Category: Insights

Comic strip from The Atlantic titled "The End of Trust; Suspicion is undermining the American economy" Comic shows 2 office workers, with one standing ready to catch the other in a trust fall. As the other begins to fall into the other, the other man walks away and lets the man fall to the floor

Trust is everything.

Trust is a gut feeling – not easily earned nor restored. We earn and maintain our clients’ trust by delivering on our word. If we say, “You will have it by 5 pm,” we’ll deliver it by 4:30. Trust is the lifeblood of consulting because our product lacks tangible form....
Supply/Demand Planning SIOP: Advanced Planning Delivers Agility and Responsiveness Risk Avoidance & Opportunity Conversion Decisions Months 0-3: Frozen or Fixed Horizon; Response is typically overtime or expecting. Variability +/- 3% Months 3-6: Capacity Adjust Horizon; Labor and supply chain alignment. Variability +/- 8% Months 6-9: Project Horizon; Professionals, complex Kaizen solutions, CAPEX. Variability +/- 12% Months 9-12: Strategic Horizon; Footprint rationalization, CAPEX, campaigns. Variability +/- 15%

Supply / Demand Planning
SIOP: Advanced Planning Delivers Agility and Responsiveness

Is your organization suffering from SIOP myopia? In our client assessments, we find that 90% of supply/demand discussion focuses on the near-term, neglecting longer term risks and opportunities. Optimized SIOP extends the horizon of forecast accuracy to increase agility and avoid looming constraints. Kormac’s supply chain convergence approach powers an...
Global Manufacturing Supplier Visibility and Planning - Reduced airfreight costs by 43% ($47MM) with increased component visibility

Global Manufacturing: Supplier Visibility and Planning
Reduced airfreight costs by 43% ($47 MM) with increased component visibility

Continuing our discussion of current supply shortages and bottlenecks, Kormac excels at helping clients cultivate supply visibility and reliability amidst challenging conditions. For example, a global manufacturer of vehicle seats sought to maintain 100% OTIF (On-Time and In-Full order fulfillment rate) but suffered from inadequate visibility to component suppliers’ capacity...
Heavy Outdoor Equipment in front of a sunset. Photo by WORKSITE Ltd. on Unsplash

Heavy Equipment: Order Backlogs & Supplier Availability

Temporary supply shortages are making economic headlines as drivers of inflation and order backlogs. Kormac addressed the same uneven supply availability during the last recovery. One of our clients, a global Oil & Gas heavy equipment manufacturer, lost critical suppliers when the 2008 economic crisis drove many small machine shops...
Leadership Opportunity Seeking 'Gigafactory' Plant Manager Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to shape the future of energy storage Greenfield or brownfield startup operation providing advanced energy storage solutions to the aerospace, defense, medical, and critical infrastructure markets

Leadership Opportunity
Seeking 'Gigafactory' Plant Manager

Kormac is assisting a client partner in identifying exceptional candidates to serve as Plant Manager of an innovative new battery ‘gigafactory.’ This role offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join a fast-growing company that is shaping the future of advanced energy storage. The factory will be a greenfield or brownfield startup...
Cultivating Resilience A variety of interconnected trends and disruptors are shaping this recovery, including: - Connected/Connectivity Internet of Things (IoT) - Automation, smart tech and robotics - Shared product as service - Electric Electrification - Shifting employee and customer expectations - Blockchain - Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) - Green/sustainability - Big Data analytics Are you ready?

Cultivating Resilience
A variety of Interconnected trends and disruptors are shaping this recovery

While some aspects of life and work are returning to the “new normal,” others are more disorienting than ever. Kormac is helping organizations cultivate resilience, foster innovation, and identify new talent to face the continued onslaught of complex disruptors. If you feel flat-footed when you ponder some of the trends...
Space Rationalization The Economist - Shaky foundations: As offices remain empty, does a financial reckoning loom? June 5 2021 edition As organizations reasses real estate needs, we can help with facility consolidation and best practices Case study: Oil & Gas Footprint Rationalization -53% Square footage Reduced space requirements and executed 6 facility moves through implementation of Lean, 6S, Standard Work, Visual Factory, Optimized OEE, and other operational efficiencies

Space Rationalization
Facility Consolidation Best Practices

“As companies try to tempt workers back to the office … a huge uncertainty hangs over them: will enough people come? Even as vaccinations progress, workers have been slow to return. In early May only one in 20 buildings in America had occupancy levels above 10%.” – The Economist, June...
Hidden Warehouse Revealed hidden capacity in B2B warehouse for rapid B2C delivery Throughput up 593% from 3,500 packages per day to 24,270 per day with no additional labor Enhanced warehouse layout and processes for fast, cost-effective product delivery

Hidden Warehouse
Fast, Cost-Effective Product Delivery

Last week, I introduced “The Hidden Factory,” the notion that all organizations have the potential to deliver more output from existing assets. Easier said than done when demand is spiking, so here's a story of how we released capacity hidden within a bedding manufacturer’s warehouse operations. A bed-in-a-box manufacturer urgently...
Executive Opportunity Seeking S&OP Leader Opportunity: Associate Director, Sales & Operations Planning, Covance by Labcorp Build and implement a world-class Sales & Operations Planning process across the enterprise to improve customer satisfaction, profitability, inventory turns, lead times, quality and resource planning. [Covance by Labcorp logo appears on the bottom of the image]

Executive Opportunity
Seeking S&OP Leader

Calling all world-class S&OP executives! Covance by Labcorp, a leading global life sciences company and friend of The Kormac Group, is seeking candidates for an Associate Director of Sales & Operations Planning role.

Contact Kormac at +1.704.266.3555 for more information…

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