Managing Director And Principal Consultant
CurrentAS 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.