How we’ve helped our manufacturing clients

We have helped manufacturing clients with a range of issues including reducing the cost of poor quality, improving skills and competencies, ensuring process control and managing the supply chain and work environment. We helped large and complex manufacturers to:

• Develop a global improvement project to save £17 million in by reducing excessive warranty costs
• Reduce the cost of poor quality from 1.9% to 1.2% of sales
• Significantly increase the skills and competencies of employees to ensure on-going savings could be made through continual improvement.
• £22 million reduction identified in global operating costs (40 x ROI)

Tackling the cost of poor quality in terms of impact on profit and risk to reputation is one of the key challenges for manufacturers competing in today’s market. This is especially true as more and more organisations outsource their manufacture to low cost economies. Oakland Consulting can help your organisation to ensure on-time, on-cost, on-quality delivery whether you are manufacturing in-house or outsourcing to new suppliers.

Our manufacturing clients include

LM Wind Power, Mitie, Paradigm, Borealis, Pace, ABB, EADS, Nissan, Zobele, Fairchild USA, LBBC

What our manufacturing clients are saying

“We are off and running and I wanted to send you a note to let you know how pleased I am with our trainer. John has crafted together a training outline that exactly matches our expectations. He has engaged the team, and is working through real world problems and problem solving techniques at a level that is appropriate for our senior manager and director level audience. Additionally, he has done a nice job tying his content back to our theme of golden rule leadership ... leading like we'd want to be led. He's also incorporated a lot of EADS specific content, so it's helping our leaders understand their role in our larger organization.” Fairchild Controls USA - Scott Sellers (President)

To contact one of our Manufacturing consultants for immediate help or further information please contact us or telephone: +44 (0)113 234 1944