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Weathervane Consulting delivers in-depth discovery, diagnostic, design and implementation services, which result in sustainable operational and financial improvements, and consistently predictable outcomes.
We are a multifaceted operations management consulting company with a diverse repertoire of skills to match your needs.
Using a “three-pronged” approach, we analyse current situation in its entirety, and jointly with you we create bespoke, long-term solutions for your company.
Weathervane has field experience in the following sectors:
- Mining & Minerals
- Manufacturing & Engineering
- Oil & Gas
- Retail
- Telecommunications
- Financial Services
- Health Care
- Government
Within these sectors, Weathervane has covered a number of different operational disciplines, driving performance, productivity and profitability improvements, through its needs-based operational improvement approach. Some of these disciplines include:
- Production & Lean Manufacturing
- Warehousing, Distribution and Procurement
- Maintenance & Engineering
- Logistics
- Open-cast and underground mining
- Minerals processing
- Marketing & Sales
- Organisational Design and effectiveness
- Change management and Behavioural Change
Some of the needs addressed in the natural resources sector have included: fragmentation in drilling a blasting operations, cycle times, recovery increases in chemical and metals plants, soluble loss reduction, yield improvements, underground transport improvements, mechanical availability improvements including shovel rebuilds and plant shutdowns, change overs using SMED principles, working capital improvements, warehouse management, inventory reduction, controlling procurement spend, utilisation improvements, variability reduction, organisational design, contractor management, OEE improvements, lost time reduction, situational awareness in behaviour based safe operations, execution on business strategy, leadership development and behaviour modelling.
In the manufacturing and heavy industries, maintenance and engineering sectors the focus areas have been: Productivity, efficiency and throughput improvements; yield and recovery improvements; Process optimisation; Mechanical availability improvements; Lost Time (Waste) reduction; Engineering and maintenance improvements, including availability, preventative maintenance schedule attainment, MTBF, MTTR; Lean manufacturing, including Kanban and Six Sigma; Supply chain optimisation, including JIT operations, inventory control, procurement spend focus and logistics optimisation; Working capital optimisation, including raw material, finished goods and work in progress (WIP) reduction; Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) improvements; On time project delivery; Safety improvements, focussing on behaviour based safety; Quality improvements; reporting; Behaviour Modelling, including walk-the-floor plans, designing the perfect day, First Line Management (FLM) effectiveness programmes, Training & Coaching programmes; Organisational Effectiveness programmes, including Organisational Design, Levels of work, Requisite Organisation and Management Accountability Hierarchy work, Daily Schedule Control, Short Interval Control (SIC) and management.
In the financial services, retail and health care sectors some of the focus areas have been: Revenue enhancement, including sales skills and management programmes; Back office efficiency and productivity; Lost time (Waste) reduction; First point of contact effectiveness and efficiency; Unit cost reduction; Working Capital optimisation, including account receivables and account payables; Customer satisfaction; Telemarketing and Call Centre improvements; Supervisory effectiveness; Inventory management, procurement and logistics; Behaviour modelling.