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Focused Lean-SixSigma

Achieving breakthrough performance requires all of the powers of Lean and SixSigma. By focusing efforts on tackling strategic issues rather than incremental improvements, businesses can make substantial financial and strategic gains.  Examples of our successes include:

  • A $10 billion insurance firm made a $500 million improvement in run rate savings by launching a portfolio of strategic initiatives. These embedded manufacturing and complexity management practices into their businesses, converting metrics for customer satisfaction and loyalty into real-time improvements.
  • A global pharmaceutical company reduced spending by 20% ($50 million a year) by consolidating its global network of laboratories into fewer worksites, reducing non-value-added work processes, and improving efficiency at the sites.

A.T. Kearney has a four-step approach for achieving breakthrough results:

  • Establish breakthrough objectives;
  • Identify top initiatives and target processes;
  • Allocate resources;
  • Execute selected Lean and SixSigma initiatives.

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Optimising operations to deliver the customer value proposition at the lowest possible cost Eliminating waste and streamlining manufacturing processes to deliver only what customer values Applying and tailoring the best of lean methodologies and tools to the service sector Focusing efforts on tackling strategic issues rather than incremental process improvements firms can substantial financial and strategic gains Supply Chain Operating Model at how businesses need to structure themselves to win in an increasingly Global environment Open collaboration and tighter Integration across the entire supply chain can reduce costs, improve time to market, increase efficiency and enhance customer satisfaction Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) aims at balancing supply and demand in order to minimise inherent variability within the system and financial impact Complexity Management deals with managing complexity in areas of product portfolio, customer portfolio, locations / sites and processes Customer Integration helps tailor Supply Chains to maximise availability to customers and therefore be a major lever for top line improvements Strategic Sourcing enables an organisation to match its supply base performance with its business requirements financial discipline A.T. Kearney’s Assessment of Excellence in Procurement enables procurement organisations to drive their performance to world class levels Advanced procurement category solutions to enable clients to achieve economic benefits whilst enhancing overall supply base performance The world-leading tool to determine the appropriate strategy for every procurement category by addressing supply and demand conditions Physical Supply Chain projects are aimed at most effective alignment of the operational footprint with current and future business imperatives Reducing the capital requirements by focusing on stock management and financial discipline Optimising the end-to-end network using a combination own or third party tools as appropriate Driving excellence within a site operations through a mix of Lean and other performance enhancement tools