What if you could cut your manufacturing lead times by 70% and free up half your inventory costs without buying any new equipment or hiring more staff?

Hi, I’m Jim McCallum. In this video, I’ll show you how to get your products through your factory faster to provide 100% on-time customer service, with lots less inventory, freeing up working capital you can use elsewhere.

Problem

You know the frustrations:

• Missing customer delivery dates despite your best efforts
• Struggling to find spare cash for investments that could grow your business
• Running out of physical space just when you need to expand

Part of my skillset is helping you resolve these problems by getting your products through faster. In days rather than weeks. In hours rather than days.

Solution

I’ll take you through a well-proven analysis that sets out where your red dot is on the top line here on my Path to Excellence you saw in video 1. And defines where potentially your green dot will be.

So, let’s look at it in more detail.

First, we’ll do a Walk-Thru of your manufacturing process to find out what DO you do now.

Together we’ll gather data at each step. And find out how much time you spend adding value.

Now you only add value when you change your raw material in some way closer to what your customer wants and is paying for.

That’s the only thing you do in manufacturing that adds value. And that’s typically less than ten percent of your total manufacturing activities.

Everything else you do adds cost but no value. And we want to eliminate as much of that as we can.

So, from that Walk-Thru we get your red dot position on that top line.

Then, I’ll help you create a Blue-Sky Vision of your process.

What COULD you do if you started again on a green-field site with no constraints. This changes your whole point of view on what’s possible in your process.

Then we bring back in some of the present constraints you face and work out what you CAN realistically achieve in the next few months.

And that gives you a Practical Vision to minimise your lead time through your factory. To find your green dot on that top line. To transform your business.

Proof

You can’t have a good transformation without a good vision. And that Practical Vision is what I help you achieve.

This whole process of Walk-Thru and Practical Vision takes just a few hours.

That’s all you need. No one else helps you like this.

Other consultants take days or weeks to analyse the Issues you face with your present process. I call that ‘Issues-led Consulting’. They then develop complicated Value Stream Maps that you can’t understand. And you certainly don’t need.

My unique approach gives you, within a few hours, a Practical Vision of what you can achieve. That’s called ‘Vision-led Consulting’ and is way faster and better than any other approach.

Value

Then, within a few months, after implementing your Practical Vision, you’ll have much shorter lead times through your factory, and a much more responsive customer service.

Which helps you bring in more business and more revenues. Increases your top line.

And it also reduces your inventories. Because they are directly proportional to lead time. So as your lead time reduces, your inventories reduce in proportion.

Which then frees up working capital that you can use elsewhere in the business.

All good, huh?

Typically, my clients reduce their lead times by over 70%. From 6 weeks to 5 days for example. And reduce their inventories by over 50%. Which generates huge savings in working capital. And also gives you more space for growth.

My clients were already successful companies to start with. But this way, they became even better. The best in their sector.

That’s what I do. Help you relieve the stresses and frustrations you face in running a manufacturing company. Help you make more money. And beat your competition. I’ll give you bigger benefits quicker than anyone else.

Every week your products sit in WIP is another week of cash trapped in your business instead of working for you. The longer your lead times, the further behind your competitors you fall.

Check out the other elements of my manufacturing excellence program by exploring my other videos. Or if you’re ready to discuss how this can be applied to your business, click below to schedule your free diagnostic call.

Don’t let your competitors beat you to market while your products sit waiting in your factory. The faster factory you’ve always wanted is already there. Let me help you uncover it.

Thank you.