AS Compete Ltd has been established to provide cost effective consultancy for manufacturing clients to enable them to drive their competitive performance. Programmes are developed with clear goals aligned to business strategy, working at all levels to establish engagement and ownership of activities. Programmes range from short, tightly focussed activities through to facility transformation. Activities may combine both strategic step change and workforce led daily tactical improvements to enable everyone to contribute to the improvement journey.Critical to successful consulting for a client is the experience and ability to rapidly understand your business context and your people, applying approaches that will work for your needs from high volume flowline manufacturers to low volume, make to order. A variety of improvement techniques are pragmatically adapted for best benefit and understanding, rather than dogmatic delivery of 'tools', with a strong focus on ‘learn by doing’ to develop the capability of staff to implement, sustain and extend the gains.Andy has wide experience across business transformation needs assessment, strategy and policy deployment, VSM, Lean and TPM, New product introduction and Project Management as well as Supply Chain Processes and Supplier Development. Experience across aerospace, automotive, industrial products, process industries, food and beverage, construction and building products, service industry and healthcare products ensures that programmes and approaches are developed that fit your business.

Responsible for all Operational activity at Industry Forum as part of the Executive team, managing consultancy and learning centre teams. Ownership of S&OP process including operational and financial forecast. Programme oversight, management and delivery of Industry Forum activities within the UK Nationally funded NMCL and SC21 C&G programmes.

Responsible for all Industry Forum activities within the aerospace and defence sector. Industry Forum helps major global manufacturers understand, optimise and improve manufacturing capability and business performance. Focus on management of major transformation programme activities and leading team to develop of Industry Forum as the leading provider of aerospace management systems 'core tools' for NPI and as the global training provider in this area for a key OEM customer.

As a member of the NMCL assessor cadre, I am part of a national, cross sector approach to measuring and improving the competitiveness of manufacturing supply chain companies. NMCL aims to raise UK workforce capability, boost economic growth and increase exports. For more information on NMCL, visit the website at www.nmcl.co.uk and follow NMCL at www.linkedin.com/company/nmcl .

Responsible for all Industry Forum's activities within the Food, Drink, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare sectors. Working with clients to develop Total Productive Management (TPM), Lean Process Improvement and Six Sigma programmes aligned to business strategy and delivering sustainable, long term excellence.

Management of business excellence engineers operations team. Development and planning of client improvement programmes. Workload planning, skills development and recruitment. Leading client activity programmes, able to deliver activities in French language.