Zookbinders Inc. Custom Bookbinder www.zookbinders.com
Challenge: Excessive delivery lead times and labor costs.
Process: Facilitated the design of a new lean production layout that reduced batch sizes and movement, implemented quality control methods, and communication processes.
Result: $500K net income increase on same volume and lower pricing within first year.
Experience: “Cadent Resources, Inc. was quick to identify our bottlenecks and showed us how important ‘metrics’ are as a building block of problem solving – we have since gone from 4-5 week turnaround to 1 week turnaround”
Mark Zucker, President