Manufacturing
Jigsaw Business Group has a team made up of specialist manufacturing process improvement consultants who have global hands-on experience, working across all manner of product manufacturing sectors. We have a clear understanding of the global challenges facing businesses operating in today’s climate of continued change. And the mitigating strategies and actions required to ensure businesses achieve their goals of on time delivery in full, while achieving all quality and cost requirements.
Support for manufacturing businesses
Whether you’re looking for support in business improvement, your supply chain, or you need industry experts to recruit for specialised vacancies. We cover a wide range of services to meet all your needs as a growing manufacturing business. By using our manufacturing business consulting services, we can provide you with the necessary skills and resources to set you up for long term success in a sector that is consistently evolving.
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What challenges do manufacturing businesses face?
Manufacturing is a sector that never stands still, it is always evolving to meet the next demands of the market. This means that businesses need to be both resilient and agile, with the ability to implement controlled change, both planned and unplanned, and strive for continuous improvement and optimisation of the manufacturing process.
Whether it be introducing a new product or process technology or developing contingency plans that react to unplanned events or interruptions in the global supply chain. Jigsaw Business Group’s experienced consultants have the knowledge and experience to mitigate risk and deliver process robustness, ensuring a stable platform for continuous improvement.
Our approach
With the help of a manufacturing process consultant like Jigsaw, you can identify any potential issues that could arise across the industry as a whole and ensure your business is ready for anything that might come its way. Unique sector challenges require bespoke business solutions, which our experts at Jigsaw deliver.
We take a focused and measurable approach, delivering premium level complementary support services using a team of industry specialists with unrivalled manufacturing sector knowledge. This enables us to quickly scale our resources and accurately meet the needs of our client projects. Jigsaw can ensure your manufacturing business is operating as efficiently and cost effectively as possible through our multi-disciplinary services including:
- Business consultancy
- Recruitment
- Sustainable solutions
- Digital solutions
Training and Development Case Study
Project Summary
Product: Edge computing
Service: Setting up of project management framework
The Challenge
- The client faced many problems affecting their product delivery: scope management, cost creep, late deliveries and feasibility issues
- In addition, top management were only notified once things have gone wrong or escalated
The Solution
- Jigsaw embedded a senior programme manager in Eurotech to study and understand the constraints and develop a framework to be used in future projects
- Utilising a four-step approach (process mapping, project delivery, documentation, communication) our SPM worked with the client’s team to create a new Programme Management Office (PMO) framework
Why Jigsaw Business Group?
- A proven track record with a team possessing real industry experience, as such, possessing empathy to support businesses accordingly, understanding individual pain points.
- Unrivalled sector knowledge and technical expertise with an ability to look at things from a fresh perspective to deliver process driven solutions that help businesses to reduce costs, increase efficiencies and streamline business operations;
Key Achievements
- The client was left with a robust framework which included processes, documentation and reporting structure
- Following two successful pilots, the methodology was adopted and is now used company-wide:
- Visibility of issues enables top management to assess project’s health in real-time
- Transparency and granularity of issues as they arise enable quicker reaction
- Comparative visualisation of complex programmes enables better distribution of resources
- Key KPI’s can be measured against targets in real-time, allowing for flexing of resources and changes to product before finalisation of design
- The client faced many problems affecting their product delivery: scope management, cost creep, late deliveries and feasibility issues
- In addition, top management were only notified once things have gone wrong or escalated
- Jigsaw embedded a senior programme manager in Eurotech to study and understand the constraints and develop a framework to be used in future projects
- Utilising a four-step approach (process mapping, project delivery, documentation, communication) our SPM worked with the client’s team to create a new Programme Management Office (PMO) framework
- A proven track record with a team possessing real industry experience, as such, possessing empathy to support businesses accordingly, understanding individual pain points.
- Unrivalled sector knowledge and technical expertise with an ability to look at things from a fresh perspective to deliver process driven solutions that help businesses to reduce costs, increase efficiencies and streamline business operations;
- The client was left with a robust framework which included processes, documentation and reporting structure
- Following two successful pilots, the methodology was adopted and is now used company-wide:
- Visibility of issues enables top management to assess project’s health in real-time
- Transparency and granularity of issues as they arise enable quicker reaction
- Comparative visualisation of complex programmes enables better distribution of resources
- Key KPI’s can be measured against targets in real-time, allowing for flexing of resources and changes to product before finalisation of design
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