Working with manufacturers to improve your performance, reduce your costs and drive your competitiveness

What we do?

AS Compete works with manufacturers, delivering the improvements in performance required to ensure customer satisfaction, then building the levels of competitiveness required to win future work.

Issues and opportunities are identified across the organisation, both in operations and wider business functions, that are impacting quality, delivery and cost performance, preventing the achievement of future strategic goals.

Improvement programmes are implemented, designed to fit each unique business context, that both drive results and develop the capabilities of the team.

Why use AS Compete?

  • Expert rapid assessment, ensuring activities drive tangible, strategic benefit.
  • Techniques blended pragmatically in a way that fits your business, not dogmatic delivery of improvement tools.
  • A breadth of improvement capability that enables impact across the business.
  • Comfortable working at all levels to establish engagement and ownership of activities.
  • Focussed on developing your team through ‘learn by doing’, not classroom training they can’t implement.
  • Providing expert delivery, cost effectively, recognising the competing financial needs of your business.

Which sectors do we support?

With over 24 years consulting experience, we have an understanding of the varied challenges experienced across a wide variety of sectors.

Past sector experiences cover automotive and off-road vehicles, aerospace and defence, construction, building products, medical and pharma, consumer goods, power generation equipment, chemical and industrial product processing, food and beverage production, electrical component assembly, MRO and service industries.

We recognise that there is far more to business performance than just manufacturing activities, we have experience across strategy and policy deployment, business organisation, demand planning and management, procurement and supply, new product introduction, marketing, maintenance, call centre and other supporting functions.

How can we support you?

All activities start with a free of charge discussion to better understand your business challenges and discuss how we may be able to support.

Where appropriate we will visit on site, ensuring we fully understand your challenges, working with you to develop an approach that best meets the needs of your unique business.

If we don’t think we are the right provider for your needs we will be honest and say so.

To discuss further, please get in touch either through our contact form or by phone, we look forward to talking to you.