Zero Defects case study featured in national newspaper

On 8th June 2010 a report on Lean & Six Sigma in The Times newspaper included an article about how S A Partners helped Allergy Therapeutics to implement a zero-defects approach.  Ray Keeling, Head of Supply Operations, outlined how 25% of his staff had been trained in problem solving techniques, enabling them to get to the root causes of problems and become more self sufficient in their continuous improvement journey.

To view the article on the Raconteur Media website click here.  To read the full case study of what was achieved at Allergy Therapeutics click here.

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In this Spring 2010 edition of Source:

Lean Learning - Gary Griffiths shares what he has learned from working with corporate clients over many years to establish internal Lean Learning programmes and the impact they can have when done well.

Treating the root cause - we find out how Lean problem solving techniques had a dramatic impact on the bottom line at Allergy Therapeutics

Zero Defects - we look at the elements of the Lean toolkit that can help you work towards a zero defects culture.

Ready for the upturn? - is your business in the right shape to maximise the opportunities from the economic upturn when it comes?

 
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January 2010 - S A Partners launches Ireland business

S A Partners has announced a new business in Ireland (S A Partners Lean Consultancy Ltd).  We have been working for some time with Irish businesses including C&C Group – producers of Magners cider – which appointed S A Partners to help it not only to implement Lean principles, but also to develop a skilled internal resource that could sustain and build on the improvements made.

C&C’s IT & Continuous Improvement Director, Shane Hughes commented: “S A Partners has provided leadership and technical skills that have helped us to embrace and sustain a Lean approach to doing business. We work with them as strategic partners, not consultants, and this subtle difference is the key value they add to an organisation.”

Director of S A Partners Ireland, Chris Butterworth commented: “We have a distinctive offering that goes beyond our consulting expertise. S A Partners has access to the latest academic research on Lean and offers learning programmes that enable our clients to take ownership of their continuous improvement going forward. We hope that by establishing a local Irish business we can develop close relationships with our Irish clients.”

January 2010 - New alliances announced

S A Partners has extended its offering by forming new alliances with MA Consulting and the Leading Edge Group.

MA Consulting supports organisations to optimise business processes, unlock funding potential, open new markets and grow sales, implement change and solve people or operational issues.  This is delivered by a specialist team working through a unique ‘virtual’ business model.  The alliance between S A Partners and MA Consulting will see the two consultancies working together in particular to support struggling businesses back to a position of stability, profitability and growth.

The Leading Edge Group is a provider of flexible online Lean Thinking education and training programmes.  These enable organisations to support their implementation of a Lean philosophy, and to better ensure that benefits are sustained, by developing Lean skills at every level of their human resource.  Programmes are accredited by strategic partners including University College Cork, The Institute of Industrial Engineers (Ireland and US) and the Logistics Institute (Canada).