Focus on Manufacturing Resource Productivity to Protect Profits
Manufacturing |production costs is a hot topic in business today. Prices for raw materials, energy, and water have seen sharp increases.
Manufacturing Consulting Overview
Effective to Optimal
Innovate Manufacturing to enable business value and agility
It is generally accepted that manufacturing is a key function which directly impacts a company’s cost position and its ability to meet customers’ demands. Today, businesses are focused on improving manufacturing efficiency because many know their operations are far from optimal. The root cause of this issue is that managers focus specifically on one element of manufacturing rather than the entire operation or organization.
WGA’s takes a more holistic approach in looking at manufacturing as an integral part of the fabric of the organization in order to:
- Optimize the shop floor
- Ensure simple and transparent links between the supply chain and manufacturing
- Align the entire manufacturing enterprise to enable
the overall business strategy - Reduce the inter-dependencies between manufacturing and product complexity
- Select the right sourcing for non-core / commodity activities
- Transform the manufacturing footprint based on clients’ geographical, customer and commercial needs
WGA’s Manufacturing Consulting Offerings
We transform shopfloor efficiency through the use of world-class Lean Six Sigma manufacturing tools and principles. We examine and conduct benchmarking using industry standards based upon WGA’s Recommended Current Practices (RCP) (e.g. maintenance, facilities, cleaning standards, technologies, methods, practices, process), manufacturing costs and productivity profiles to industry competitors.
Shop floor Improvement
Indirect Overhead streamlining
- Lean Six Sigma
- Cost Improvement Projects
- Kaizen
- Competency building
- Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
- Visual Factory
- 5S, 6S and 7S deployment
- Plant Layout/flow optimization
- Cell/line process improvement
- Logistics/inventory optimization
- Yield/quality improvement
- Utilization/OEE improvement
- Process waste and bottleneck elimination
- Value stream mapping
- Business process management
- Industry benchmarking
- Management Execution Systems
- Lean Culture Deployment
- Operational Excellence
- Workforce right sizing
- Lean administration and support functions
- Production planning and scheduling
- Production engineering/standards
- Maintenance benchmarking
- Facilities optimization
- Warehouse outsourcing/in-sourcing
- Leadership development
- Manufacturing Footprint optimization
- Simplifying Complexity
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Sr. Director - Business Systems$38B Aerospace & Defense Contractor
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Vice President Operations$34B Industrial Products Manufacturer
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General Manager Shared Services Organization$439B Integrated Oil Company
Our Global Services & Support business unit was working with our internal business partners to develop our 2030 business strategy roadmap. We were having difficulty with prioritizing our business needs. Some of our supply partners needed a firm picture of our roadmap immediately in order to formalize commitments. We reached out to one of our strategic consulting suppliers for assistance, but they wouldn’t be able to dispatch a team to help us for over 3 months. That’s when I called WGA. As a true partner, WGA had their team on the ground 2 days later and we were able to complete our strategy and planning efforts in just 6 weeks! WGA is now our go to/preferred strategy consulting supplier.
Director Business Planning$95B Aerospace and Defense Manufacturer
WGA Consulting, WGA Advisors, WGA360, Brian and his teams provide exemplary strategy and management consulting services. We have been a reoccurring client for the past 10 years. We turn to WGA when we need fresh ideas and innovation, to resolve big problems and when we need to successfully complete initiatives. Don’t use McKinsey, BCG, Bain, etc, call on WGA instead. Read more
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Vice President Manufacturing Operations$19B Global Automobile Accessory Manufacturer
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