Kenneth Hytrek

Specialized in sustainable factory cost and inventory reduction in a short time through best practices from Lean & Operational Excellence.

More than 1,000 successful workshops on cost and inventory optimization in production, organization, logistics, and supply chain.

Industries: Mechanical Engineering, Automotive, FMCG - Medium-sized Companies

Services:

- Lean Transformation (Implementing Lean Management)

- Effective S&OP, Production Planning, and Dispatch

- Efficiency Programs in Production, Logistics, Supply Chain, Organization, Quality

- Taskforce Management (Resolving delivery backlogs quickly)

Implementation and expansion of Lean Management in medium-sized companies from the process industry, mechanical engineering, and automotive.

Approach:

- Potential Analysis

- Pilot Project

- Top Management Qualification (Training & Simulation, Benchmark Tour, Transfer)

- Lean Factory Concept (Plant Vision, Strategy, Change Concept, Lean Organization, Methods & Tools (Production System), Key Performance Indicator System, Qualification Concept and Academy)

- Training of the Lean Organization and Coaching of Management, Plant Management, and other Executives.

Other diverse projects with a focus on:

- Value Stream Optimization (Lean Planning & Pull Control, Flow Production and Pacing, Zero-Defect Strategy)

- Lean Supply Chain and Logistics

- Policy Deployment (Hoshin Kanri)

- Tools (Value Stream Mapping/Design, Heijunka (Leveling & Smoothing), Supermarkets and Kanban / FIFO Buffers and ConWIP, Autonomous Changeover, SMED, TPM, 5S)