Operations Strategy Consulting

Guiding Your Operations Team to
Deliver The Business Strategy. 

Strategic
Re-design & Improvements.
Improving Process & People
to deliver your growth plans.

Whether you call it the Operations Strategy, the Manufacturing Strategy, Production Strategy, the team who turn the inputs into the outputs is critical to the future growth of your business, your organisation.

They take raw materials and parts from your suppliers, apply their skills, knowledge, experience and hours of labour to turn these into the outputs you have promised to customers. 

The way your Operations team work, the processes they use, the costs they incur, the speed they work at, the delivery times are critical to the your business, to delivering for your customers.

The Operations team is where you incur the largest costs for staffing, for technology (equipment and systems). 

It is the team where the customer promises are delivered from, the team who actually deliver the products and services that deliver your revenue.

To develop your Operations model, to deliver the growth you think is out there, you’d like a guiding hand.  For a start everyone has their day job, they are time poor to dedicate time to this activity. They’ve also got experience of what you do but what about ideas, best practices from outside? How can you challenge them to deliver for the future.

Your choice of Operations, Manufacturing Strategy and how to implement it to will have implications for your potential growth. 

For instance there are 5 different Operational Business Models you can adopt; most businesses need to consider at least two of these.  These models are typically;

• PROJECT  
• JOBBING 
• BATCH 
• LINE 
• CONTINUOUS PROCESSING 

Why do we say you need to consider 2 models?

As an example, if you sell Capital Equipment, it may be sold with a lead time, made to order.

You might also provide spare parts and servicing options for this equipment; these are likely to be needed quickly, picked from stock. Balancing an operation that makes equipment available immediately, from stock and based on specific orders requires different thinking BUT can be completed when you know how. 

The choice of Operational Process or model above has implications across many parts of the organisation and changes the choices you make.

Areas that your Operations Strategy can impact include;  you’re looking

• SUPPLIERS – How do you manage them? How will they grow? Can they help you with your plans? 
• CUSTOMERS – Are you making to order or to stock, both? What lead times do they require? Will you make more for existing customers or win new ones?   
• STOCK & INVENTORY – How much should you hold? Where should you hold it? Could stock enable you to be a more agile business? 
• RECRUITMENT & TRAINING – What skills will you need to develop? Which skills to recruit? How will you retain staff for the long term?
• COSTS – Do you Make or Buy? How will you control costs? Will you base costs on Throughput or retain the Material + Labour + Margin = Price that many firms use?
• KPIs– Growing your business means taking a different view; recording new & different KPIs. How will you record these? What does a good KPI look like? How do you make sure things stay on track?
• TECHNOLOGY – Digital systems, ERP, MRP, MPS, CRM – which will really drive your business forward, power your Operations Team? Which will consume time, resources, cash yet deliver little value? 
• IMPROVEMENT – Which improvement strategies will work for your business, as it grows? 

We’ve learnt that in many organisations the Operations Teams struggle to deliver the Sales Targets. What if this is holding you back?
We’ve developed Operations Management processes and services that helps firms to deliver quality work, faster, on time, at lower costs whilst overcoming the skills challenges many face in 2022.

Giving you the reassurance that your Operations team can deliver now and grow with your business plans, your operations strategy.

levantar  (verb) – to lift, to raise up

How can You use our Operations Strategy Consulting Services?

Operations Strategy Consulting.

• It’s simple to contact us; you either call on 07712 669396 , or email Mark@levantar.co.uk  . It’s free to get in touch. 
• We’ll get back to you to make time for a conversation to find out more about your business and the Strategy challenges you are facing.
• If we both agree that we think we can do something, whether it’s  work to Stabilise, Optimise or Grow your business, we we’ll work out how we can take it further. 
• You might need our Operations Strategy Consulting Service or perhaps a Lean Training Course or our Business Process Improvement Services are more applicable to Optimise your situation.
• You might want coaching for your Operational Management team or an Interim Operations Director to Stabilise your output, your production.  
• It starts when you contact us… find out how we might help. 

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Leeds University – Lean Management Workshops

Since 2010 we’ve taken well over 2,750 people through our Lean Manufacturing and Management workshop thanks to the Operations and Supply Chain team at Leeds University Business School.

Operations Strategy Consulting

Read the comments below, do you hear these or similar in your organisation?

They’re the conversations we hear every day when we are out and about starting with clients. Clients who are discovering the benefits of Lean Management.

• “Can we get this work done by close of play tomorrow?”
• “We’ve been asked to try and speed up our processes, is that possible?”
• “We need to ship this out by Thursday, otherwise there are penalties, it’s already two weeks late”
• “How long? If this doesn’t go by the end of the month we miss our targets”
• “The customer will go elsewhere if it takes too long..”
• “When will this part be in? we need it today, can you call the supplier?”

• “We can’t keep passing the prices rise on, what else can we do…? “
• “Our competitors have a lead time of 3 weeks can we do better?” 
• “We need to do overtime to try and catch the time up, the back log is building again..” 
• “Why can’t we recruit enough people? “
• “Can need to get more skills in our team to cope with the future..”
• “Our prices are going up we need to do something about them…”

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