Operations Excellence

Companies are expected to deliver more in less time; be more flexible about all aspects of business and do it all at dramatically reduced costs.  Maine Pointe helps you create a proactive environment where you turn these market pressures into opportunities to increase cash and profits. Working with your team in a highly transparent process, we build an operational model that aligns facilities, capabilities, processes and strategic initiatives for long-term advantage.  

You get the systems you need to:

• Improve EBITDA and cash flow

• Reduce working capital requirements

• End the friction between sales, marketing and operations

• Free cash to fund important new initiatives

 Questions to Ask

• Are you struggling to manage variable costs?

• You’ve cut costs already; how can you find new savings?

• Do you have insufficient contribution to cover fixed costs?

• Do you have too much inventory or the wrong inventory?

• Do you need to minimize fixed costs?

How it Works

We excel at analyzing, designing, developing, installing and implementing what drives enterprise-wide performance improvement in a wide range of highly competitive industries. Working with leadership and the front-lines, we get everyone on a common page – with clear lines of ownership and accountability, so your entire team is committed to doing what it takes to get the job done and more. This across-the-board engagement ensures that every stakeholder owns the changes required to make execution the real strategy – where customer value and cost can live in perfect harmony.

Our role: to help you take the bold steps needed to change how your business runs – driving cash and EBITDA to the bottom line, where it can fund new opportunities, innovation and your ability to thrive.

Within weeks, you will have a clear and frank assessment of your true operational picture – and a roadmap for dramatically enhancing the effectiveness of critical processes.

Specific Expertise  Areas

The Maine Pointe team brings expertise in:

• Lean enterprise

• Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)

• Maintenance and energy

• Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)

• Six Sigma

• Footprint viability

• Process management effectiveness

• Process velocity and value added

• Use of fixed assets