Enhancing internal operations and management
A fast-growing clothing manufacturer with operations in Belgium and Romania aimed to standardize and streamline internal processes while maintaining daily performance. With both private label and in-house brands, the company brought in operational expertise and adopted lean management principles to drive operational excellence.
Ambition: Streamlining operations and management
To support growth, the company streamlined its design, sourcing, manufacturing, and logistics operations through a unified strategy. Standard processes improved coordination across teams, while active stakeholder alignment ensured consistent execution and adoption.
How we helped: Flow and pull to drive operations and reduce lead times
To optimize and standardize operations, the company identified bottlenecks. This enabled them to focus on key areas for change. By applying lean principles like flow and pull, we assisted the company to reduce in-process stock, which resulted in shorter end-to-end cycle times and greater responsiveness to customer demand.
Shopfloor operations were enhanced by means of a process layout redesign for logical sequencing. The use of visual management helped streamline product movement. Centralized information and a clearer structure enabled teams to take on more responsibility, ensuring practical, employee-friendly adoption.
Result: Greater throughput and more agility to overcome seasonal demand peaks
Our contribution created a major improvement in the production planning process, safeguarded by the IT system and clear-cut roles and responsibilities within the company. We helped the company understand that, in order to increase turnover, the ‘seasonal effect’ had to be eliminated as much as possible by means of alternative work. We guided the change process and ensured the season remained on track. Thanks to our work, the company can now count on a more efficient organizational structure and improved services for its buyers.
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