Food & Beverage

     If you are like most food and beverage manufacturers, you deal with weekly and seasonal swings in production that not only increase the per unit cost of production but also make employees' lives unpredictable.  Like most food and beverage manufacturers, you can probably improve your work schedules in ways that will extend right to your bottom line. Unlike adding employees, materials, or capital equipment, better scheduling is a more cost-effective way to improve profitability.

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     Most managers are experts at making their current schedule work; however, we rarely find that the current schedule is the optimal system for deploying capital and personnel.  In many cases, schedules are inherited, based upon tradition, or copied from a nearby facility.  Therefore, it is not surprising that the hidden costs of being experts in the wrong system add up.  Coleman Consulting Group identifies and converts hidden costs into quickly recognizable cost savings and profit making opportunities.  A good schedule can save millions. A bad schedule will cost money every year.

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     As plants flex their production to meet demand, they can find themselves asking, or even forcing, their employees to work Saturdays and Sundays. Many plants wait to make the decision to work a weekend until Thursday or Friday.  Now, not only are employees losing time off, but they are also missing out on plans they may have made. The right schedule is a win-win for the company and employees.

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