Production Run Strategy

Every production unit must decide how to manage the production process as efficiently and reliably as possible, and address manufacturing execution, warehouse and inventory management. We use our experience in this area to help clients improve the efficiency of their production operations, increase product quality, and raise manufacturing yields. Our team can also help:

• Give robust visibility to product genealogy and component traceability
• Increase capacity utilisation
• Reduce raw material costs

Crimson & Co focuses on improving the way organisations interface with trading partners. We manage broad issues around strategy and operations across functional areas such as inbound and outbound transportation, physical distribution and third party logistics. We can help achieve significant efficiencies in transportation of materials and help create links between buyers and trading partners and between buyers’ facilities, no matter where they are located.

Contract Manufacturing involves the outsourcing of a specific part of a manufacturing or assembly process to a third party or to a different operation within the same organisation.

Contract manufacturers can offer lower costs through economies of scale, providing services from less expensive geographies, offering design for manufacture capabilities, optimising logistics and achieving purchasing economies of scale on materials. There are many criteria and factors that need to be evaluated when making outsourcing decisions (cost reductions and cost savings are not the only criteria). Increasingly organisations are looking to utilise contract manufactures to speed up the time to market for new products and building increased flexibility into the Supply Chain to better manage demand fluctuations. 

Crimson & Co helps identify opportunities for cost reduction, quality improvement and increased flexibility through contract manufacturers; both internally and with a third party. Our team offers support through the tendering process, assessment and decision making and the subsequent ongoing management of the relationship and integration of the contract manufacture into the Supply Chain.

Capacity Management & Asset Utilisation

How should the production and distribution infrastructure be managed? Should a business invest in excess capacity and flex operations to match demand? Or should it run a steady production plan and spread demand over a longer period of time, thereby stock-building? Is outsourcing for contract suppliers at peak season appropriate? How can managers keep a medium term view on forthcoming production loads so that shift patterns can be flexed to accommodate?

We help companies assess their asset utilisation options.

Operational Effectiveness

Regardless of whether a business has designed its supply chain to be efficient or responsive, each element of the chain must perform at the optimal level and with sufficient reliability. It must have the best possible plan, and it must conform to it.

Customers feel variation, not averages.

Efficiency & Reliability in Manufacturing

Improving operational effectiveness in a manufacturing environment means managing costs and inefficiencies out of the process, whilst simultaneously improving the process reliability. We help businesses to reduce costs and gain control over production processes, so that businesses can plan effectively and deliver according to their promises.