Kate Bailey
Kate has a track record of supporting and delivering improvements for multiple organisations in a wide range of sectors. Her extensive experience both within individual companies and across supply chains, enables her to provide technical and practical support and advice. She has particular expertise in integrating lean thinking and other best practise operation management practices (TOC, MRPII, Balanced scorecard etc).
Her main achievements include the implementation of a multi-site continuous improvement process which delivered significant improvements to on-time delivery, throughput and quality; a lean-based logistics system which enabled the company to increase revenue by 10% and the development of new purchasing processes to improve material availability and reduce site inventory by £1.7M (15%).
Kate’s great strength is her ability to diagnose issues, identify improvement areas and tailor lean principles and tools to develop company specific solutions. Through means of coaching, leadership and training, she is able to engage effectively with teams to support and drive results.
Kate provides lean and process improvement advice and support to a variety of clients and in a range of industries. Recent assignments include:
Improving sales order take-on and scheduling processes
Capacity planning (MRP)
Implementing a continuous improvement programme (multi-site)
Developing a policy deployment framework (multi-site)
Kanban and lean logistics systems
Establishing new warehouse and systems
Implementing visual management and control systems
Streamlining purchasing processes and inventory reduction
Mapping and improvement of end-to-end value streams