The Society for Advancement of
Consulting® (SAC®) has announced three members
have achieved the rare Board Approved
designation. This approval means that the
consultant has worked in a specialized area for
a considerable length of time...
"We needed to reduce the cycle
time for a critical portion of our order acceptance process.
Dave managed our re-engineering effort which resulted in fully
defining our manufacturing capabilities and reducing our cycle
time from 5 days to 1. This increased customer
satisfaction and provided the foundation for our new
configurator initiative."
Bruce Crawford, Director
Customer Order Mgmt
Testimonial
“We
purchased a configurator as part of a new ERP system and called
Dave to help us implement it. He quickly showed us how this new
configurator module would not work for our unique products.
After helping us get our money back for this module, he
determined what we needed from a configurator system so we
could seamlessly address our operational problems across our
enterprise. I was delighted with the way he engaged our entire
management team to understand our issues and develop an
implementation plan. Within days, the energy level within my
group was re-energized and Dave had pointed us in the direction
we needed to go, not only to allow us to grow our business but
to achieve a streamline & efficient configurator.”
Guy Gandenberger
VP, Sales &
Marketing
What Companies Crave
If your company
offers configurable order configurations, you are undoubtedly
looking for ways to:
Respond to more
bids in a shorter lead time
Properly set your
customer's expectations about what you can offer
Increase your
order "win" rate
Get buildable
orders into the order backlog more quickly
Process your
orders more efficiently through Order Administration and
Operations
Ensure you
understand your order configuration profit potential before you
accept an order
Dramatically
reduce the Engineering content per order configuration
Free up
Engineering resources to work on new products and enhancements
for
existing products rather than being limited to supporting order
demand
Reduce Engineering
errors that affect downstream supply chain and operations efforts
Smooth the
production flow and eliminate production delays due to missing
parts
Get more capacity
out of the same physical assets
Transforming a company from its current state
to become a lean, efficient organization involves new thinking, new
technology, and a highly-focused effort.
mass-customization-experthelp
manufacturers conquer the challenges that plague their
configurable products.
mass-customization-expertwill save your enterprise
time and money, help you avoid unnecessary, costly and avoidable
mistakes and give your organization the best opportunity for
successful mass customization implementation.
Mass customization
includes build-to-order, assemble-to-order, configure-to-order,
and involves the transformation from engineer-to-order to mass
customization.
If you have either embarked on or
are about to embark on a journey to implement mass customization and
a configurator,
If your
situation is urgent, complex, or, if your configurability challenges
have lingered for years,
"Our system for
selecting features and options was near non-existent and
operations consistently in gridlock. Dave designed and
implemented a system that not only solved these problems, but
satisfied everyone's information needs"
Robert Duncan,
Chairman & CEO
Testimonial
"Dave Gardner can save his clients a lot of
money. What he does is complex and sophisticated, usually
affecting every organization in a company. This requires
collaboration, teamwork, a hands-on understanding of the
implications of certain process decisions, and careful
examination of the trade-offs of different approaches. He has a
keen understanding of how companies operate and the information
hand-offs from group to group. Dave brings a lot of intellectual
property to the table, a rarity in his consulting space."
