Operations
Today’s hyper-competitive global marketplace heightens the bar in literally every industry. To be successful companies must cut waste, tighten their belts, operate quicker, and become highly efficient. They must hone their core capabilities, implement innovative differentiators, and produce the capability for recurring change.
VMS works with our clients to optimize and transform their operations via practical, sustainable performance improvement measures. We leverage our breadth of functional skills, process and service industry experiences to help build competitive and differentiating operations capabilities that produce value and allow companies to generate profits that can be invested in future growth opportunities.
VMS’s expertise in operations covers the following areas:
Cost efficiency and Asset Control. We examine, find, and implement opportunities to enhance cash flow. We help you release cash from your balance sheet, reduce operational costs, and optimize assets.
Lean. Leanness is a means to drastically transform business competitiveness and responsiveness. VMS’s approach to success is to focus on four key areas: strategy, operational effectiveness, personnel engagement, and performance management.
Operations Analysis. We conduct organizational assessments, management audits and operations reviews for clients that are initiated to isolate problems, weaknesses and other issues that may be affecting performance, results or profitability. Our approach uses analytical techniques such as benchmarking and best practice assessment to provide an independent perspective on ways to improve organizational performance.
Operations Design. We design and help you implement measurable, highly-optimized processes and procedures and integrated operating structures to ensure your company’s success.
Programme Management. Being able to manage medium to large-scale change is critical to operations activities. VMS provides implementation and project management assistance to help you put your strategic management decisions in place. Our approach includes assistance with establishing an implementation plan for a new initiative or change, defining significant progress milestones, monitoring progress and assessing the need for and making mid-course adjustments. We ensure that change initiatives produce the intended results, and that new capabilities are instilled in the organization.
Performance Management. VMS helps companies to continuously improve results and outcomes. Our approach includes assistance with establishing or clarifying performance goals, and implementing systems to manage these goals. Performance management systems can be developed at employee, organizational unit or enterprise-wide levels to generate efficiencies, open up new markets, and deliver sustainable competitive advantages.