BUSINESS ISSUES

Is your manufacturing business troubled by:

• Short orders demanded by customers leading to heavy overtime?
• Equipment and machine downtime due to a lack of preventive maintenance?
• Lack of quality built into products resulting in an excess of rework and waste?
• Under utilization of production capacity because of misdirected sales efforts?
• Vendor material costs that are out of line, delayed deliveries, or shortages?
• Competitive pressure brought on by world markets requiring lower profit margins, and a more diverse product mix (inefficient production planning)?
• Older facilities which require a rethinking of workstation layout and process flow from raw materials to shipping?
• Weak supervision on the plant or shop floor calling for management training?

George S. May International Company consultants can improve your business and profits through planning, tracking and control of:

• Providing weekly controls for cash forecasts, and progress on actions taken.
• Identification of production capacity by work station and best process flow.
• Production planning by priorities for longer runs and fewer changeovers.
• Proper scheduling of preventive maintenance coupled with operator care.
• New redirection of marketing strategy and sales force follow through.
• Negotiations with vendors to better manage delivery and inventory levels.
• Management training.
• Improved customer satisfaction with attention to order needs and status.
• Better estimating of products, pricing and job-cost tracking of actual results.
• Better departmental organization between the office and the plant floor.
• Budgets by department so that managers can be held accountable for costs.
• Evaluation systems designed to reward productivity and high quality.
• Quantitative comparisons by dollars, percentages and ratios to the industry.
• Assisting with long-term goals and family succession planning.
• Assisting with business plans / bank presentations for increased credit.

WEBSITES

Manufacturers' Agents National Association
www.MANAonline.org

The Conference Board
www.conference-board.org

Machinery Dealers National Association
www.MDNA.org

Manufacturers' Alliance
www.MAPI.net

University of Nebraska Reference Site
www.ianr.unl.edu/pubs/dairy/g1224.htm

United Kingdom Dairy Industry Virtual Farm Tour
www.ndfas.org.uk

Dairy Cattle Information & Links To Additional Websites
users.erols.com/cohenjosh/070901dair.html

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