Infrastructure Transformation

Infrastructure building

Facilities Planning

Software Selection & Implementation

Infrastructure building

For most companies, building new facilities and or buying enterprise software is not something that they do often. Usually the staff who did the last go-through are gone.

Facilities Planning

Facilities planning is inevitable in any business. As volume grows, customers change, or products change the facility should change as well. This can be an expensive proposition if not planned well. Two things to start with when planning a facility:

1. Identify the space utilization

  • How much of the storage space is consumed by storage?

  • What are the turns on inventory: Raw, Work-in-Process and Finished Goods?

  • How much is Excess and Obsolete?

  • How much are we paying to store items with minimal financial impact?

  • What is the storage density?

  • How much are we paying for air?

  • How much by machine?

  • What is the machine utilization?

  • What are the operating hours?

2. Follow on Questions

  • Is this the right location?

  • Is this the right cost?

  • Proximity to customers and suppliers?

  • How do things flow?

  • Where do things Queue?

  • Is everything on the floor essential?

  • What is the utilization of each piece of machinery?

Manufacturing & Dustribution Facility

When it comes to design, we are experienced in

Design for flow

Compression, better utilization of production equipment and racking

Site Selection

New design implementation

Software Selection and Implementation – Supply Chain/Logistics

The selection and implementation process can be very complicated with a very crowded field of vendors. Our Approach focuses the selection on the critical few requirements that differentiate and implementation scope that gets to early wins

Software selection, like facilities planning is a critical infrastructure effort that companies do not do every day. This is complicated by the fact that assessing software is much more ambiguous that looking assessing a facility or a product machine.

Our approach to run a structured process applying these principles

Control the process

Software salespeople are good at the art of illusion – Sell the vision, deliver what you can, promise the rest. To make a good decision, we tightly control the agenda and ask for specific details for the software provider to present.

Define criteria

The process must as well defined criteria based on business requirements. This will make the best fit stand out.

Defined gaps and assumptions

There are gaps between any solution and how your company operates. These need to be explicitly defined, so there are no misunderstandings down the road.

Consider Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Software people like to focus on the licensing cost and the maintenance costs if asked, but they rarely consider other costs needed to make the solution operational. We cost our Hardware, Integration and Support staff needed to make the solution operational and sustain it.