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Where is your business losing money: purchasing, launches or deliveries?

15 short questions. See which of three areas needs attention first, and what you can do about it yourself.

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Who it is for

Owner-managed manufacturers with roughly 20 to 70 people.

Owners, managing directors and operations leaders who want a straight view of where to look first.

Free and confidential. Your answers stay in your browser: nothing is sent or stored.

What you get
  • A score for purchasing cost, launch readiness and delivery reliability.
  • The area to look at first, with three things you can do yourself now.
  • The option to go through your results with us, if you want to.

Your situation

Three questions about your company first, then 15 questions, most of them answered with yes, no or not sure. If nothing new is coming, the launch questions are skipped.

How many people work in your company?
What is closest to what is on your mind right now?
Is a new product, a new customer or a clearly bigger series coming in the next 12 months?

Purchasing cost

Do you know what makes up the price of your top 10 purchased parts: material, processing, transport?
When suppliers last raised their prices, did you check the increase against an index or a cost breakdown before accepting it?
Have you asked for competing quotes on your biggest-spend parts in the last two years?
For parts you can buy from only one supplier, do you have a back-up plan?

Launch readiness

For the next new product, customer or series, is there a written plan with dates for parts, tooling, first series and customer approval?
Have your key suppliers confirmed that they can deliver the series volume on time, not just the first samples?
Are tooling, test equipment, work instructions and training checked before the first series build, rather than during it?
Do you know exactly what quality evidence the customer expects before they accept series parts?

Delivery reliability

Do you know last month's on-time delivery percentage without asking anyone to calculate it?
When an order is late, is the cause recorded (material, machine, people, engineering, planning) rather than just explained?
Are the delivery dates you promise customers based on available capacity and material, not only on what the customer asks for?
Does someone go through late orders and their causes every week, and assign actions with a name and a date?

Foundations

After a job is finished, do you compare the actual time and material used with what you quoted?
Do new products, customer projects and improvement projects each have one named owner, a written plan and a regular review?
If you (the owner) were away for two weeks, would planning and deliveries run without calls to you?