Industry: Manufacturing

Revenue: $300 Million

Employees: 500

Situation

• Family-owned business, with Private Equity minority shareholder
• Global supplier of air care and household cleaning products
• Seeking optimized operational flexibility and productivity to sustain accelerated growth
• Required immediate net cash generation to pay for productivity investments

What We Did

• Aligned on buy/sell theses and “100 day” plan
• Conducted leadership assessment at Mexico site and re-org of key function teams
• Conducted initial pilots to validate hypotheses
• Re-balanced work with best practices from pilots
• Put in place inventory reduction action items, process improvements, and technology enhancements
• Developed employee training material for staff flexibility across operation
• Launched customized “production system”
• Established financial metrics dashboard
• Set-up execution control tower for daily, weekly, monthly progress tracking
• Served as interim management – hired new business leader and direct managers
• Results achieved within “100 days” plan timeline
• Best practices from Mexico pilot applied across new sites in China, Bulgaria, and Italy