Operations & Supply Chain
Whether you need to optimize your workforce, reduce production costs, refine plant utilization, or protect against potential supplier fraud and compliance issues, Kaizen helps you make operational decisions that drive long-term success.
Example Value Contributions from Operations & Supply Chain Projects
6%
Labor Costs
$120M+
Revenue
$1.8B+
Fixed Costs
Trusted Clients
Areas of Expertise
Design and implement a data driven strategy for workforce planning. Make people and labor related decisions with a holistic view of external and internal drivers.
Kaizen brings deep expertise and experience in demand-driven workforce planning, solutions to measure and improve employee effectiveness and productivity, implementation and migration of WFM systems, and other bespoke human capital analytics solutions.
Key Benefits
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Leverage data from multiple platforms to fully understand employee experience and ensure budgeted and actual labor costs are in sync.
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Optimize your workforce planning and scheduling with real-time data to ensure you have the right people in the right roles at the right time.
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Use data effectively for predictive modeling of attrition, prevent avoidable turnover, compensation analytics, and more.
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Extract, streamline, and visualize data across your various ERPs and other systems to stay alert to crucial issues and KPIs.
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Staffing Optimization Solution
Staffing Optimization Solution
Leading Self Storage Provider
- Leading Self Storage provider struggled with limited insight into their staffing and labor models and a “one-size-fits-all” staffing approach.
- Kaizen rapidly delivered a configurable staffing optimization model, gap assessment, roadmap, and staffing recommendations, reducing labor costs by 8%.
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Workforce Planning Optimization
Workforce Planning Optimization
Theme Park Operator
- One of the US’ largest theme park operators wanted to optimize their park operations – specifically, workforce labor by department – to maximize guest experience and avoid unnecessary costs
- Kaizen delivered a workforce planning optimization solution that generated a 15% operating cost avoidance
Optimize your supply chain from procurement to delivery with advanced analytics.
We provide organizations with a strategic edge in supply chain management. Our comprehensive analytics solutions cover critical aspects including Supply Chain Distribution, Procurement Optimization, Fraud Anomaly Detection, Route Optimization, Compliance, and more.
By integrating Kaizen’s supply chain capabilities into your operations, you’re transforming your supply chain into a dynamic, responsive practice with real-time, data-driven improvements that drives business growth and competitive advantage.
Our process streamlines data sourcing, aggregation, and centralized reporting under the guidelines of supply chain regulatory requirements (USMCA, IRA, UFLPA), offering a single, efficient hub for all your data needs. Moreover, our team excels in converting complex regulatory requirements into actionable technical specifications, ensuring our solutions are compliance-focused.
Key Benefits
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Achieve a leaner supply chain with optimized procurement and distribution strategies, reducing unnecessary expenditures and improving speed to market
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Lower supply chain costs through strategic procurement practices, better price comparison analytics, efficient logistics planning, and minimized risk of fraud
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Proactively detect and manage fraud risks, ensuring the integrity and security of your supply chain operations, thereby protecting your reputation and assets.
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Ensure compliance with international trade laws and regulatory requirements to avoid penalties
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Route Optimization
Route Optimization
Transportation & Logistics Provider
- A Transportation & Logistics provider struggled with its manual routing system and a driver supply shortage.
- Kaizen developed and deployed a Route Optimizer which improved routing flexibility, reduced overall miles driven, and generated a 21% profit uplift.
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Procurement Fraud Detection Solution
Dive deep into your R&D, design, and manufacturing processes to pinpoint inefficiencies and refine operations, ensuring a seamless transition from concept to end product.
By focusing on Manufacturing Process Tracking, Supply Chain Distribution, Quality Control, Plant Utilization, Predictive Maintenance of Equipment/Machinery, and Product Scheduling, we offer a holistic view that identifies areas for improvement and optimizes production.
Clients leverage our expertise to reduce product discard, effectively blend scrap material, optimize costs related to the usage of heat and power systems, and improve utilization of machinery and other resources.
By integrating data-driven insights into the product development and manufacturing lifecycle, we empower businesses to not only meet but exceed the evolving demands of the market, ensuring a competitive edge in innovation and production efficiency.
Key Benefits
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Leverage insights into every stage of the design and manufacturing process to foster innovation and streamline operations.
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Enhance product quality and adapt quickly to market changes with precise scheduling and datadriven change management
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Identify and eliminate bottlenecks across all your plant locations to improve Overall Operational Efficiency (OOE).
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Minimize costly operational interruptions by identifying and addressing equipment issues before they lead to failures, ensuring continuous production flow
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Plant Utilization
Plant Utilization
Multi-national Chemical Manufacturer
- Multi-national Chemical Manufacturer desired to optimize plant utilization across their manufacturing units, which operated in parallel but were each subject to different economics.
- Kaizen integrated multiple data sources and optimized monthly production across units, resulting in an overall $16 million profit increase.
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Daily Manufacturing Process Tracking
Daily Manufacturing Process Tracking
Global Manufacturing Company
- Manufacturing company needed to more accurately estimate critical KPI measures, but their new ERP system implementation was disrupting the flow of data as well as timeliness, impacting critical KPI measurements.
- Kaizen architected a solution in an alternative technology stack for new reports with enhanced data engineering logic that delivered reliable and timely KPI measures for plant operators and managers, resulting in 0.5% fixed cost reduction.
Trust our team of experts to increase controls and visibility, connect legal and compliance data to reduce risk, and uncover new opportunities.
Global trade law compliance is complex and ever-changing. We help you comply with labor laws, driving reporting requirements, goods categorization, and customs declarations so you can navigate the labyrinth of regulations with confidence.
Boost the visibility into critical compliance/legal data and give your team the insights it needs to reduce risk. With Kaizen, our analytics systems will seamlessly integrate with existing systems such as RISKTRAC Legal Tracker to make it easier for business leaders and decision-makers.
Key Benefits
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Drive proactive risk management efforts by ensuring all regulatory, compliance and legal requirements are met.
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Use cutting-edge AI tool to detect anomalies hidden in complex procurement data and quickly identify areas of concern before it’s too late.
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Unify data across legal, compliance, and procurement departments to generate impactful insights.
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Rapidly generate reports and customized dashboards to track all compliance needs and easily track the status of pending action items.
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Legal & Compliance Performance Dashboards
Legal & Compliance Performance Dashboards
Global Logistics Services Provider
- Client’s critical legal data was located in disparate locations and managed by different teams, making analysis time consuming and cumbersome
- Kaizen consolidated data sources into dashboards and reports with dynamic visualizations, eliminating weeks of manual effort, improving visibility to stakeholders, and generating 20% labor efficiency savings
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Legal Predictive Analytics and Reporting
Legal Predictive Analytics and Reporting
National Hospitality Brand
- National Hospitality Brand had key legal stats stored in multiple databases being managed by different teams. Compiling and organizing data was cumbersome, and static data visualizations needed improvement.
- Using the KaizenInsights Legal Predictive Analytics & Reporting offering built in AWS, Kaizen unified multiple data sources into one consolidated view with real-time, dynamic, and integrated visualizations, resulting in $1+M in data driven insights and 20% labor efficiency savings.
Benefits
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Drive operational efficiencies across the company and supply chain
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Manage risk and compliance with greater oversights
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Integrate your data into one unified view with digital traceability, giving you holistic insights into your operations
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Improve workforce retention to reduce attrition costs, and boost productivity by optimizing workforce planning and scheduling
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Optimize plant utilization to reduce waste, lower costs, and increase throughput
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Develop innovative products that rise to meet the future marketplace
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Rest easier knowing you’ve prepared effective strategies for growth
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Enhance customer satisfaction and build long-term loyalty
Our Promise
RAPID VALUE
- Rapid business benefits with Kaizen Agile approach
- AWS & Microsoft vendor certifications
- Rapid Cloud Migration Framework
- Foster continuous improvement
SEAMLESS EXECUTION
- Unmatched success in end-to-end execution
- Realization of value against evolving project challenges
- Experienced subject matter experts with both deep and broad skills
SUSTAINABILITY
- Flexible engagement models
- Automation and orchestration of work product in proprietary Kaizen Delivery Platform
- Client team buy-in / adoption / training
- Leverage industry best practices – including what NOT to do
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No matter your industry, company size, or business need, we’ve had experience across the board, and we could have a solution for you! Contact us, and we’ll get back to you ASAP!