Most companies, regardless of their size or revenue stream continually miss opportunities to get the maximum value from their resources, especially their people and processes.  I have seen millions of dollars spent on audits, cost analyses, software solutions, etc. when the answers to 90% of the questions were in the processes.

Usually, if your processes are in trouble ... so is your company.  When was the last time you "looked" at your processes?  We can show you how to use simple tools, such as:

Value Stream Mapping - used to depict the flow of inventory (and the information related to inventory planning and control) through a "value stream supply chain", (which might span more than one company).

Spaghetti Diagram - shows a floor plan of your work area, and graphically shows the walk paths of each worker, and which operations are done where, and how much inventory is stored where.

Standard Work Combination Sheet - the ideal tool for designing and documenting Lean processes with short cycle times.  For example, a manufacturing process that takes five minutes, or a loan approval process that takes 2 hours)

Simple Flow chart - (without swim lanes) is probably the most familiar tool to graphically illustrate "who does what," and what decisions need to be made along the way. And we all know how many words one picture is worth...

Six Sigma toolsets - helps you look at various portions of your processes, organization, etc. using tools such as Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, Thought Map Relations Diagram,
Cause and Effect Matrix, Measurement Selection Matrix, SIPOC Diagram, Pareto Charts, etc.

Swim Lane Functional Flow chart - the ideal tool for designing and documenting processes with medium-length cycle times.  For example, a sales order process, engineering changes, or any process that takes days or weeks rather than minutes)

Since 1979, we have been advocates of solutions which bring out the best in processes -- those we owned, shared or eventually consulted on.  If you want to best use all of your resources ... baseline your processes, prioritize the key ones and go after continuous process improvements on them first. 

Then, return to your processes and repeat the "process improvement" steps.  Automated tools help a lot.

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