FAQs

Why should we consider getting help with our operation?

Any one of the following is a good reason to call Azimuth about opportunities to improve your operating results:

  • The operation is not showing continual improvement, month to month and year to year 
  • Profitability is below budget and could be much better
  • Material and labor variances are eroding margins
  • The Bank keeps asking for more information, more often
  • Physical inventories have high variances, actual to book
  • Customers are complaining about quality and delivery
  • WIP inventory is high; Cost of Quality is high
  • Staff members are always fighting fires
  • Major customers are demanding price reductions
  • New product introductions are challenging
  • Suppliers are not performing well with quality or delivery
  • Manufacturing isn't able to keep up with sales

Why use any outside help?

  • Known issues have not been rectified by internal resources
  • To bring a new objective perspective to the operational challenges
  • To find the true cause of continuing operational issues
  • The staff is simply too busy with day to day issues to effectively solve the problems
  • To eliminate all internal politics from analyzing issues and proposing solutions

Why select Azimuth?

  • Our widely diversified experience provides quick, accurate analysis and practical solutions
  • We are driven to provide a return on your investment in our services 
  • We have demonstrated results at other companies and references available
  • Our future business depends on referrals from clients like you

What do you expect to find on an assessment?

  • Everything that is impacting results.

What have you found on other assessments?

  • In very broad terms, we have found talented people, working very hard on many of the wrong things. We have found major process constraints, many shop floor communication issues impacting performance, total misunderstanding of management’s goals, corrective actions without root cause understanding, major issues with suppliers, major nonvalue-added tasks throughout operations, unresolved technical issues, just to name some generic categories. We’ll be happy  to review a detailed list of specific findings with you at our first meeting, maintaining, of course, the confidentially of the clients involved.