Cut the NPI cycle from 21 to 12 weeks with zero variation, taking the site from two products to five and into a global Centre of Excellence.
Biopharma (Johnson & Johnson / Janssen Biologics, Ringaskiddy) via Life Science Associates
Your systems of record can't make the decision.
Kinetica Partners helps complex manufacturing and supply chain operations balance demand and supply under uncertainty.
Complexity is a decision problem, not a data problem.
Most solutions answer complexity with more visibility: another system, another dashboard, more data to feed the decision. Data-driven decision-making gets it the wrong way around. Start with the decisions, then define the data.
Kinetica builds the capability to make that stream of decisions well, and to keep making it well at scale. That takes consulting and technology built around your operation, not just software off the shelf. All grounded in a clear way of thinking. The conviction is the same: value is won or lost on the quality of those decisions, not on the systems that record them.
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Record
Relational, schema-bound data; the closed world of the ERP stack.
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Traces
Documents, emails, transcripts; the lossy externalisations people produce.
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People
Tacit knowledge and experience; worked with, not automated away.
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The mechanism
How the operation actually works: structure and cause together. The reality the record is not.
Results
Where building that capability changed the numbers. A sample, across biopharma, heavy industry and beyond.
Halved days of inventory across a central distribution centre and a 14-business-unit European network, during continuous acquisition-led growth and constant change in supply policy.
Global drinking-water systems providerA finite scheduling approach that balanced fast response against setup efficiency across five interdependent plants, and gave sales capable-to-promise confidence against constantly moving due dates.
Construction steel manufacturer (5 plants)The work runs through a small set of partnerships: SoPlenty, Cracking The Inventory Code, production-scheduling.com, and the Kinetica consulting practice. Different forms, one set of values, one conviction.
See the partnerships ->Start with the decision.
We take on a small number of partnerships where values and capability align. If that is the conversation you want to have, let's have it.
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