The document discusses various issues an organization may face and areas a consultant could help address. Key issues include: 1) Staffing costs being too high or staff not efficiently using their time. 2) Revenue generated per unit of time being too low. 3) High costs of chemicals, supplies, products, transportation and inefficient processes. 4) The organization lacking the right type, size, competencies or distribution of staff, machines, and management of quality, the environment, and facilities to operate profitably.

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Organization Economy
Organization
Economy
Staffing Too high cost of staff
Time Organizational time-inefficiency Too small revenue per time unit
Supplies/raw material
Chemicals Chemicals costs/use is too high
Products
Cost of transport too high
Quality
Various types of
problems that the
consultant has to
address
Too large/small or wrong type of
organization to make money
Missing competency or surplus
staff
Machines/other
equipment
Distribution of machines
inappropriate across the
organization
Machine cost too high with respect
to revenue
Company needs a better
organization to handle raw
material
Raw material cost is too high,
inefficient supply chain
Company needs better
organization to be able to manage
chamicals
Organization incompatible with
respect to product types,
manufacturing, sales etc
Products too expensive to
manufacture
Transportation/Logisti
cs
Organization does not permit
good transport-/logistics chains
Organization lacks quality
system/quality management and
-staff
Products too expensive due to large
amount of discarded products
and/or low quality

2. Environment
Work environment
Facilities
Organization lacking
environmental management/good
environmental management
measures
Environmental/waste problems lead
to high costs, or high energy
expenditures etc
Organization lacks work
environment (occupational health)
management/organization
Bad work environment leads to high
costs: Sick leave, accidents,
readjustment/restaffing and
rehabilitation etc
Facilities unsuitable for present
company organization
Facilities too expensive for
operations
Processes (overall,
manufacture)
Company organization does not fit
present processes/manufacture
Present processes are too expensive
(manufacturing costs are too high,
price of product cannot be raised
enough to compensate)

3. Staffing Time Machines/other equipment
Staffing
insufficient/inappropriate
over time
Staffing insufficient or
wrong competency for
machines
Too much downtime/too much
non-useful time as a percentage of
machine runtime
staffing insufficient for
raw materials handling
Raw material supply is too time-
consuming/irregular supply
timeframe
Machines poorly suited for raw
materials used
Staffing insufficient for
chemicals handling, wrong
competency for chemicals
handling
Chemical supply is too time-
consuming/irregular supply
timeframe
Machines not suitable for
chemicals used or vice versa
Staffing insufficient for
product handling (product
registry, supply chain,
development, sales etc)
Products take too long to
manufacture/to long lead time or
time for development
Machines not suitable for new
product types under completion
Staffing insufficient for
transports within/outside
company
Transports/other logistics are too
slow or time-consuming
Machines/equipment which
promotes logistics are missing
Company lacks staff
within quality
management
Quality controls/quality
acceptance takes too long;
Product quality does not match
timeframe for control measures
Machines of too poor quality or
too poor quality
testing/calibration of machines