Our Results

Rather than favoring one or two Operational Excellence tools and looking for ways to use those in every situation, Venti OpEx Advisors begins each client relationship by defining the company’s unique issues and opportunities.  Venti then selects the most appropriate tools and tailors an OpEx program to maximize Operations’ contribution to the business. 

We've repeatedly capitalized on this approach and the improvements it can deliver to an organization’s customers, cash flow and profits.  The value of that process is proven by these representative results.

Improving Customer Satisfaction

·         Root cause analysis of systemic issues à

Moved to 100% customer acceptance

Acceptance of product installations jumped from 22% to 100%

in one year and was sustained

·         Targeted value engineering of product line à

Eliminated #1 quality issue

Relieved chronic customer complaint and eliminated field rework

·         Refined process for new product introductions à

Tripled new product revenues

Cross-functional process yielded $6M of new revenue in first year

Improving Cash Flow

·         Implemented single-piece flow à

Doubled plant capacity & slashed inventory

In 8 months increased capacity from $40M to $85M and

cut inventory in half

·         Reduced component inventory in half à

Reduced inventory holding cost by half

Freed up more than $750K of cash (15% of annual revenue)

·         Re-engineered product line à

Slashed build-to-order lead time to 4 hours

Dropped from 6 weeks through modular redesign and drastically reduced inventory holding costs

Improving Profit

·         Targeted value engineering of product line à

Eliminated #1 quality issue

Yielded annualized savings of $2.5M (3.6% of COGS)

·         Resolved chronic machine downtime issues à

Gained 51% labor efficiency

Generated annualized labor saving of $2.4M within one year

·         Combined lean manufacturing techniques, value

engineering and strategic sourcing initiatives to

rapidly capture significant cost savings

              à Annualized savings of $3.9M (22% COGS) in 12 months

              à Annualized savings of $10.1M (11.6% of spend) in first year

              à Annualized savings of $7.1M (19% COGS) in 5 months