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Our Expertise

We work with manufacturing businesses that are frustrated with performance, want to drive profit, or are simply fed-up with waste. Each business usually has a good operation and many have started a CI programme already - but prior to working with us, have been disappointed with the rate of improvement or sustainability of results.

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Premier Providers of Improvement Support

Our expertise in Lean, Six Sigma, TPM, Operational Excellence, Management Development, and a range of in-house developed approaches, means we tailor our Rapid Improvement model to each client; whether working with small family-run businesses, or blue-chips across multiple sites. Over the past 20 years, we have refined a range of solutions to help you assess your true losses, understand how to make the improvements, engage your teams to drive progress, and develop reliable, sustainable productivity gains.

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Finely-tuned Methodologies for each Sector

We specialise in FMCG manufacture, with a very strong track record in Food & Drink, but our first client was in Iron & Steel and we’ve also worked across Paper, Packaging & Printing, and the Chemical & Pharmaceutical sectors. Each sector has a different asset base and set of base assumptions – and our success has been in tailoring our approach prioritised according to key financial ratios such as ‘Depreciation per FTE’ and ‘Raw Material to Total Product Cost’.

LEAN FOR FMCGS

Highly Skilled Practitioners

We use highly-skilled Practitioners to implement our programmes – not Consultants. Our Practitioners have all managed a factory, or a significant part of one, and are dedicated to working with your teams to improve productivity by training, getting involved in meetings, and working with the shopfloor – in the way only true operational professionals can.

 

Forefront of Manufacturing Innovation

With decades of broad operational experience at the forefront of manufacturing, our team is well equipped to build and/or review Operational Strategy, knowledgeable about the technologies and run strategies available to manufacturers, and the relative merits of different approaches to improvement. As such, we are able to provide professional consultancy services to support your organisational capability towards improvement – including Operational Due Diligence, Operational Strategy, and Lean Manufacturing Audit compliance, and more…

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Testimonials

Before Lauras came we were facing the looming recession as a premium supplier with huge pressures on our margins from the trade. By improving our efficiencies we have been able to maintain our bottom line over the current ‘crisis’. I would recommend Lauras International to any Food or Pharma business that wants to achieve rapid and sustainable productivity improvement.

Andrew Shaw, Supply Chain Director, Seven Seas

The focussed homework, linking the learning to ongoing behaviour and leadership habits, was particularly useful. Excellent 5* training.

Front Line Manager – FLM Training