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FACILITIES CONSOLIDATION SERVICES

At TCA, we have developed a successful consolidation evaluation, planning, and project management process that will enable you to realign and refocus the competitive capabilities of all your manufacturing and process resources and tremendous opportunity for improved profitability.

Whatever the reason for facilities consolidation, TCA has the solutions to assist you in the most important activity your business will ever face. Despite being a typically difficult and painful process, TCA has developed a logical process to evaluate specific strategic and economic drivers that will result in the creation of a consolidation plan that will be highly achievable.

Companies from a wide Cross-section of industries have used TCA’s Facility Consolidation Services to improve profitability, realign and refocus the competitive capabilities of all manufacturing resources and to consolidate operations and management teams

TCA’s Facility Consolidation Experts have provided facility design, expansion, and consolidation services to business and industry for more than two decades. We help companies set new directions by incorporating the power of World Class and Lean techniques into the design of new facilities to enhance overall company performance and success. Our clients have benefited from our services and have been able to reduce costs, increase profits, build stronger employee, customer, and supplier relationships and to survive in competitive markets. Whatever the Facility Design needs you have, our associates are skilled in facilitating interdisciplinary teams to design creative facility plans and cost effective solutions to meet your facility design, plant consolidation, and plant expansion requirements.

Why Consolidation?

There are many reasons to consider consolidating your facilities. Perhaps you’ve made an acquisition, and the new plants represent excess capacity or overlap with your existing facilities. Perhaps you need to consolidate facilities to gain access to valuable markets and suppliers, or you’re considering a move to an area with lower manufacturing costs or a more favorable labor environment.

Whatever the reason, there are many economic considerations to take into
account, including:

• Facility investment
• Relocation
• One-time inventory reduction
• Proceeds from the sale of real estate or plant equipment
• Material and inventory-carrying costs
• Contribution on incremental sales
• Plant closing and start-up
• Factory and administrative labor
• Logistics and occupancy costs

Do the economics of your situation call for action?

Our Facilities Consolidation Services Help You Make The Right Move

We’ve developed a straightforward and logical process (see figure 1) to take you from idea to reality. Our team of experts will begin by defining the opportunity and creating an economic model to identify and analyze alternatives. Once you’ve selected the path you want to take, we document the mission of the new plant, looking at everything from facility layout to systems integration and organization planning.

Who Should Be Involved In the Facilities Consolidation Process?

In our experience, the most successful facilities consolidations – the ones that enable companies to refocus their competitive capabilities and take advantage of new opportunities – are those with clearly defined teams leading the process (see figure 2). We’ll help you set up an Evaluation Team, Steering Team and Detail Planning & Execution Teams. And we’ll work with you every step of the way.

TCA Extreme Lean™ Experts

TCA has provided management consulting, technical assistance and training programs to business and industry for more than two decades. We help companies set new directions by harnessing the power of World Class and Lean techniques.

Our clients are developing Extreme Lean™ capabilities to increase profits, grow market share and solidify long-term relationships with key customers.

Whatever the combination of Lean, Six Sigma, Value Engineering or Information Technology tools your company needs, our associates are skilled in facilitating interdisciplinary teams to achieve creative, cost-effective solutions to many of the difficult challenges managers face in today's hyper-competitive business climate.

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