Unlock value in your operations. Your team has done an amazing job sourcing suppliers. Yet, that value isn’t translating to your bottom line Why?

Inefficient inventory control

Suboptimal planning

Scheduling challenges

Underutilized MRP systems

At Wayfarer Consulting, we have lived and solved these and many other challenges.  We look beyond the obvious path and bring a holistic view to the collaboration necessary among sales, supply chain, and manufacturing.

Helping you navigate competitive seas

Business is Complex

with many moving parts. It is really a set of interconnected systems. This makes finding solutions difficult unless one takes a structured approach to problem solving. This is the quickest way for us to understand your business problem and identify solutions for both today and tomorrow.

We make the effort to get to the root of the problem.  By learning about specific characteristics of your environment and systems, we can develop a comprehensive picture your current situation and determine the aspects that are most likely the prime drivers of your problems. Now we can help you devise sustainable solutions.

Our Approach

We use a 4-step process to develop lasting solutions to your business problems:

  • EXPLORATION We get to know your business and its processes.
    • We want to understand your context and your goals
    • We need to talk to people at multiple levels to get different stakeholder perspectives
    • We need to observe the process and review documentation
    • If needed, we will dive into data and systems
    • We use tools like 5-Whys and Fishbone diagrams to search for root causes
    • We create a flow chart that you will verify to ensure we understand your needs.
  • DESIGN We use this information to work with you to develop solutions
    • We work with your team to generate ideas for solutions
    • Ideas can be short term and long term
    • We help you plan out these ideas
  • TEST We assist you in testing and refining these ideas
    • Simulations
    • Prototyping process changes
    • Pilot testing new ideas
    • Refining solutions
  • IMPLEMENT We assist you in the change management process, developing KPI’s, and training employees on new procedures

Root Cause Investigation

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