FMCG Manufacturing Improvement Consultancy

Operational Due Diligence

Investing, Divesting, Acquiring

Lauras International has specific expertise enabling us to offer exceptionally powerful operational due diligence assessments for businesses looking to divest or acquire manufacturing operations.

Lean Manufacturing Audit Compliance

Helping you profit from your Lean Audit

Worried about getting value from the new supermarket audits? If you don’t customise your Lean Audit framework for FMCG it can slow down your rate of return and drive the wrong actions – whilst making the right choices will give you a competitive advantage. Our approach to tailoring your Lean Manufacturing framework will mean it delivers payback in 6-9 months.

Interim Placements

Supporting organisational capabilities

Lauras International can provide short-term, interim managers to support organisational capability towards improvement. We will only recommend highly experienced interims, with the right skill set – whether you are looking for operations, production, engineering, or technical managers skilled in operational efficiency improvement.

Coaching & Mentoring

Helping people excel in their roles

All Lauras International mentors have significant manufacturing and management experience gained through years of managing people in a manufacturing environment. Their guidance will be based on their past experience which means that they will share those experiences, including their mistakes, for you to learn from.

Testimonials

Over the past three months I have been concentrating mainly on changeover reduction, waste reduction and increased throughput. There has also been a challenge to behavioural patterns. All of these efforts have been using the knowledge that you gave me and I am delighted to say that all have been successful, culminating in increased throughput, less waste and an increase in OEE from an average of 78% to around 90%. There has also been a marked improvement with people issues.

Alwin Waterhouse, Improvement Manager, British Bakeries

Inspiring the people in our business to understand how they can improve and the business can therefore develop, is an important building block in our drive for improving efficiency within our business. Engaging everyone in the business to realise that we can be better and any little improvement drives down to the bottom line. This has been seen both in the way the staff have engaged and enjoyed the experience and the evidence of reduced costs has helped the business to become more efficient. This process never stops but it is the tools that have been developed by Lauras International that has allowed us to deliver this important work at both our potato pack houses.

Fraser Scott, Head of Farming Operations Arable/Potatoes