What We Do
Anchor(msi) Ltd provides national coverage for all aspects of client service.
Our background in industry, at board or senior management level, makes us eminently suitable to understand client’s requirements and to communicate at all levels.
- Third party startups and the integration of companies into shared warehouse facilities.
- New warehouse start-up requirements, including storage and handling specification and sourcing.
- Experience with a wide range of materials handling equipment and applications.
- Project management experience in new technology applications and warehouse start up
- KPI introduction and management
- Supplier service level agreements to maintain standard and manage fiscal spend.
- Project Management and implementation of strategy decisions from planning through to implementation
- Warehouse analysis and specification of existing facilities with recommendations for future improvements.
- ISO specification and accreditation.
- Stock location systems, utilising bar code technology with batch, on line and radio data terminals.
- Warehouse and factory access security plus time and attendance systems.
- Shop Floor data capture within warehouse and manufacturing environments.
- Parcel Sortation Centre with the Littlewoods Home Shopping Group and Business Express
- Operations management of a UK wide project for Securicor Cash machine installation.
- Initiated the introduction of the first mobile cash machine application in the UK (applications include Cheltenham Festival and the Grand National at Aintree)
- Factory Layout and material flow
- Shop floor and first line supervision Continuous Improvement training
During our client partnerships we have utilised the following experience:
- Strategic reviews of operational structures and the reduction of indirect functions and support facilities.
- Production Control system application and real time booking, for in process tracking and machine centre planning.
- Project management, introducing new technology into applications while minimising disruption to existing operations.
- Introduction of Key Performance Indices, benchmarking for cost saving reviews and improved MCV efficiencies.
- Team building and productivity reviews for localised decision making and employee awareness.
- National and International quality system implementation
- New warehouse start up requirements, including storage and handling specification and sourcing.
- Stock management, i.e. the control, movement and monitoring of stock.
- Introduction of internal and external customer care programmes.
- Capital acquisition involving robotics, multi-flexible roll forming, and the latest process equipment.
The Challenge - Business Game
The Challenge is a business game aimed at providing practical demonstrations of teamwork and the application of Continuous Improvement.
Using this simple tool, teams have been able to fully understand the application of continuous improvement and teambuilding and have been able to apply it themselves back in the workplace.
- The Challenge is a new and original activity that gets across the crucial message that everyone is part of the company team and has an active part to play in the development of the business.
- The Challenge creates a greate atmosphere. Participants experience first hand the need to work together to create a Win Win culture
The team is responsible for the salvation of a business currently failing to meet its customers' requirements in terms of quality and supply. They must plan the manufacture and sales of high tech products to satisfy customer demands and meet stringent quality requirements.
From the appointment of a management team and the allocation of new roles for the workforce, everyone is required to take responsibility for the success of the new business.
As a team they must work out the right decisions, recognise how to monitor performance and develop a culture committed to improving quality for the benefit of the company. They will have to cope with peer pressure, presures imposed by outside sources, and of course the greatest pressure, time.
The team will plan new ideas, then sell those new concepts and ways of working to those directly affected, making the benefits to be gained clear to everyone.
Tough decisions have to be made, costs examined and finally profits declared!
Meetings become focused as participants pour over ideas and explore the potential before decisions are made.
Motivation is fired by realism as participants become fully immersed in the Challenge.
The Challenge requires:
- Good teamwork
- Communication skills
- Problem solving skills
These are developed throughout the game to complete the task and meet the deadline.
To win the game, everyone must work together towards a common goal.
The Objective
- To experience the value of teamwork
- To understand the methods available for problem solving
- To recognise the internal customer
This is achieved by involving all participants in active problem-solving in pursuance of a solution for a struggling business.
- Practical experience
- Active discussion and adoption of a structured problem-solving approach
- Development of new ideas
- Testing of theory and implementation into practice
To learn more about how The Challenge can benefit your own team, contact us.
| Waste down by 30% | Cost savings of 56% |
| Productivity up by 300% | Process changeovers improved by 49% |