Structured approach
Over 95% of our existing clients experience better than forecasted profit improvement.
How do we do it?
By using a methodology that enables our team to provide you with long-term, sustainable benefits:
Technical improvements - what gets done, by whom and how well. Improvements can relate to a single department or function, such as product assembly, or to cross-functional areas such as supply-chain management.
Behavioural changes - increased levels of management and employee engagement to continuously strive to be better than the competition.
Our four-phased structured approach has been proven to solve a multitude of client problems in a wide range of industries:
- Rewards – Apart from financial rewards, our clients find the change in the attitude of their managers and supervisors very positive and empowering.
- Builds trust – Structured communication mechanisms tailored to the different levels within the organization, from the front line staff to senior management, ensure that the project progress from both a financial and an operational sense is communicated to the organization.
- Encourages collaboration – Our clients benefit from a decision making environment that is collaborative and fact based.
- Creates sustainability – Our clients continue to use our structured approach to achieve gains long after our project team has left the site.
- Educates – Our training director ensures that the training delivered at each client is customized to their needs. Hands-on training provides our clients with the opportunity to implement their ideas.
During this initial phase, our analysis experts objectively evaluate the value that our services can provide through an understanding of the financial opportunities and your organization's readiness to embark on a major change.
[CLOSE]Many organizations qualify for a no-cost "productivity analysis", where we will identify and then quantify the value of improvement.
[CLOSE]Workshop training supported with coaching.
[CLOSE]Our confidence to deliver results in a variety of situations stems from the Grant Thornton structured approach to projects. Below are some project examples:
- Increased revenues for distributors and manufacturers of cleaning products
- Improved profitability through addressing issues such as product portfolio and pricing concerns and trade investment ROI issues
- Redesigned manufacturing product flow to alleviate bottlenecks and reduce WIP at a battery manufacturer and food processing plants
- Improved production throughput and plant productivity at pharmaceutical companies, food processing plants, mining sites and fishing companies
- Implemented supply chain management at consumer goods and printing companies
- Implement activity based costing and management
- Productivity
- Capacity
- Industry
- Yield
- Management
- System
- Process
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| End of project review When we leave, we ensure that our commitments, both financial and non-financial, have been achieved. In fact, so focused are we in meeting our commitments, 100% of our past clients act as future references. |
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