Cimes, the Lean Agility Web-company

Cimes (Continuous Improvement in Manufacturing towards Excellent Solutions) is a lean and agile one-person (Dr. Luc Chalmet) company interconnected with an extensive network web of capable free lance consultants as well as larger consulting companies, able to help larger organizations to achieve competitive and world-class performance, focusing on: 

• top-level coaching of management teams and project teams,
  
  
  • analysis of a company’s ‘lean agility’, expressed in the Company Mass Index CMI Lean Agility assessment, turning the results into a workable action plan and "go to gemba": implempent and change!
    
    
  • using 'Ambition and Action’ management workshop methodologies in the development of operational strategies, based on the unique and powerful Order Winner – Order Qualifier methodology
    
    
  • action planning for improved performance in global supply chain management: organization production, logistics, advanced planning, system selection (APS and ERP)
    
    
     

• promoting and implementing the double classification and analysis ABC-tool

  ABC-tool allows to obtain a quick and effective overview of the business, to focus on what is really important, to work with performance management based on homogenous groups, to address problems from a top-down approach. The results that can be expected with the use of ABC-tool are a balanced range of products, less working capital, a higher level of service on essential product segments, an optimization of the warehouse capacity, improvements of the supplier relationships, etc. The ABC-tool is very pragmatic and easy to implement.  It helps making it happen: saving costs, increase service levels and optimize the supply chain.