Case Studies

Engaged Culture (Renewables Industry sector)

Successfully implemented 70+ effective communication systems.

450+ people use effective collaboration tools daily

6.5k - 7.4k hours/pa saved ($462k) by reduced meetings.

Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) (Energy Industry Sector)

5.4M cost OPEX reduction.

2000 hours removed from planning activities.

Reduction of £20M in materials stored.

Reduced warehouse storage by 40%.

Internal Capability Build (Renewables Industry Sector)

6 Business Agility Knowledge full day courses conducted.

100+ trained staff now lead change efforts in their own areas.

14 countries supported.

Supply Chain Risk Management & Warehousing Consolidation (Energy Industry Sector)

$15.0M ($9.5M temp storage) made available on SAP to the business.

$1.4 M (Book value) Disposed.

Obsolete or Surplus Stock Removed.

$11.4M (GOI) Additional Inventory Disposed.

Manufacturing Programme of Improvements (Energy Industry Sector)

Production increase from 11.6M to 14.6M = 26% increase

People in this process reduced from 30 to 8 = 75% reduction

Working hours from 59 hrs per week to 39 hrs per week = 33% reduction.

Stock reduction from 6.6M to 12,200 - 99.8% reduction.

Finance Deployment (Energy Industry Sector)

10M GBP revenue from improved lifting process.

Reduced use credit notes and purchasing errors by 60%. 1.8M GBP cost avoidance.

Implementation of new processes:

Quality improved from 70% defects to 20%

Process time reduced from 16 weeks to 1 week.

Improved customer service.

Production - Giveaway Case Study (Food Industry Sector)

65+ product codes that are bagged, projected savings for the year are estimated at £28,000+ in raw material costs and £70,000+ in sales prices.

0.95% average QA giveaway reduction on products reviewed (so far) vs target of 1% reduction.

60+ product codes to review on Bagging Lines.

BP UK - Purchase-to-Pay (Energy Industry Sector)

£5.4M cost OPEX reduction.

2000 hrs. removed from planning activities.

£20M Reduction of Client owned materials stored.

40% Reduction in warehouse storage.

76% Improvement: 6 week planning time frame achieved.

Operations Kaizen Events to support Production Challenge (Energy Industry Sector)

Temporary storage - 6.5M$.

Clair Flow Line & Installation Plan - 7.7M$.

Sea Water Lift Pump - 1639 Hrs.

Gas Turbine Setup Reduction - 2600 Hrs.

Pressure Saftey Valves (Engineering Sector)

Re-use of old valves in warehouse awaiting inspection.

Inventory Reduction through implementing stocking strategy.

50% reduction in repeat planning of PSV WOs.

Excess Pallet Movements (Food Industry Sector)

240 pallet spaces were cleared - cost avoidance of £137,372.

Reduction in pallet movements (Jan - June) of 3,400 - nearly 50% reduction - cost saving of £24,879 over the same time period (~£50,000 per annum).

500+ issues associated to original VSM / Kaizen Event - 30 related to warehousing.

Weatherford European Accounting Centre of Excellence (Energy Industry Sector)

Standardized processes reducing waste and duplication.

In country resource constraint risk eliminated.

In country cost reduction.

Improved quality: reporting and analysis.

AP Centralisation moving responsibility back to supplier.

Hours back to business.