Manufacturing

     Lean Manufacturing has forced excess capacity out of many manufacturing plants, reduced inventories, and forced plants to increase flexibility. In the middle, managers are compelled to change employee schedules – often at the last minute – to match production cycles. Not only do employees routinely bear the brunt of the negative results that come from last minute changes, corporate profit margins shrink in response to the hidden, frequently unmeasured costs inherent in poorly thought out decisions.

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     Traditional scheduling techniques usually match demand in 40-hour increments, no longer offering the flexibility or scheduling predictability needed in today’s business environment to protect profits. A single day shift, followed by an afternoon shift, then a night shift, and finally a fourth shift for a 24 x 7-day operation is the typical schedule implementation path followed by growing companies. Consequently, when the workload expands or decreases beyond these 40-hour increments, managers are forced to find their own solutions to solve the problem.

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     Coleman Consulting Group designs solutions that take into account day-to-day changes, seasonality, and the long term needs of the business.  At Coleman Consulting Group we understand it is not about a shift length or a day on or day off pattern.  For the business, it is about matching the demand at the lowest cost; and for the employee, it is about predictable solutions that fit their family and social life.