Category: Insights

Recession Resilience Fortifying for an Uncertain Future Doomsday talk is everywhere, but businesses that cultivate resilience are positioned to thrive in good times and bad [Screenshots of various news article titles about recessions and the economy] Optimized SIOP extends the horizon of forecast accuracy to minimize risk, increase agility, and improve execution in any business climate.

Recession Resilience

Fortifying for an Uncertain Future

The R-word is everywhere, and advisors are touting tips to make businesses “recession proof.” Unfortunately, that concept is more myth than reality. Instead, our objective – in good times and bad – is to cultivate resilience. A “recession resilient” business has implemented comprehensive sales, inventory, and operations planning (SIOP) to...
Automotive Aftermarket Maximizing Throughput and Flow Kormac helped a leading manufacturer of truck caps, covers, and cargo systems to achieve: - 50% throughput improvement - 32% labor content reduction - Quality: right first time enhancement "Kormac found innovative and cost-effective solutions that improved Right First Time quality, throughput, and employee morale." - Client CEO

Automotive Aftermarket

Maximizing Throughput and Flow

A leading automotive aftermarket manufacturer was facing large impending order volumes and turned to Kormac for help in improving throughput, quality, and facility flow. Together, we developed a future vision for one-piece flow through their entire operation. Because new equipment proved cost prohibitive, Kormac and the client team sought to...
Cost Management Rebalancing the margin tug-of-war Does your organization struggle to achieve financial goals in an increasingly volatile marketplace? [iconography of two teams playing tug of war, with the target margin in the middle. Text above the image reads "Kormac Rebalancing"] Cost Pressures: Labor, Materials, Logistics, Real estate, Technolgy Market Pressures: Pricing, service delivery, quality, lead time, social responsibility Kormac's Surgival Strike Methodology™ delivers the agility you need to meet your financial objectivers.

Cost Management

Rebalancing the margin tug-of-war

As the labor and supply cost rollercoaster continues, we are working with several clients to identify new management levers. Among them: Increasing the frequency of cost reviews to ensure faster customer price adjustments and/or tying customer pricing to component market indices Executing Value Analysis and Value Engineering efforts to drive...
Healthcare Services Maximizing On-Time Delivery "Working with Kormac, you know you can expect a small, focus-driven team that will deliver results." - Vice President, Healthcare Services Company Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning Overhaul Achieved 100% on-time delivery and reduced SKU inventory by half

Healthcare Services

Maximizing On-Time Delivery

Customer delight begins with honoring our commitments. With that truth in mind, a leading healthcare services company turned to Kormac for help in improving its on-time delivery to customers. From forecasting and purchasing to inventory management and product delivery, our client sought to deliver an outstanding experience for its pharmaceutical...
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Choosing the Best Path Forward

Evaluating Options for Underperforming Organizations

Inside most companies – no matter how successful – are underperforming units or subsidiaries. When ignored, these underperformers cost more than just money – they consume resources better invested elsewhere. For one recent automotive aftermarket client, Kormac analyzed an underperforming business unit contributing only 3% of company revenue. The unit...
Lean Liberation Lean as Resource Liberator Sample Kormac Lean project outcomes - -50-60% cycle time reduction - -50% WIP inventory reduction - -85% cost of poor quality reduction - +30+% improvement in labor efficiency - +30+% EBITDA improvement - +20+% useable floorspace expansion - Overall improvements in safety performance and employee satisfaction

Lean Liberation

Lean as Resource Liberator

As manufacturers grapple with rising material and labor costs, we’re seeing renewed interest in Lean. Kormac has decades of experience in employing Lean/Six Sigma/Kaizen methodologies to boost quality, productivity, and speed while reducing cost, backlog, and facility floor space. We begin each Lean engagement by analyzing our client’s product line...
Medical Device Supply Chain Complexity & Agility - Addressed $11.1MM+ overage in raw material components and $5.6MM+ overage in finished goods inventory

Medical Device: Supply Chain Complexity & Agility

Addressed $11.1 MM+ overage in raw material components and $5.6 MM+ overage in finished goods inventory

Supply chains have proven a compelling scapegoat, but many of the recent challenges reveal underlying dysfunction that preceded the pandemic. For one medical device manufacturer, supply chain (SC) complexity was creating costly overages in materials and finished inventory. Their build-to-order SC process optimized part and component costs, but did so...
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...