Results

Companies that use Goldratt UK get measurable results!

We have a strong track record in helping organisations achieve significant growth in capacity and substantial improvements to on-time, in-full delivery performance.

We work with an enormous range of clients

We bring a wealth of experience

We help clients get results quickly

Our strategies enable you to accelerate the adoption of Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints (TOC) and TOC applications like Drum-Buffer-Rope and Critical Chain so you can compete more strongly and grow more rapidly.

  • Improve delivery performance to 99%
  • Increase sales by 20%
  • Double profitability
  • Turn 50% of inventory into cash
  • Boost capacity by 30-50%
  • Cut lead times by up to 75%
  • Drive internal costs down 15-20%
Product Operations Project Management Business Transformation
Product Operations

APS UK

Plastic Bag Manufacturer

Industry type: manufacturing

  • No ordering capacity
  • £1m needed to boost capacity
  • £15m in sales
  • 40% more capacity
  • No machinery investment needed
  • £35m in sales

Cooper Crouse Hinds

Metal enclosures manufacturer

Industry type: manufacturing

  • 8-week lead time
  • £400k in overdue orders
  • 40% on-time delivery
  • £4.5m in sales
  • Zero profit
  • 2-week lead time
  • No overdue orders
  • 98% on-time delivery
  • £10m in sales
  • £1.2m profit

Doncasters Blaenavon

Forging manufacturer

Industry type: manufacturing

  • 40% on-time delivery
  • 55-day lead time
  • £4m arrears; £6m WIP
  • £50m in sales
  • 85% on-time delivery
  • 25-day lead time
  • £100k arrears; £2m WIP
  • £55m in sales

Servomex

Gas analysis instruments vendor

Industry type: electronics

  • Delivery performance 60%
  • Vendor performance 80%
  • Lead time 12-16 weeks
  • Overdue orders £500k
  • Sales £20m
  • Delivery performance > 90%
  • Vendor performance > 95%
  • Lead time 3-4 weeks
  • No overdue orders
  • Sales over £90m

Solocup Europe

Cup manufacturer and distributor

Industry type: manufacturing

  • 6-week lead time
  • £6m in inventory
  • Inventory turns 8
  • 97% availability
  • 1-week lead time
  • £4m in inventory
  • Inventory turns 12
  • 99.97% availability

John Smedley

Clothing manufacturer

Industry type: manufacturing

  • 8-week lead time
  • 60% on-time delivery
  • Inventory £5m
  • 3-week lead time
  • 98% on-time delivery
  • £3m in inventory

Johnson Matthey

Petro-chemical manufacturer

Industry type: manufacturing

  • 45-tonne 9-week rolling average output
  • 75% constraint utilisation
  • 58-tonne 9-week rolling average output
  • 92% constraint utilisation
  • No investment needed to boost capacity

Camvac

Food packaging

Industry type: manufacturing

  • 939 tonne of stock
  • 89% on-time delivery
  • 592 tonnes of Stock (37% reduction)
  • 97% on-time delivery

Belos

Power generation manufacturer

Industry type: manufacturing

  • 45-day lead time
  • On-time delivery under 20%
  • £5m Pln working capital
  • 15-day lead time
  • 100% on-time delivery
  • £2.6m Pln working capital
  • 25% more sales

PLP UK

Power generation manufacturer

Industry type: manufacturing

  • On-time delivery under 40%
  • 25-day lead time
  • 99% on-time delivery
  • 15-day lead time
  • 9m Euro Working capital

Inventi

Electronics manufacturer

Industry type: manufacturing

  • On-time delivery under 50%
  • 17-day lead time
  • 13m Euro working capital
  • On-time delivery greater than 90%
  • 10-day lead time
  • 9m Euro Working capital

Power Panels

Electrical manufacturer

Industry type: manufacturing

  • 100 WIP contracts
  • Kitting shortages over 10%
  • On-time delivery under 70%
  • 50 WIP contracts
  • No kitting shortages
  • On-time delivery over 95%

Brian James Trailers

Trailer manufacturer

Industry type: manufacturing

  • 30 trailers late
  • 50% trailers completed first time on-line
  • 60% on-time delivery
  • 15-day lead time
  • Producing 10 trailers a day
  • £10.6m in sales
  • No trailers late
  • 80% trailers completed first time on-line
  • 80% on-time delivery
  • 10-day lead time
  • Producing 15 trailers a day
  • £13.7m in sales

Eltherington

Windows and caravan fabricator

Industry type: manufacturing

  • 80% on-time delivery
  • £15m in sales
  • 92% on-time delivery
  • £16m in sales

Lapp

Insulator manufacturer

Industry type: manufacturing

  • 80% on-time delivery
  • Zero NPI on-time
  • 10-week lead time
  • 98% on-time delivery
  • 100% projects on-time
  • 3-day lead time

Printor

PCB Manufacturer

Industry type: manufacturing

  • 70% on-time delivery
  • 95% on-time delivery

Positive Solutions

Financial services provider

Industry type: financial services

  • £15m turnover
  • £2.8m gross profit
  • £25.6m turnover
  • £6.2m gross profit

APS USA

Plastic bag manufacturer

Industry type: manufacturing

  • 21-day lead time
  • 13-day lead time

Impress

Printer manufacturer

Industry type: manufacturing

  • 40% on-time delivery
  • 6-week lead time
  • Over 95% on-time delivery
  • 1-week lead timey
  • Inventory cut by 200k Euro

Tomplast

Injection moulder

Industry type: manufacturing

  • 95% on-time delivery
  • Inventory turns 5
  • Inventory 1.2m Euro
  • 99% on-time delivery
  • Inventory turns 28
  • Inventory 400k Euro

Tomplast

Injection moulder

Industry type: manufacturing

  • 95% on-time delivery
  • Inventory turns 5
  • Inventory 1.2m Euro
  • £8m in sales
  • £1m profit
  • 99% on-time delivery
  • Inventory turns 28
  • Inventory 400k Euro
  • £40m in sales
  • £8m profit

Unitplast

Injection moulder

Industry type: manufacturing

  • 9.5m Euro in sales
  • 75% on-time delivery
  • Inventory turns 8.5
  • 18m Euro in sales
  • 99% on-time delivery
  • Inventory turns 28

School Trends

School uniform manufacturer

Industry type: fashion and textiles

  • 95% on-time delivery
  • 4-week lead time
  • 99% on-time delivery
  • 2-week lead time

Carter Retail Equipment

Refrigeration equipment

Industry type: manufacturing

  • Under 10% on-time delivery
  • £1m extra install costs
  • £3m outsourcing
  • £4.5m inventory
  • 12-week lead time
  • Over 95% on-time delivery
  • Under £100k extra install costs
  • £1m outsourcing
  • £3m inventory
  • 3-week lead time

RailCare Operations

MIRO

Industry type: transportation

  • 50% on-time delivery
  • 1% return on sales
  • 99% on-time delivery
  • 8.3% return on sales

Lanvin

Clothing manufacturer

Industry type: fashion and textiles

  • 10% delivery at season start
  • 50% delivery 4 weeks into season
  • 8.8% undelivered
  • 40% delivery at season start
  • 80% delivery 4 weeks into season
  • 1% undelivered

Cathleco

Marine pipework manufacturer

Industry type: manufacturing

  • 80% on-time delivery
  • 7-day lead time
  • £2m inventory
  • 98% on-time delivery
  • 3-day lead time
  • £600k inventory

Waterjet

Component supplier

Industry type: manufacturing

  • Under 60% on-time delivery
  • 7 to 10-day lead time
  • 99% on-time delivery
  • 4-day lead time

Slack and Parr

Pump manufacturer

Industry type: manufacturing

  • 55% on-time delivery
  • £600k arrears
  • 90% on-time delivery
  • £95k arrears
  • 10% more sales
  • Working capital cut by £150k

Blanket Bar

Mining and metals

Industry type: mining

  • 75% on-time delivery
  • 3-day (or even weeks) lead time
  • Frequent stock outs
  • Overdue orders
  • 100% on-time delivery
  • 3-hour lead time
  • No stock outs
  • No overdue orders

ABRO

Military vehicle MRO

Industry type: defence

  • 81-day lead time
  • £1.6m inventory
  • 60-day lead time
  • £300k inventory

Glassline

Glass manufacturer

Industry type: manufacturing

  • Under 80% on-time delivery
  • 5-day lead time
  • 98% on-time delivery
  • 3-day lead time
  • Doubled capacity

Queensberry Shelters

Shelter manufacturer

Industry type: manufacturing

  • 75% on-time delivery
  • 6-week lead time
  • 95% on-time delivery
  • 4-week lead time

Roscomac

Sub-contract precision machining

Industry type: manufacturing

  • 40% on-time delivery
  • 95% on-time delivery
  • Working capital cut by £500k

Corin

Medical product manufacturer

Industry type: health

  • 50% on-time delivery
  • 100% on-time delivery
  • Lead-time cut in half

JBS Lees

Cold-rolled steel manufacturer

Industry type: manufacturing

  • Under 45% on-time delivery
  • Stock turns 2
  • Over 70% on-time delivery
  • Stock turns 3
  • 20% more sales
  • 50% more SKUs

VCL

High-precision engineering

Industry type: manufacturing

  • £6m working capital
  • £3m working capital
  • £4m more sales (up 12%)
  • Lead time cut in half

Ricardo

Specialist manufacturer

Industry type: manufacturing

  • 1,500-hour constraint queue
  • 330 hours/week constraint output
  • Average 97 days at sub-con
  • Under 20% on-time delivery
  • 170-hour constraint queue
  • 480 hours/week constraint output
  • Average 14 days at sub-con
  • Over 75% on-time delivery

Lemac

Motor and gearbox manufacturer

Industry type: automotive and transport

  • 60% on-time delivery
  • 16-week lead time
  • 85% on-time delivery
  • 8-week lead time
  • 35% more sales
  • £1.5m brought in-house

PPD

Global clinical research

Industry type: health

  • Under 10% pre-dosing on-time delivery
  • $430m revenue
  • $65m profit
  • 65% pre-dosing on-time delivery
  • $1.2b revenue
  • $150m profit
  • Lead time cut by 30%

Seagate

Disc manufacturer

Industry type: information technology

  • 90,000 per day output
  • 200,000 per day output

Bombardier

Nacelle vehicle

Industry type: aviation

  • 60% on-time delivery
  • 55 to 75-day lead time
  • WIP 18 nacelle units
  • £1.5m per month throughput
  • £54m in sales
  • 100% on-time delivery
  • 35-day lead time
  • WIP 5 nacelle units
  • £4m per month throughput
  • £120m in sales

Ashfield

Stone manufacturer and supplier

Industry type: construction

  • £1.8m in sales
  • Zero profit
  • £4m in sales
  • £600k profit
Project Management

BT Radianz

Financial information

Industry type: financial services

  • Under 10% on-time delivery
  • Zero projects finished to full scope
  • 90% on-time delivery to full scope
  • All projects completed

Slinger & Friedlander

Bank

Industry type: financial services

  • Under 20% on-time delivery to full scope
  • 90% on-time delivery to full scope
  • Lead time cut in half

Biwater

M&E Construction

Industry type: construction

  • Under 25% on-time delivery to spec and budget
  • 95% on-time delivery to spec and budget
  • 15% shorter lead times
  • 10% less cost

NATS

Air traffic

Industry type: aviation

  • 100% on-time delivery
  • 100% on-time delivery
  • 20% shorter lead times
  • £3m under-budget

Bespak

Medical device manufacturer

Industry type: health

  • 22-month project duration
  • 20% on-time delivery
  • 17-month project duration
  • Over 85% on-time delivery

Johnston Sweepers

Road sweeper manufacturer

Industry type: aviation

  • Under 20% on-time delivery
  • Over 5-year project lead time
  • 100% on-time delivery
  • Under 4-year project lead time

PRA

Global Clinical Research

Industry type: health

  • 70% on-time delivery
  • 85% on-time delivery

Siemens Gas Turbines

Turbine manufacturer

Industry type: health

  • Scope creep
  • 8 projects finished per year
  • Project years late
  • No project on time
  • No projects on budget
  • 80% of projects done on time to budget
  • Over 20 projects finished per year
  • Projects less than 2 weeks late
  • Project WIP cut by 75%

Eurotherm

Instrument manufacturer

Industry type: manufacturing

  • Little project visibility
  • Scope creep
  • No projects delivered on time
  • Project visibility and focus to maintain progress
  • 90% on-time delivery to full scope

CFH

Print and mail specialist

Industry type: manufacturing

  • IT project late
  • Long lead times
  • High number of WIP tasks
  • IT projects on time
  • Shorter lead times
  • WIP managed and Full Kit in place

Honeywell

Home heating

Industry type: manufacturing

  • Under 20% on-time delivery to full scope
  • 75% on-time delivery to full scope
  • 25% shorter lead times

Megger Instruments

Instrument design and manufacturing

Industry type: manufacturing

  • Zero on-time delivery to scope
  • Projects years late
  • 90% on-time delivery to scope
  • Projects days late

Officescape

Fit-out installation

Industry type: construction

  • Under 75% on-time delivery
  • 100% on-time delivery

Tenon/Wallace

Instrument design and manufacture

Industry type: manufacturing

  • 50% on-time delivery
  • Zero projects on time
  • £4m in sales
  • 95% on-time delivery
  • 90% of projects on time
  • £5m in sales

Dolphin

Washroom manufacturer and installer

Industry type: construction

  • £9m in sales
  • £1m profit
  • Zero projects on time
  • £12m in sales
  • £1.6m profit
  • 100% projects on time
Business Transformation

HV Wooding

Busbar and pressed parts manufacturer

Industry type: manufacturing

  • 8-week lead time
  • 70% on-time delivery
  • No capacity to take more sales
  • 1-week lead time
  • 99% on-time delivery
  • 40% more capacity
  • 20% more profit

Ben Whistler

Furniture manufacturer

Industry type: manufacturing

  • 8-week lead time
  • 95% on-time delivery
  • No additional capacity
  • £700k in sales
  • 2-week lead time
  • Over 95% on-time delivery
  • Capacity doubled
  • £15m in sales

BA Systems

Balustrade and balcony manufacturers

Industry type: housing and construction

  • 16-week lead time
  • £3m in sales
  • £250k profit
  • 6 to 8-week lead time
  • £6m in sales
  • £1m profit