Lean, TQM & Optimisation - Logistics Executive

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Lean, TQM & Optimisation

Unlocking Potential Through Operational Excellence

In a world marked by disruptions like COVID-19 and geopolitical uncertainties, operational excellence is no longer a luxury—it’s a necessity. Our consulting services help you harness operational innovation to meet this imperative. By combining lean methodologies with cutting-edge digital capabilities, we empower your business to eliminate waste, save money, and execute manufacturing strategies with precision.

Our approach integrates Lean Six Sigma, Total Quality Management (TQM), and Operational Excellence principles to transform your manufacturing, supply chain, and overall operations. We focus on high-value areas, such as Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), to identify and capitalize on key opportunities. Our selective deployment of lean and TQM tools ensures they align with your current strategy, delivering maximum value and enhancing the front line’s ability to adopt these changes.

Operational excellence goes beyond cost-cutting—it’s about supercharging efficiency and effectiveness across the operations value chain. This holistic approach can deliver impressive results, including a 5% to 15% boost to EBITA, significant cost reductions, and a substantial reduction in carbon footprint. Our consulting teams help you achieve these outcomes by enhancing service and quality, reducing costs, and mitigating risks.

We drive change from the ground up, ensuring frontline management leads the transformation and embeds new practices in daily routines. Our three-phase approach (diagnose, design, implement) quickly advances your operations to their future state. Using our Manufacturing Full-Potential Diagnostic, we assess your starting point across critical areas and apply proprietary benchmarking data to guide your transformation. Our digital capabilities reduce complexity and enhance productivity, ensuring you extract maximum benefits from digital lean.

Clients choose us to unlock new value rapidly, align operational excellence with business strategy, sustain long-term success, and build internal capabilities. By breaking down silos and enabling transparency, we optimize the supply chain across all functions. The result is a leaner, more agile enterprise ready to thrive now and in the future.

What We Do

Experience & Impact

25%

Potential cost reduction when combining digital and lean, compared to 15% using only traditional lean.

20%

Decrease in production time when adopting a lean approach.

30%

Typical boost to overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).

30%-50%

Improvement in quality.

Client Results

Advisory, Insight

Leaner, Stronger, Better: Integrating TQM for Operational Optimisation

Total Quality Management (TQM) represents a comprehensive, structured approach to organizational management. This methodology, aimed at enhancing quality and performance across all operations, is rooted in the belief that long-term success derives from customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Advisory, Case Studies, Industry

Strategic Supply Chain Transformation: Mastering Efficiency with Lean Management

Revolutionizing Supply Chain Management: A Groundbreaking Initiative Redefines Efficiency in Manufacturing Logistics, Ensuring Optimal Resource Utilization and Enhanced Operational Flow

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Our Experts

Mark Lutton

  • Head of Consulting
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  • Business & Logistics Strategy
  • Project Management
  • Logistics, 3PL & Supply Chain
  • Cold Chain Logistics
  • Operational Excellence
  • Lean Six Sigma Expert
  • Supply Chain Management Process Mapping
  • CEP Policy development and Implementation
  • Market Feasibility Studies
  • Warehousing & Distribution Expertise
  • Business Strategy & Business Plan Design
  • Transformation & Business Re-Engineering
  • E-Commerce & Last Mile Network Design

Biography

Mark specializes in revitalizing businesses and optimizing supply chains, leveraging his expertise in strategic planning, organizational restructuring, and driving operations excellence initiatives. The cornerstone of his approach is flawless execution, honed through extensive end-to- end supply chain project management experience, where he strategically allocates resources for maximum efficiency.

MBA-qualified with 25 years experience leading diverse teams and delivering successful projects he is a leader with global operations experience calling on a rich background of consulting assignments and an unwavering desire to improve the environment. Mark’s regional experience is across UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Oman for both the government and private sectors delivered consulting projects on feasibility and market studies, developing business plans, and executing the plans via transformation programmes. His, approach involves a thorough assessment of a business's strengths and weaknesses, leading to tailored, creative solutions that unlock its full potential

Mark’s experience ranges from research and development, production management, supply chain, industrial engineering through to chief operating officer in a range of consumer driven industries. He is considered an expert in creating strategic business plans, restructuring organisations or implementing lean management tools.

 

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