Industries: Consumer Goods

Consumer goods manufacturers have a power struggle on their hands and these days, it’s a race to see who will be more demanding – retailers or consumers. Caught between the two, consumer goods manufacturers constantly struggle with balancing the needs of retailers who levy hefty fines for missed shipments and the desires of consumers who want more and more customized products. Today, optimizing supply chain management demands that the old way of tooling plants to run huge lots of one or two products at a time evolve into a leaner, more demand-driven approach.

Invistics provides solutions that help consumer goods manufacturers balance inventory and cycle time, while achieving maximum throughput and improved service levels to adequately address the “one size fits none” mentality of consumers while meeting the need for speed of today’s retailers. Based on proven techniques like Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma, our MachSix methodology and supply chain management software helps plant managers identify and control variability in products, processes and demand by pinpointing immediate problems and generating scenarios for continuous improvement.

Performance That’s Out of This World

Utilizing the Invistics methodology and software, consumer goods manufacturers can implement flow manufacturing to produce a greater variety of customized finished goods, while shipping more orders on schedule with minimum amounts of inventory to help battle cost pressures from offshore competitors.

With the unique MachSix methodology and software, consumer goods manufacturers have been able to increase on-time deliveries to as much as 99%, while simultaneously reducing inventory and cycle times by 50% or more. They’ve maximized customer service levels and eliminated departmental silos for more effective manufacturing processes throughout their network and so can you.

To find out more, read our Bristol Myers Squibb case study or use any of the following links to learn how MachSix uniquely helps you redefine relationships among inventory, throughput and CycleTime to achieve out of this world customer service levels.