SUPPLIER DEVELOPMENT Click here for Brochure
Supplier development activities take a strategic value stream-wide perspective and extend improvement activities to your suppliers. Whether your firm is combating cost creep, struggling through a new product launch, containing a quality spill, or looking for additional capacity, PMC can help you help your suppliers improve their performance. Supplier development can also help foster healthy competition in a market by developing capable suppliers in commodities with limited sources.
PMC has an extensive, seasoned, resource pool available to be on-site quickly in a crisis. Often we can be “wheels-up” within a matter of hours, delivering a fast on-site assessment of issues and opportunities at your supplier’s facility. We quickly develop a focused plan, addressing those opportunities with the most meaningful impact. Our road warriors are prepared to stay on-site and see the plan through to quick implementation.
We use a holistic approach to value chain management that helps avoid sub-optimizing one goal at the expense of another. Our Data-Driven Improvement approach ensures verifiable, bottom-line performance improvement results. PMC has extensive expertise in the following areas:
TOC & Throughput Improvement |
Finite Resource Scheduling |
Process/System Simulation |
Built-in Quality/Error Proofing |
Value Stream Mapping |
Six Sigma |
Kaizen Events |
Overall Equipment Effectiveness |
Quality Systems Implementation |
Total Preventive Maintenance |
Supplier Cost Engineering |
Workplace Design and Ergonomics |
Standardized Work |
Visual Workplace and 5S |
ISO Preparedness |
Line Balancing |
Workstation Simulation |
Lean Thinking |
Value Analysis/Value Engineering |
Design for Manufacturability & Assembly |
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