| 6 Sigma Project for Identifying Sourcing Alternatives | Utilizing 6 Sigma techniques, CGN helped determine a sourcing strategy that leverages low cost country advantages while rationalizing the client’s supplier base.
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| Business Process Improvement | CGN assisted a publishing organization within this major manufacturing client to develop a cost effective strategy for information delivery while establishing internetworking between disparate publishing processes within the organization.
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| Change Readiness Improvement | CGN developed the engineering change readiness system for the engine operations division of a heavy equipment manufacturer. CGN rapidly developed a system that supports engineering, operations, and logistics in an environment processing thousands of engineering changes per year across several product platforms.
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| Communication Strategy and Planning | CGN used a combination of empirical data, existing research from Organizational Analysis Design (OAD) inputs, and voice research to identify and target specific communication opportunities within the client organization with the goal of positively affecting employee morale.
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| Complexity Rationalization | CGN helped develop a financial model to measure the cost of business complexity and understand the true cost and margins associated with their product line(s).
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| Defect Reduction Analysis | CGN helped our client determine the theoretical best case level of quality and then helped them understand how their current quality improvement initiatives can contribute towards reaching that desired level.
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| Defects Per Million (DPM) and Warranty Risk Mitigation Program | CGN teamed with our client to develop a database tool that allows for modeling the controls and their potential effects.
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| Engine Supply Chain Study | CGN developed elasticity models for an engine manufacturer to analyze their key supply chain drivers and the potential impact to the organization’s bottom line.
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| Enterprise level NPV Analysis of Tier IV Program | CGN developed a NPV analysis simulation model for our client as they prepared to reengineer their entire product line in six years to meet stringent EPA and EU regulations (Tier IV Program). The client was challenged with identifying the right compliant product mix to maximize the enterprise’s NPV based on regulation constraints, production and sales costs, and price projections.
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| ES Cost Reduction Program | CGN helped our client identify cost sources that could be eliminated or reduced to improve their average profit margin in one of their product families.
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| Establish Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) Requirements | CGN performed APQP mapping, documentation and NPI integration for our client.
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| Forest Product Machine Program | CGN developed a cost predictive model for the specialty products division of a heavy industrial equipment manufacturer. The simulation model incorporated associated program cost reduction initiatives to help determine the probability of achieving the projected cost reductions and analyze the origin of any cost variations.
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| Leadership Culture, Visioning, and Strategic Planning | CGN helped our client change a 100+ year old culture starting with the leadership team.
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| Manufacturing Process Documentation | CGN worked with a client that was looking to create common manufacturing process standards for all its facilities and utilize common tools and techniques across these facilities. CGN provided the client the documentation for these processes which would act as a reference guide for all the resources within the organization.
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| New Logistics Center for Sustainable Business Growth | CGN designed a new 50,000 sq. ft. logistics center for an engineering firm making hydraulics and power units to help them accommodate a new production line at their current storage location.
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| New Product Introduction Accounting Consultation | CGN provided consulting services to create cost roll-ups and analysis for New Product Introduction programs.
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| Process Deployment Methodology Adoption | Process deployment methodology enables large scale rollout of process & systems initiatives throughout a distributed enterprise cutting across typical change resistance and fragmented agenda of sales & delivery channels.
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| Process Modeling & Analysis | CGN helped the product support division of this large manufacturing client determine organizational and process inefficiencies while analyzing different business scenarios in order to optimize resource allocation and minimize costs.
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| Product Health Improvement | CGN entered into a multi-project relationship with a global manufacturer to reduce quality defects by 75% in a 4 month window by building a sustainable organization of rapid response black belts.
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| Product Introduction – Modeling Analysis | CGN helped our client review and analyze a product introduction process to understand areas of improvement and to streamline the process to help achieve cost and cycle time targets.
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| PSD – Marketing Communications Group Study | CGN developed a business process simulation to conduct business simulation analysis for their clients. CGN identified the performance drivers and areas of inefficiencies and recommended feasible business solutions to reduce overall period costs and improve process effectiveness.
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| Rental Business Planning | CGN facilitated business planning sessions for client dealerships in order to help them plan the long-term growth of their rental equipment business.
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| Service Organization and Process Re-Design | CGN assisted the global human services division of a heavy equipment manufacturer to reposition several core functions within the organization. CGN established new functional roles and objectives, redesigned business processes, and developed performance measurements that resulted in the implementation of three key components of the client’s strategic business plan.
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| Strategic Portfolio Management | CGN’s interactive Portfolio Management dashboard provided the CFO of a $10 billion organization the ability to continuously evaluate the financial impact of past and future project’s allocation decisions to achieve cost management targets over a five year period.
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| Strategic Sourcing - Spend Analysis | CGN’s Global Manufacturing Practice provided our client with the tools needed to understand their worldwide spending.
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| Supply Chain Inbound Logistics Center Start-Up and Business Case Development | CGN assisted our client’s Logistics Division in analyzing their key inbound supply chain operations in relationship to revitalizing an existing building. CGN made recommendations regarding the challenges in moving sub-assembly and kitting operations to the revitalized building. CGN also developed a baseline model for understanding the activity - cost relationships for the sub-assembly and kitting operations.
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| Systems Interaction Analysis for an Authoring Process | CGN improved our client’s system maintenance capabilities by developing a system interaction relationship map between various systems that support the technical publications authoring process.
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| Value Stream Analysis - Electronic Delivery Process of Service Manuals | CGN assisted the Service and Support division of a major manufacturer of agricultural and forestry equipment in conducting Value Stream Analysis of their information delivery process. The study identified opportunities to reduce the lead time by 50% and also developed process metrics.
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| Value Stream Mapping - Global Information Authoring & Delivery | CGN assisted the service and support division of this major manufacturing client in studying and reengineering the global information authoring and delivery process for all technical information.
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| Warranty Cost Reduction | CGN helped our client gain visibility to high frequency, high cost warranty items through: mining of key customer warranty data, prioritizing of problems and defining critical implementation projects.
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| Work Force Mgt: Request Management & Prioritization | CGN helped our client develop a long-term roadmap to effectively manage and implement several key initiatives across their organization.
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| Work Structure Analysis | CGN analyzed our client’s organizational effectivety and drivers within the context of a shared assumptions paradigm targeted at capacity recovery.
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| Zone Offense Manufacturing Quality Improvement | CGN assisted this client in understanding, and mitigating high defect rates on a large construction equipment manufacturing line. CGN provided a comprehensive approach and framework to detect and reduce quality defects using a structured approach to gathering, prioritizing, and tracking issues.
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