A designer of advanced robotic manipulators needed a comprehensive product cost model that could become the basis for customer requested RFQ’s and internal decision making.

Within  one weeks’ time, an excel based product cost model was created that accounted for all BOM costs, supplier mark-up’s, labor & test times and internal mark-up/profit margins. This was further enhanced to account for volume pricing differences and provided shippable costs usable in gross margin calculations.

This new tool can now be adapted to changes in market pricing, provide a supplier cost comparison analysis’s tool  and support design trade-off decisions.

 

“Bryan took my base BOM and costing information and gave me back a comprehensive product cost modeling tool I can use in preparing customer quotes as well as modeling possible cost reduction efforts. The work was done very fast and accurately”.

Mike Morin – VP Operations, Barrett Technology, LLC

A manufacturer of custom cables and harnesses with a 20 plus year history of supplying complex assemblies for aggressive time to market customers was looking to self-assess their processes, capabilities and organization to take on higher value-add turnkey system build products and customers.

I was hired to perform a gap analysis on their business and manufacturing operations with the objective of answering the following question. “Would I award you a complex system build project”.

Over the course of 3 weeks, a comprehensive gap analysis of; work flows, business and process system controls, quality controls and organizational structure was completed and presented to the management team. The analysis provided details of specific weaknesses and recommendations for those areas in manufacturing,  processes controls, business system consolidation and organizational where changes were needed to take on higher complexity products.

Two additional tasks were asked for and completed during the same period. A Manufacturing Services Agreement (MSA) contract template was needed as part of the company’s transition to higher value add work. Additionally, a phase gate new product introduction life cycle guideline was requested as an on-going management tool to be used with future customers.

Both documents were adapted to this customer’s unique environment, presented to the management team and finalized. Taken together along with the gap analysis, a foundation was laid to alter the scope of the business along with the tools to execute the transformation.

 

“Leveraging Bryan’s experience, I hired Bryan to provide an independent assessment of my operation and work with my management team to outline the changes I desire to implement in order to take the business to a new level. Bryan did exactly what was asked for and lead my management team through a series of collaborative sessions where we embraced the recommendations and came away with a working outline to grow the business. Highly recommend Bryan”

Phil Holman – President/Owner Fourstar Connections