Driving Sustainable Transformation

Operational Excellence

When you work with GP's Operational Excellence Practice team, you can expect to realize rapid return on your investment through improved quality, shortened lead time, lowered costs, and increased revenue. While many consultants offer similar words, you can expect real action from us. Using our robust approach, we energize your organization's performance with hands-on involvement from our seasoned team, and help you develop a culture of waste elimination, variability reduction, and innovation that will endure as your organization continues to grow.

Our Operational Excellence Practice team provides consultation, knowledge transfer, and implementation in the following four disciplines:

GP's Approach to Operational Excellence

• Lean Shop Floor Systems
• Lean Six Sigma
• Reliability Excellence
• Supplier Development

We apply Lean, Six Sigma, and Equipment Reliability System/Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) principles throughout our four focused disciplines to help you achieve your goals rapidly. What sets GP apart from other operational excellence consultants is our drive to establish two critical systems that reinforce all your continuous improvement efforts:

• Goal Deployment (hoshin)—focusing resources on a few quantum-leap objectives
• Daily Management—ensuring consistent process performance and fostering continuous improvement

Why GP for Your Operational Excellence Needs?

In working with GP, your organization works with an experienced team that specializes in developing and implementing client-specific business and production systems founded upon the Toyota Production System. Your employees gain from our hands-on, learning-by-doing approach, specifically tailored to your needs. Your organization achieves dramatic bottom-line results.

GP's Operational Excellence Practice was founded in 1978 as Deltapoint Corporation, an early leader in bringing Total Quality Management, Total Productive Maintenance, and the Toyota Production System to North America. GP acquired Deltapoint in 1998, adding valuable Six Sigma and Equipment Reliability expertise to the cache of offerings. Today, we help leading organizations across diverse industries learn how to optimize their people, processes, and technology to compete in a global marketplace.

We provide our clients with the best methods for achieving operational excellence. We develop these methods based on knowledge gained from leading over 70 benchmarking missions to world-class companies, research from leading academics, and our own substantial business experience.