Specialized Services
Pacific Coast Manufacturing Consultants provides customized, project-based specialized services designed to meet your specific and immediate needs. All projects begin with our proprietary ROI contract. Projects are time based and directed toward a defined and quantifiable outcome. Our approach is centered on your available internal resources and subsequent requirements for external support. We are available to facilitate, lead or manage your project. We will work with you to identify and quantify desired project outcomes, project scope, timelines, budget, milestones and reporting structure. We are your partner, up to and including project completion, validation and verification.
The services include:
- Business Process Management
Business Process Management
A holistic management approach promotes business effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation, flexibility and integration with technology. Business process management attempts to improve processes continuously through internal and external stimuli. It is focused on aligning all aspects of an organization with the wants and needs of clients. - Total Quality Management
Total Quality Management
Redesigning and developing the organizational structure, responsibilities, procedures, processes and resources are often needed to implement total quality management. Total Quality Management involves an entrenched awareness of and responsiveness to quality into all manufacturing and business processes. - Interim Management
Interim Management
The temporary provision of management resources and skills may be needed in periods of transition. A proven heavyweight, interim executive manager can manage a crisis or implement change within an organization short-term, when it may be unnecessary or impossible to find on short notice a candidate for a permanent role. - Strategic Planning
Strategic Planning
This involves a process of defining an organizational strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating resources to pursue that strategy. Business analysis techniques used may include SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats), PEST analysis (Political, Economic, Social and Technological analysis), STEER analysis (Socio-cultural, Technological, Economic, Ecological and Regulatory factors), and EPISTEL (Environment, Political, Informatic, Social, Technological, Economic and Legal). - Global Supply Chain Management
Global Supply Chain Management
The design, planning, execution, control and monitoring of supply chain activities can create net value, build a competitive infrastructure, leverage worldwide logistics, synchronize supply with demand and measure performance globally. Supply chain management encompasses the planning and management of all activities involved in sourcing, procurement, conversion, logistics, supplier development and quality assurance.
- New Plant Start-ups / Greenfield
New Plant Start-ups / Greenfield
A management approach to total plant start-up includes a plant layout study, selection, purchase and installation of capital equipment, process flows and controls, defining staffing levels, personnel recruitment, training and evaluation, capacity planning, production scheduling and product launch, quality and business systems implementation, and internal and external communication plans. - Inventory Management
Inventory Management
An enterprise wide management approach to inventory control incorporates policies, procedures and techniques employed in maintaining the optimum quantity of each inventory item at the optimum point within the manufacturing process flow. The objective of inventory management is to provide uninterrupted production, sales and customer-service levels at the minimum cost. - Labor Relations
Labor Relations
Comprehensive services include union avoidance, certification and decertification process, vulnerability assessments and risk management surveys, communication plans, non-binding and binding mediation or arbitration, collective agreement negotiations and dispute resolutions. - Health and Safety Management
Health and Safety Management
A cross-disciplinary management approach focuses on protecting the safety, health and welfare of all employees, working or interacting within the boundaries of your organization. The goal of all occupational safety and health programs is to foster a safe work environment. As a secondary effect, a successful health and safety program will have a positive impact on employee morale, employee retention rates and plant or facility operating margins. - Procurement
Procurement
An integrated and global approach to the acquisition of goods and services results in the best possible total cost of ownership. Elements of the process may involve make vs. buy, domestic vs. international, supplier selection, evaluation and negotiations, RFQ, RFP, RFI, RFT, buying consortiums, lead times and delivery schedules, LTAs and contracts, contract and procurement law, capital equipment and internal procurement procedures and authorization.
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