CONNSTEP's Operational Assessment

Manufacturers that are interested in company-wide improvements, benchmarking against others in the same sector, creating strategic targets and setting business growth goals need to begin with business assessments.

CONNSTEP's Operational Assessment program is designed to help identify concrete opportunities for improvement that lead to lower costs and higher profits.

Operational Assessment
Economic impact of operational improvements
Based on evaluations of operational performance such as on-time delivery, equipment utilization, scrap generation, etc., potential improvements are equated with bottom-line returns. A nationwide database for a wide range of industrial sectors is used to benchmark your company against leaders in its industrial category. The benefits allow you to decide where you should best apply your resources to maximize returns.

An CONNSTEP Improvement Planning Tool
CONNSTEP's Operational Assessment Transformational Planner is the ideal tool for charting your company's journey to achieve lower costs and higher profits. The Transformation Planner starts with benchmarking data to show 12 key metrics in comparison to other companies in your industry sector. Drawing on CONNSTEP's database of nearly 11,000 industry records, the Transformation Planner has been in used by manufacturing companies since 2001. This proprietary tool is available exclusively through CONNSTEP.

Realistic Improvement Targets
The model automatically sets improvement targets for your organization to consider. With discussion and agreement, these targets may be adjusted, based on realistic inputs of priority ranking, timeframe and resource availability under your management control.

Once final targets have been established, the Operational Assessment calculates the potential onetime
and recurring annual financial benefits of reaching those targets. A main benefit to achieving those
targeted improvements is the increase in available manufacturing capacity. After the implementation
of improvements, companies often find that they can efficiently complete their orders with fewer production hours. With the additional capacity, the opportunity exists to find and fulfill more production orders, all while keeping their operation just as busy as before.

The Operational Assessment allows companies to model how much capacity can be made available by
implementing/achieving production improvements. Thereby it estimates the resulting opportunity for growth - growth that can occur with no additional investment in machinery and with no increase in production hours.

Step-by-Step Transformation
The process begins by completing a Competitiveness Review or PBS Questionnaire. Once the responses are analyzed by CONNSTEP and entered, the initial Operational Assessment report is generated.

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