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Solving Your Greatest Manufacturing Challenges

Quick - Affordable - Expertise

We lean in with you on your most perplexing manufacturing challenges so that your improved operational results will be sustained.

You will know your team is engaged through their buy-in to the plan, ownership in the outcomes, and advocacy for the value of your improved enterprise management system.

We lean in with you on your most perplexing manufacturing challenges so that your improved operational results will be sustained.

You will know your team is engaged through their buy-in to the plan, ownership in the outcomes, and advocacy for the value of your improved enterprise management system.

Solving Your Greatest Manufacturing Challenges

Quick - Affordable - Expertise

We lean in with you on your most perplexing manufacturing challenges so that your improved operational results will be sustained.

Your teams will be energized with upside opportunities. You will tell how engaged your team is through their Buy in to the plan. Ownership in the outcomes.  Advocate the value of your improved enterprise management system.

Providing our expertise to these valued clients:

Case Studies

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Improving yield delivers $3 million to bottom line

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“Focus on the Floor” engaged plant workforce drove customer success and $6 million savings

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Millennial workforce achieves 100% performance improvement

We Recognize and Understand YOUR Manufacturing Needs

If you are facing any of these manufacturing challenges . . .

Annual CHAOS report, 66% of technology projects (based on the analysis of 50,000 projects globally) end in partial or total failure.

WSJ reports that over 75% corporate CFOs preparing for 2023 recession….and that means an even greater emphasis on Productivity and Efficiency….

YOUR PEOPLE

  • Skilled Labor retention
  • Turnover reduction
  • Innovation – Commercialization
  • Training-leadership, skilled

YOUR PERFORMANCE

  • COGS
  • Throughput efficiencies
  • First pass quality
  • First hour, full power
  • Changeover managment
  • Logistics
  • Supply chain variabilities

YOUR TECHNOLOGY

  • Cap Ex management
  • Automation
  • Digital Transformation
  • Demand Planning

Our Solutions Capabilities Are Broad and Deep

Working with you and your team developing YOUR solutions FIT for you (this provides insights on how we do our work)

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Assess

“FSO Institute helped us develop an action plan for our facility and deliver $3.0 million in savings in less than 3 months.”
- VP Manufacturing
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Improve

“FSO Institute helped improve our order fulfillment accuracy to 98% and minimized fines and cuts for our top SKU’s.”
- VP Supply Chain
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Sustain

“FSO Institute assisted in developing a sales and operational planning system which allowed us to better match our sales and production and reduce overall inventory while improving fill rates.”-
- VP Director Operations

Our Coaches

17

Coaches with a breadth and depth of industry experience

540

years of experience in manufacturing operations

Featured FSO Coach

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Mark Cacciatore

Manufacturing Coach, FSO Institute
Former SVP Operations ConAgra Foods

Mark’s expertise and passion is in helping manufacturing teams accelerate improvement and build long term organizational capability through sensible implementation of Process Reliability, TPM, and High-Performance Work Systems. He has numerous experiences turning around under-performing operations, taking them from “worst to first.” His 38 years of manufacturing operations experience spans three Fortune 500 CPG companies including Procter & Gamble, Campbell Soup Company, and ConAgra Foods. Mark’s responsibilities included Sr. VP Supply Chain Operations, VP North American Manufacturing, General Management of multiple plants, HR Site Management, and Corporate Leadership of strategic initiatives.

Our coaches have the expertise and experiences that come from Some of the Best CPGs in the World.

Thought Leadership

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(571) 332-4594

schlegel@fsoinstitute.com

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