We Help Companies Struggling With Operational Inefficiencies

 

 

KANO consultants have deep expertise in helping companies with operational efficiency issues. Companies that may be facing operational challenges often struggle with inventory issues, product costing and product margin challenges, and bottlenecks caused by poor scheduling.

Better Product Margins And Superior Tracking Of Costs

Product margins declining because of the lack of traceability of costs? Operational inefficiencies driving the product costing and profitability issues? Companies seek help from KANO when they need help in solving operational inefficiencies related to product margins and costing.

Optimized Inventory Planning

Struggling with inventory planning? Significant inventory variances across processes? Inventory stockout issues and supply chain challenges because of that? Companies seek help from KANO when they need help with inventory planning.

Revenue Optimized Through Superior Packing And Dispatch Processes

Can’t capitalize on the synergies available through better management of shipments and movements? Don’t have data to support your decision science after goods leave your dock? Companies seek help from KANO when they need help with superior packing and dispatch processes.

Superior Scheduling Of Resources And Equipment

Struggling to schedule your resources and equipment because of the ad-hoc planning variables on the shop floor? Challenges in building consensus in corp-wide scheduling synergies? Companies seek help from KANO when they need help with the scheduling of resources and equipment.

Better Preventive Maintenance Of Assets

Facing operational disruptions because of the unexpected downtime of the assets on the shop floor? Don’t have a preventive maintenance schedule in control because of the data siloes. Companies seek help from KANO when they need help with better preventive maintenance of assets.

Superior Integration Of Operational Processes

Operational processes disjointed? Not able to plan operational resources because of the poor integration of processes and data? Companies seek help from KANO when they need help with superior integration of operational processes.

Our Services For

Operational Inefficiencies

 

KANO offers several services to help with this challenge, such as operations transformation, operations technology architecture, operations software selection, operations planning, inventory, warehouse, and logistics optimization, and supply chain footprint planning and optimization.

Operations Transformation

Our Operations Transformation services start with an assessment of the current pain points with the current systems and existing operations processes, metrics, and technologies. The assessment results in building high-level as-is and to-be processes and change management and process reengineering recommendations. Depending upon the changes required, the changes could be as small as a process or data changes. Or a complete process and technology transformation.

Operations Technology Architecture

This service helps build operations technology architecture depending upon the number of systems involved in different areas of operations planning, such as MES, CMMS, EAM, QMS, S&OP, TMS, or WMS. This service ensures the process boundaries of different systems, including master data governance workflows, and how all the systems would work together to deliver on the process and planning goals as per desired KPIs.

Operations Software Selection

This service helps in selecting different operations software, including buy vs. build decisions. The process starts with setting clear boundaries of the process and interaction flow for the desired component, then building requirement and solution matrix to evaluate different solutions, including RFP development, vendor negotiations, and the voting process for the selection.

Operations Planning

This service helps in optimizing operations, whether your current issues might be related to scheduling, asset maintenance, quality, or transportation planning. The service starts with the analysis and assessment of your current KPI and issues, followed by a root cause analysis, and then finally, a systemic change approach, whether the changes may be related to the processes or data.

Inventory, Warehousing, And Logistics Optimization

This service helps with inventory, warehousing, and logistics optimization whether you are struggling with inventory excess and obsolescence issues, whether you are trying to improve any KPIs such as dock-to-stock ratio or inventory turns. This service takes a comprehensive approach to analyzing your current warehouse design, material flow, and network design. And finally recommends any changes, whether they might be system or process related, to meet the efficiency goals.

Supply Chain Network Design And Footprint Optimization

This service helps in designing the network when you might either be 3PL or need a complete supply chain traceability across carriers. As each shipment moves through each movement, your traceability challenges could be figuring out how you might be able to optimize the container space and revenue. As well as building the Supply Chain control tower.

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