Manufacturing

The facts

Technical and financial experts don't speak the same language. In these conditions it is often hazardous to measure costs and actual margins, let alone track savings of improvement projects.

Our solutions

Industrial operations diagnostic: building on our extensive, cross-industry experiences, we can promptly and accurately evaluate the maturity of your organization.

A diagnostic is based on interviews, data analysis and benchmark information ; it covers any or all of the following processes : product development, purchasing, manufacturing and assembly, supply chain, investments, management organization.

It can be carried out quickly with a limited investment on your side and will provide a clear understanding of the current situation and where it would make sense to implement improvement projects. 

Full cost modelling and margin analysis: indirect costs represent an ever-growing part of a product's total cost. Yet indirect costs are often spread accross with arbitrary keys and rules which do not reflect the actual use of resources. This leads to erroneous margin calculations and risky decision making.

Our expertise implementing ABC (Activity Based Costing) models in various industries will help you to calculate full costs acurately and to secure your development, marketing and sales strategy.

Results

The facts

Operations now have a long experience using continuous improvement techniques. Yet the market and clients regularly require even more radical changes.

Our solutions

Thanks to their extensive experience in various industries, our consultants adapt proven techniques to your environment, so you don't have to adapt your environment to theories:

• Product design to Cost based on a 3 dimension approach (parts, functions, system)
• Optimization of capital investment projects cost and duration with Cost House's proprietary method "Invest to Cost"
• Industrial organization and process improvements, inventory control
• Reduction of manufacturing or development leadtimes with critical resources management tools
• Improvement of purchasing performance (processes, system view, supplier base rationale)

Results

The facts

Communication between departments (R&D, process engineering, manufacturing, purchasing, finance, marketing, sales, ...) is limited and inefficient. They all have their own agendas and look for local optimums that have dramatic impacts on the rest of the organization. The global company's performance strategy is not shared.

Our solutions

Thanks to its extensive teaching experience with leading Universities, Cost House has created training modules well suited to train teams on performance improvement.

Cost House puts in place and organizes internal performance improvement teams in your organization.

Results