CMS work with clients in three ways:

Rapid Assessments

Solution Implementation

Training  Programs

Rapid Assessments

CMS conducts Rapid Assessments to help clients identify what and where to improve and to quantify the benefits they will receive from implementing our TOC Solutions.  Rapid Assessments take approximately 2 to 4 weeks to complete and involve a combination of client interviews, analysis of operational and financial data, Theory of Constraints training, and a workshop with the client’s Executive Team.

Rapid Assessment Guarantee

Based on our 10 year experience with many Rapid Assessments, we are very confident in our ability to identify value for clients.  CMS fully refunds the cost of the Rapid Assessment if we are not able to show a client how to at least:

• Increase effective operating capacity by 25%,
• Reduce Project lead time by 25%
• Reduce overall inventory by 25%, or
• Improve product availability by 25%

The focus of a Rapid Assessment includes:

Capacity Misallocations

• from producing or shipping too much of the wrong product / work

Poor Synchronization of Material / Information

• from not having the right raw material, purchased parts, manufactured components, finished product, information, or approvals at the right area / time in the operational flow

Loss of Operational Capacity on critical resources

• from having too much downtime, lack of work standards, and weak quality management, etc.
• from too much bad multi-tasking, lost task safety, and too many cost driven vs. flow driven measures

Once the interviews and data analysis are complete, CMS ensures that the management team attends one of our Training Programs to understand how the TOC concepts apply to and benefit their business. 

Rapid Assessments conclude with an Executive Team workshop.  A typical agenda includes:

• Overall Rapid Assessment Scorecard
• Observations and Findings from Data Analysis
• Improvement Vision and Recommendations
• Value Proposition
• Implementation Plan