Process & Operations Efficiency

Partnering with our clients, Innovating Operations collaborates and improves operations across many industries including material management and supplier issues.  

If you face a challenge with excess or obsolete inventory, new product introductions, or supplier bankruptcy, let us step in and help you navigate these turbulent waters. Our team will work with you to understand the root causes of your issues. We will drive a total solution for you through program management or process development.

Manufacturing & Warehouse operations

There is a saying in the industry, “Getting product in the door is easy, but getting it out is the hard part.”  Innovating Operations will work with you on establishing golden zones, ABC segmentation, and cycle counting. 

Our team has consistently improved manufacturing cycle time by analyzing bottlenecks and establishing a culture of lean.  Our work focuses on implementing a few critical KPIs to drive the business.  As the end to end process improves, we fine tune the KPIs to meet your developing needs.

A key belief that Innovating Operations uses in their business strategy is that when the client is at 100% of a goal, it is either time to change the goal line or change the metric for continued business success.  This way we are always striving toward future successes. (The forward toward reads a bit funny, I think taking out forward it still reads ok)

Sales & Operations Planning(S&OP) 

Every company has goals of high customer service and cost control. However, beyond the short-term horizon, many companies long term planning is ad hoc. 

Innovating Operations views Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) as a critical strategic business process to move your company from fragmented planning to a structured data driven environment.  We provide the necessary forecasting and planning tools to grant the executive a focused long-term view. 

In the roles of direct executive owners and consultants, our team’s expertise has successfully developed, implemented, nurtured, refined, and expanded the S&OP process for several companies. We assure that your company regularly evaluates the critical drivers and properly communicates across the entire organization to ensure a healthy balance within the entire organization.

Organizational Readiness

Once an effective operational process is implemented an organizational imbalance can result. Allow Innovating Operations to resolve this situation.

We pride ourselves on driving the correct spans and layers within an enterprise. We evaluate the organizational structure of the company, and address your most valuable asset, your people, through evaluations. (This sounds a bit redundant evaluate the organization through evaluations??)

The most rewarding aspect of our consulting is the opportunity to mentor the future leaders in your organization. By transferring our knowledge to your employees, we are empowering them in their roles and giving them the necessary tools to lead your company toward future goals. Mentoring is also a seamless exit strategy from relying upon us as your consultants, to fully relying upon your accomplished and efficient employees.

Executive Leadership

When the need arises for temporary executive leadership, either through a review of the organization or an unexpected vacancy, Innovating Operations is ready to step in and lead the operation until permanent executive leadership can be assembled. 

Members of our team have filled in for GM’s, plant managers, supply chain executives, and other various high level positions. We are prepared to fulfill all roles and responsibilities including facilitating the hiring process and implementing any needed reorganization in the company.

System integration

In today’s world, even those with the best-in- class processes and efficient organizations need IT to function properly. 

Innovating Operations assists companies with their IT transformation. We shine especially in the area where many IT projects fail - asking the correct questions up front. We assist in gathering your company’s needs and industry requirements, and serve as a bridge between IT and the business. 

Our team has extensive experience with Oracle, Microsoft AX, and Epicor.  We assist you in establishing a balance between the need to adapt the system to the business, and the less costly but often more difficult process of adapting the business to the system. 

Mergers & Acquisitions

The day-to-day supply chain is a complex enough system but when a merger, acquisition, or divestiture is needed, the workload can be compounded many fold.

Our Innovating Operations consultants have managed these activities from single site mergers to complex global separations involving ongoing long-term separation agreements. We are dedicated to assist you with the program management of all the complex and integrated activities that occur during such an event.