Operational Excellence

Supplier Development

GP's Operational Excellence Practice team offers two services under this discipline:

• We work with your supplier-development organization to design and deploy a supplier-improvement initiative. Having created initiatives for Fortune 100 companies, we know key design considerations and tradeoffs.
• We work with your organization to improve your supply chain's performance using a blend of our other three disciplines—Lean Shop Floor Systems, Lean Six Sigma, and Reliability Excellence, customized to your organization's needs.

Results from this specialized discipline have included:

• Critical suppliers embraced Lean
• Typical supplier reduced flow time 50%, equipment changeover from 45 - 90%, and WIP 50%
• Critical supply chain reduced flow time from 35 to 15 days, inventory 45%, and achieved 100% delivery

GP's Robust Approach

We help you implement your Supplier Development by:

• Following our Pathway to Excellence
• Focusing your resources through Goal Deployment
• Using Rapid Improvement
• Sustaining what you gain and continuously improving through Daily Management