2. Process Mapping
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Strategic marketing review.
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New Product Development.
1. Quality Function Deployment (QFD) to ensure a product design is well matched to meet customer needs.
2. Design for Manufacture (DFM) to ensure that a design can be manufactured in a productive fashion.
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Enterprise Resource Planning.
1. Better management of ‘work in progress’, stock and purchasing activities through modern Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.
2. Just in Time (JIT) systems – Kanban.
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Lean Manufacturing.
1. Waste Reduction programmes.
2. Continuous improvement system - Kaizen.
3. 6 Sigma.
4. 5 S's
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Equitable shop-floor payment schemes designed to enhance productivity.
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‘Key worker’ leadership training – team building, project management, change management.
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Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) concerned with overall equipment effectiveness.
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Environmental Issues.
1. Energy Efficiency Audits.
2. Environmental Audits and Management Systems.
3. Health and Safety Audits and improvement programmes.
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