Automotive Parts Manufacturing
Markdom Plastics
Client Overview:
Markdom Plastics, a plastics injection moulding company in the automotive parts
manufacturing industry, is now a proven leader of "Just In Time" manufacturers.
The challenge:
expanding business more than 400% in the same "limited" space with the ability
to compete on Quality, JIT manufacture, JIT delivery, minimum or no warehousing,
reduce operating costs, manage people, increase customer satisfaction while
competing on price and more.
The Solution
By designing, optimizing, implementing &
maintaining a closely integrated system for the entire operations with
integrations with accounting & EDI, Markdom Plastic Products Ltd. achieved
all the objectives and is now one of the award winning suppliers to GM, Ford,
TRW automotives and more.
They achieved significant improvements in their businesses processes, on-time
purchasing, manufacturing, deliveries; productivity gains in the order entry
process; eliminating returns; increasing inventory turns (with significant drop
in on-hand inventory); a steady decrease in labour costs; and a dramatic
increase in new business efficiency and bookings with closed sales.