Case Studies

Food & Drinks Consultancy

Improving materials utilisation and production output

In complex technical environments, our programmes have aligned management, improved usage of materials, increased capacity and production, at the same time improving customer satisfaction

Validus consultants combine our extensive transformation and facilitation techniques with specific industry expertise to build best-in-class performance. Our approach links strategic vision and leadership with unlocking the skills, competencies and confidence of staff 'at the sharp-end' to create continuous improvement cultures.

Our experience includes:

Senior management team alignment
Improving demand forecasting, production scheduling and capacity planning
Achieving output performance – post installation & commissioning
Increasing production / line efficiency / yield
Set-up time reduction
Improving materials utilisation and supply chain management
Operational measures design and implementation
Management coaching
Implementing continuous improvement infrastructures
Problem solving training and coaching
Labour resource optimisation
Waste reduction techniques
Team building
Management training for front-line managers

We are well used to operating within highly complex technical environments, often to demanding timescales to achieve outstanding results. These include:

Major increases in line capacity (no capital expenditure)
Reduced cost of contract packaging
Increased line efficiency by up to 45%
Elimination of low frequency failures – improved customer satisfaction
Resolving micro-biological issues – contamination avoidance and extended shelf-life