Altemir Consulting provides hands-on lean manufacturing consulting aimed at:

Past-Due Backlog Reduction. On-time purchasing and manufacturing is our specialty. We can work with your team to develop and implement strategies to work off backlog and enlarge your pipeline, sometimes without the need for capital investment or additional labor. We can often implement meaningful improvements within 90 days.

Efficiency Enhancements. We can help drive shop floor efficiency improvements to reduce cycle times, reduce labor cost, and increase productivity.

Cost Reduction. Bill of material and engineering design optimization, supplier rationalization, and strategic sourcing.

Staffing and Labor Assessments. We can recommend the best allocation of labor resources and staffing levels needed to achieve cost-efficient performance without sacrificing product quality or customer satisfaction.

Lean Transformation. Kaizen events, kanban material control, 5S, Lean MRP shop floor implementation, standardized work, value stream mapping, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), and vendor-managed inventory (VMI)

Production Planning, Scheduling, & Control.  Altemir Consulting's expertise is unsurpassed in establishing effective Lean shop floor control systems to dramatically improve on-time performance.  Lean MRP is our innovative production scheduling and control methodology that uses your existing ERP or APS scheduling system to establish pull-based lean flow on the shop floor. This is a highly desirable approach, particularly for high-mix job shops. We are also often able to implement these improvements within 90 days.  Learn more ...

Material Availability.  We can establish Lean material management processes using Kanban or JIT MRP to ensure that shop floor material shortages are eliminated. Our ERP optimization expertise can also ensure that Procurement receives the correct purchase requirements exactly when they are needed.  Learn more ...

Capacity Planning. We can establish metrics and strategies to help identify and overcome manufacturing bottlenecks and establish effective load and capacity management to ensure that customer demand is reliably met.

Metrics & KPIs. We can develop and establish meaningful dashboards, metrics, and KPIs that are integrated with your systems to provide a clear view of your operation.

Sales, Inventory, Operations Planning (SIOP/S&OP).  Altemir Consulting can implement a SIOP program that uses effective sales forecasting to drive capital planning and staffing to keep the factory and supply chain ready for market upturns or downturns over the horizon. Our unique expertise in capacity planning can transform your SIOP program into a competitive advantage.

Site Development. Altemir Consulting can provide strategic, planning, and execution management support for developing or consolidating, and integrating existing sites.

Project Management. We can provide project management support whether it's part of continuous improvement, a strategic initiative, or capital investment project.

Manufacturing processes we have experience with include:

• Machining and turning
• Sheet metal (stamping, punching, and bending)
• Assembly
• CNC programming
• Grinding and polishing
• Welding and brazing
• Injection molding
• Thermoforming
• Composites manufacturing
• Non-destructive testing and inspection (NDT/NDI)
• Wire harness manufacturing
• Adhesive bonding
• Laser, water jet, and plasma cutting
• Softgoods sewing and stitching
• Conversion of paper, non-wovens, and plastic films
• Mixing
• Warehouse pick and pack

Supply chain management consulting is our primary area of specialization.

Altemir Consulting can help resolve your challenges as an extended part of your team whether you are seeking to optimize raw material purchasing and inventory at a single site or need to balance complex supply chains that span multiple geographies.

Supply Chain Strategy

We can perform comprehensive financial and operational evaluations of multi-site, off-shore, and/or contracted operations to assess strategic business options.

Material Planning

Our expertise is unsurpassed at establishing stable, accurate manufacturing and purchasing requirements designed to minimize inventory and maximize material availability using either kanbans, MRP, or a combination of the two.

Purchasing Execution

We can review and optimize your purchasing requirements and buying to more effectively and efficiently purchase in a way that economically supports production without material shortage disruptions.

Vendor Management & Interventions

Improved sourcing, purchasing signals, vendor capacity management, vendor performance measurement, and data interchange regimes can be put into place to make your external supply chain an integral part of your operation.

Supply Chain Balancing

Raw material, WIP, and finished good inventory management and production control can be implemented in a multi-site environment to make your business act as a single integrated entity that minimizes cost and maximizes performance.

Inventory Optimization

Altemir Consulting can implement effective ordering mechanisms and inventory planning for product distribution, build-to-stock, build-to-order, engineer-to-order, and vendor managed inventory (VMI) scenarios. Reducing inventory while increasing customer fulfillment rates is often possible.  Learn more.

Inventory Control

We can review and improve shipping, receiving, and warehouse functions to significantly improve inventory accuracy and material availability.  Learn more.

SIOP/S&OP, Demand Planning, and Forecasting

We can develop or optimize your strategic planning processes across your organization and extended supply chain in a way that integrates sales forecasts, inventory planning, vendor capacity, and production. Sales, inventory, and operations planning (SIOP/S&OP) is one of our specialties.

Cost Reduction

Altemir Consulting can lead bill of material (BOM) cost optimization and supply chain efficiency improvement efforts.

Contract Manufacturing

We have experience and expertise in evaluating and establishing cost-conscious outsourcing functions. Formalizing economic make/buy decisions, developing vendor qualification programs, ensuring supplier quality, and integrating outside service providers into your manufacturing process are supply chain management improvements we can help bring about.

Warehouse Management

We can optimize your warehouse operations including both the setup and use of your warehouse management system (WMS) as well as establishing best practices to improve the locating of items, picking, packing, transfers, kitting, shipping, and receiving.

Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)

We can institute and optimize lean VMI processes to bridge the gap between suppliers and consumers.

Indirect Materials Management

We have hands-on experience in instituting effective controls over tooling and shop supplies to ensure reliable material availability and accurate cost accounting.

Selection, Implementation, and Optimization

We have extensive experience in selecting, implementing, and maximizing the benefits of a variety of enterprise IT systems whether you're a small business utilizing QuickBooks or a multi-billion dollar business with expansive enterprise IT system investments.

Altemir Consulting provides:

• System selection, planning, and evaluation
• System setup and implementation
• Data remediation
• Data migration
• Project management
• ERP optimization of existing systems including data cleanup and re-establishment of best practices
• Sustained training and support
• Post-M&A integration

Our goal is not necessarily to exercise every bell and whistle that your system offers but rather to leverage your system to promote optimal business practices throughout the enterprise that achieve your objectives.

Extensive ERP System Experience

We can bring about positive change with virtually any ERP system that uses a relational database (e.g., SQL Server, Oracle, HANA, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.). We have hands-on experience with the front-end user interfaces and back-end databases of a number of different ERP systems ranging from QuickBooks to SAP.

We are system-agnostic

We have deep transactional business, analytic, database, and technical skills that can help inform the selection, implementation, and optimization of any ERP system.

New Product Introduction (NPI)

Altemir Consulting can examine your product development process to improve marketing/design/manufacturing transitions in a way that reduces time-to-market, promotes quality, and prevents costly missteps.

Product Troubleshooting

We can review your product design and performance to determine an optimum set of corrective actions.

Intellectual Property Management

Altemir Consulting can assist with your patent strategy, including the vetting of patent attorneys and the development of patent claims.

Regulatory Compliance

We can help you understand and satisfy ISO 9001, AS9100, or ISO 13485 regulatory requirements. We have particular expertise in the medical device field, including 510(k) submissions for FDA Class I, II, or III products.

Engineering Change Management

A practical and appropriate change control process (e.g., ECRs, ECOs, and/or ECNs) can be implemented at all points in the product lifecycle to enable speed while still enforcing the rigor and control necessary to effectively coordinate all parts of the business.

Altemir Consulting can establish practical non-conformance and corrective/preventative action (CAPA) protocols that effectively feed back into the engineering and production processes to improve product quality continually. We have direct experience in ISO 9001, AS9100, FAR, ISO 13485, and FDA cGMP environments, including audit support and certification preparedness. We can also help establish your initial Quality Management System.

Facets of your quality assurance regime that we can address include:

• Non-conformance reporting
• ISO quality management system implementation
• ISO document development and audit support
• Inspection requirements and planning
• Engineering product requirements
• Process verification and validation
• Regulatory compliance reporting
• Document control
• QMS IT system selection, implementation, and support
• Training requirements and recordkeeping
• Engineering change management
• Supplier Quality
• Quality scorecards

Warehouse operations is one of our primary areas of specialization. Altemir Consulting can effectively address your challenges as an extended part of your team whether you are seeking to optimize raw material warehousing or product distribution.

Our warehouse management consulting services include:

Material Planning

Our expertise is unsurpassed at establishing stable, accurate manufacturing and purchasing requirements designed to minimize inventory and maximize material availability using either kanbans, MRP, or a combination of the two.

Inventory Optimization

Altemir Consulting can implement effective ordering mechanisms and inventory planning for product distribution, build-to-stock, build-to-order, engineer-to-order, and vendor managed inventory (VMI) scenarios. Reducing inventory while increasing customer fulfillment rates is often possible.  Learn more.

Inventory Control

We can review and improve shipping, receiving, and warehouse functions to significantly improve inventory accuracy and material availability.  Learn more.

Pick and Pack Operations

Altemir Consulting can review, assess, and optimize high-volume distribution or fulfillment operations to achieve new efficiencies.

Warehouse Management

We can optimize your warehouse operations including both the setup and use of your warehouse management system (WMS) as well as establishing best practices to improve the locating of items, picking, packing, transfers, kitting, shipping, and receiving.

Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)

We can institute and optimize lean VMI processes to bridge the gap between suppliers and consumers.

Indirect Materials Management

We have hands-on experience in instituting effective controls over tooling and shop supplies to ensure reliable material availability and accurate cost accounting.

We work with corporate management, boards of directors, private equity, entrepreneurs, and family offices to realize growth, profitability, and liquidity objectives.

For Prospective Sellers:

We help prepare the business for sale by:

• Implementing key operating improvements to increase profitability and valuation
• Lean manufacturing
• ERP/IT system upgrade, consolidation, and optimization
• Inventory management
• Production scheduling and shop floor control
• Assisting with operating and accounting data cleanup and preparation
• Developing data packages as needed to enable a smooth sales process
• Working with ownership to develop a sound sales strategy
• Developing marketing materials
• Soliciting prospective buyers
• Provide due diligence support as you interact with potential acquirers and strategic partners
• Providing transactional support and advice

We can assemble the right team needed to realize your objectives for a successful merger and acquisition (M&A) exit.  Contact us to arrange an initial discussion where we can explore the possibilities and define a path forward together.

For Prospective Buyers:

We provide buy-side support that includes:

• Evaluating prospective targets
• Assisting with due diligence and business analysis
• Providing post-transaction integration support
• Implementing post-transaction operating improvements