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Supplier Development

SUPPLIER DEVELOPMENT
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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