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MBE has been trading successfully for more than 19 years. Our primary goal is to help manufacturing companies achieve excellence. It is your people that deliver success or failure. They must have the right tools and knowledge to consistently deliver success. MBE aims to provide that knowledge. One of the hottest topics at present is Sales & Operations Planning. This has been around for many years, as part of MRPII and ERP, but only in the past few years have many companies adopted it and realised the benefits. MBE has provided education, training, workshops and consultancy to a number of companies. In the past 12 months it has been our number one activity. We published a booklet on S&OP, and it has almost sold out. Robin Goodfellow recently attended the S&OP Best of the Best Conference in Chicago, attended by about 300 people interested in S&OP. We have the material from the conference, which we can discuss with you. So, if you are interested in starting or improving your S&OP process, or you need to learn more, then please click the link below, send us an email, or give us a call. There are 3 major objectives for a business to achieve, in no particular sequence :
World Class companies do all three. We aim to help companies work towards all three, via a programme of education and workshops that may span 2 to 3 years. There are 3 essential building blocks required to consistently achieve success: A good manufacturing planning and control system. This will encompass the principles of MRPII, Manufacturing Resource Planning, implemented probably in an ERP, Enterprise Resource Planning system. In today's world the system must span the value adding chain, from supplier, through the manufacturer, the value adder, through the distribution channels, however simple or complex, to the customer. This is Supply Chain Management. The chain is only as strong as the weakest link in the chain. All the links in the chain, from process to process, from company to company, must be strong and unbroken. Advanced Planning and Scheduling, APS, may have a role. An understanding of the principle of value adding. Where is value added? What value does the customer buy? What is not value adding (NVA)? These NVA activities represent waste, and must be eliminated. This makes the value stream flow faster, reducing lead times, reducing inventory, and improving quality. These principles are embodied in the concepts of Just in Time, JIT, and Lean Manufacturing, leading to the Lean Enterprise. There are many problem-solving techniques in the toolbox to help identify and eliminate waste. A different way of managing people. The company culture must change. Everyone must be empowered. Companies have made massive leaps forward by making these changes. MBE aims to educate people, from top to bottom of companies, in all three of the above, and to support companies making the massive change that is required. We can provide whatever you need, from a number of one day specific courses and workshops to tailored programmes that cover a much longer duration. These programmes can lead to formal qualifications from the Institute of Operations Management, IOM, and/or the American Production & Inventory Control Society, the USA organisation for operations management. MBE's education programme has evolved over the past twelve years. The programme spans Manufacturing Planning and Control systems (MP&C), Manufacturing Resource Planning, MRPII, Enterprise Resource Planning, ERP, Supply Chain Management, SCM, Just in Time, JIT, Lean Manufacturing, and more. We have a policy of continuous improvement, so courses are updated and improved on a regular basis. We developed a booklet on MRPII, which is a handy A6 Pocket Guide, that everyone working in a manufacturing environment ought to read. We have sold about 8000 copies, and the 2nd edition has almost sold out. There is a second, very successful, booklet on Sales & Operations Planning. We also stock booklets on Just in Time, the Quality 75 , and the Lean Toolbox. MBE has developed a factory simulation exercise, which may be run independently or as an integral part of any course. The idea is to first simulate how industry has manufactured products in the past - in batches, with a job shop layout, with poor communications, with individual incentive schemes, often with unacceptable results in terms of delivery and quality. We make a real product using well-known plastic building bricks. We try to simulate the real world. We then start to introduce the ideas of just in time and lean manufacturing - kanbans, smaller batch sizes, better layout, and more. We show that significantly better delivery and quality performance may be achieved just by doing a few things differently, and we sow the seeds of how this might be turned into practice in your company. We have a sizeable involvement with the Institute of Operations Management, IOM. Robin Goodfellow lectures on some of their public and in-house courses. He has been a member of the Qualifications and Awards, Q&A, committee for a number of years. He has been a member of the Council and Management Committee. Q&A is responsible for the various professional qualifications that the IOM offers - currently the Certificate, the Diploma, and the Advanced Diploma in Production and Inventory Management, COM, DOM, and ADOM respectively. Robin is actively involved in helping to update and modernise these qualifications. Robin is a Fellow of the IOM. We have also participated in another education programme run by the American Production and Inventory Control Society, APICS, leading to the qualification of the Certificate in Production and Inventory Management, CPIM. This qualification is recognised by many companies around the world as a major indication of knowledge and experience in the area of operations management. Many companies have put some of their employees through this program to give them a truly international qualification. APICS is currently upgrading the structure and content of the qualification and MBE intends to continue to be involved in offering courses leading to the qualification of CPIM. Robin is qualified to the Fellow level, CFPIM. APICS has introduced a new qualification, the Certified Supply Chain Professional, CSCP. We support people going for that qualification. MBE aims to provide consultancy and education to companies striving to be excellent in all that they do. During our 19 years of operation we have provided both education and consultancy to a wide range of organisations, from the small to the very large. We feel that our Client List is quite impressive, and would hope that you might like to join them. We are one of the founder members of the Manufacturing & Logistics Group, MLG. This is an association of like-minded consultants, all of whom have similar objectives to ourselves. Within the Group there is a wide range of experience spanning many years of working in a multitude of manufacturing and consultancy environments. We call upon these resources whenever necessary.. We have a network of further associates with whom we share work as and when necessary.
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