MAIN INDUSTRY SECTORS

automotive

building products

cabling

distribution

engineering

electrics

electronics

fibres

finance

food & drink

furniture

glass

glass-fibres

logistics

manufacturing

meat processing

metal

packaging

paper

plastics

piping

plumbing

printing

rubber

transport

warehousing

MAIN PROCESSES

assembly

counting

distribution

colouring

extrusion

injection molding

logistics

marketing

manufacturing

mixing

packaging

packing

plastics PE, PP, PVC

printing

sales

thermo- forming

supply chain

warehousing

Disclaimer

WHAT WE HAVE DONE SO FAR

VION Food Group
A 3-months Lean Coaching contract within the supply chain of the Dutch owned high quality food producer. The project started with a SCM analysis followed by a ... Read on

Dairy Crest
A 2-day Lean / Six Sigma process line analysis at a Dairy Crest Prepack Centre for customising ... Read on

UK Shed Manufacturer
Personal advisor to MD to help with turnaround during recession after typical symptoms made him fear for his existence. The implementation of ... Read on

Global Automation and Power Technology Company
In 2009, we complemented their international Engineering Consultancy Team for Business System Validation. FBC supported the activities in governance & compliance auditing / SOX testing. As soon as ... Read on

During 2007 and early 2008, we delivered a supply chain analysis and implemented a complex restructuring task for one of their businesses, a global electro ... Read on

In the latter part of the year the business implemented a new ERP system reducing 9 legacy systems into one. The nine months contract with one of their electrical components business included the managed support during the cutover period from SAP with data cleansing, testing & validation, training & overall planning guaranteeing a seamless on time Go-LIVE handshake.

Following on from that FBC was retained to help the same business with a considerable profitability improvement and SAP optimisation project to align people and processes, to close gaps in the various processes (PP, MM, SD, FI-CO and WM) to cut inventory, reduce fixed costs, improve debtors days, stock turns, product range and product margins.

Bombardier
Project Management Training in the rail industry - ongoing trainer contract.

Corus Steel
Process safety review in European plants as a member of a global consultancy team before and during the TATA takeover.

Magnetar & Citadel Group - US Equity Finance
FBC advised in a consulting function in a major merger/acquisition project and prepared a due diligence evaluation for several European sites.

RNID
The Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) is the largest charity ... Read on

Hamburg Port Authority
Approved supplier for Hamburg Port Authority. HPA ordered ... Read on

Global market studies for PIRA International
FBC Ltd. has completed several contracts with PIRA International, the publisher for the plastic and packaging industry, to undertake ... Read on

Business Start-up

Personal Strategic Advisor / Coach to the MD to help establish the administration and control side of a ten months old business that successfully manufactures and markets exercise devices to an international customer base.

Warehousing & Transport business
Strategic business analysis confirmed that the business was losing money and was on the brink of becoming insolvent. During a six months turnaround management contract, ... Read on

Manufacturing business for automotive cable looms and harnesses
Strategic business analysis targeted to stop profit erosion and implement tools to visualise performance improvements (KPI's), range review and rationalisation, improve cost and quality monitoring, communication and overall efficiencies.

Kitchen and Bedroom furniture manufacturer
Personal strategic advisor and coach to the MD to help sustain the company's profitability (PBIT) while doubling their turnover in less than 1 year. Designed cost saving plan and monitoring tools to ... Read on

Glass fibre-reinforced pipe system manufacturer
18 months Interim MD assignment on behalf of a Japanese venture capitalist to rescue ... Read on

Bed and mattress manufacturer
Part of a UK privately owned Group, six months contract in one of their ... Read on

Publishing & Packaging Businesses
Business Analysis of 2 similar businesses offering packaging and delivery service to the publishing industry with the objective to improve their operational efficiencies within a three months contract. Efficiencies were up by 25%, due to shorter cycle times and higher throughput thanks to a re-layout of the plant, machinery and packaging tables.

Others to include:
Strategic development of high growth SMEs, improvements to inventory management and MRP issues, outsourcing and Business Start-ups within the European industry.