lean manufacturing or consulting companies. Train your managers to be a lean expert and a business analyst

1. FBMC
Senior management
development program

2. Specialist training company for high
performing middle and senior
management

3. We enhance management
performance by:
 Training individuals to become business
analyst
 Providing insight to world class tools and
techniques used by management consulting
organisations
 Using your business model and
management information to identify
opportunities with your teams

4. We will help you deliver
substantial bottom line results
 Set up of strategic projects for each member
of the team
 On going coaching and project reviews
 In depth training of specialist tools
 Reliability centered maintenance
 Six Sigma
 Lean manufacturing

5. Where do you go to deliver bottom
line results?
Lean Manufacturing
Train your teams in tools and techniques
Management Consultants
Analyse your business and manage
improvement projects

6. Often misunderstood and used in the
wrong context.
Requires a cultural shift which makes it
slow to realise the benefits.
Often not linked to clear cash benefits.
Complex cross functional issues not
always addressed.
Does not take into consideration the
unique issues associated with companies
business model.
Can cause major conflict with the
management team.
Projects paid on results can force
short term deliverables that can lead to
longer term issues.
Often not owned by the management
team so benefits not sustainable after
the project is complete.
The risks of using
Consultants
Why you shouldn’t just
go for lean programs

7. Firstly we spend time with you understanding
your business model and your issues.
At FBMC we take time to
understand your business
Your teams learn how to identify cross
functional issues, the impact on the bottom
line, and how to develop meaningful projects
that deliver results.
We then train your
management team to be
analysts and consultants
We will teach lean manufacturing principles and
provide guidance and support during the project
life cycle.
We will make sure you deliver the quick wins as
well as delivering long term sustainability.
Then we help your teams to
pick the relevant tools to
deliver the benefits

8. Senior management
Development program
The three stages in detail

9. Customised training program
for your business
We don’t provide you with off the shelf
training packages
 Firstly we carry out a desk top analysis
 Financial information
 Sales profiles
 Margins by SKU
 Material and labour costs
 Variances
 KPI data
 Then we attend site to understand your
business
 Production process
 Management structure
 Planning process
 People issues
 Operational performance
 Finally we remodel our training programs to suit
your business
To be meaningful we have to understand your
business model and your issues

10. Training program
Firstly we review your business model with your
teams
 Your sales and planning model
 Daily and weekly sales profiles
 Stocking policy
 Order delivery profile
 Planning constraints
 Your manufacturing model
 The supply chain and constraints by department
 Identification of Pinch points
 Understanding of your financial model
 P and L structure
 BOMS, Materials and labour structure
 Margin analysis, theoretical v actual
 Contribution effect by product
 Over head structure and budgets
 Management controls and reporting systems
 Management roles and responsibilities
 KPIs and hierarchy
 Meeting structures ,daily weekly, monthly
 Action planning, short medium and long term
Secondly we train your team in analysts tools and
techniques
 Analysts tool box
 How consultants identify the opportunities
 Tools and techniques used
 How the story board is developed
 Develop hypothesis of your business issues
 Design the studies
 Use management information available
 On site observations
 Review of information and Identify the core issues
 Gap analysis and identify the opportunity
Thirdly we apply practical use of the tools within
your business

11. We help your teams prepare detailed
project plans that are linked to cash
and the bottom line.
We then help set up reviews to keep
you on track.
Project planning is key
to delivering results
We train your teams on lean
thinking, then we offer training on
relevant lean tools and
techniques.
Lean thinking brings
together solutions
We offer follow up coaching and
mentoring support to keep the
project on track.
Follow up coaching
keeps you on track
Projects training program

12. What you can expect
 Typically £1M to £2 M on the bottom line per
annum
 Quick wins along with long term continuous
improvements
 A management team that can deliver
change management programs
 A cultural shift that will move you from a
reactive to proactive organisation