1. Machan Consulting Ltd
helps you deliver creative operational solutions
Drawing on extensive experience in the process industries particularly the food and healthcare sectors, we provide a focused client service to arrive at solutions to a variety of key business challenges including:
- Bringing to you the experience of being the named responsible person for production on multiple MHRA Licenses
- Continuous improvement to your supply chain design to differentiate your product offering in the market place
- Challenging working practices particularly to fight far east competition
- Supporting you in thinking strategically to maximise your operations
- Improving new product development processes in regulated sectors
- Providing access to top quality procurement skills and strategies
- Supporting CSR procurement policy design and implementation
- ERP/S & OP Process design and development.
2. Clients
2.1 Testimonials
a "The contribution by Machan Consulting was key to the timely conclusion of this work"
Vice President top 10 global Healthcare Company
b "We retained the services of Machan Consulting Limited in 2008 to review the efficiency and scalability of our production capabilities, these led to very specific recommendations for process improvement. I would be happy to recommend Ian Machan to any organisation that needed a thorough independent review of its production or supply chain management"
CEO UK award winning Company
c "Ian has provided project management, change and technical/process expertise to successfully facilitate the design and implementation of a global end to end product development and delivery process. The appointment of Machan Consulting was fundamental to the project’s success"
Head of Programme and Change Management, Major Global Consumer Healthcare company
d "Ian was prepared to be challenging, good listener and very quick on the uptake. Understands the fundamentals of my business sector. Hardworking with an intensive work rate; as a customer you get a real sense that Ian wants to provide value for money"
Site Team, UK Manufacturing Site
2.2 Benefits delivered to the following clients
- Lloyds Development Capital
- Astrazeneca
- 3M
- Balkanpharma
- SSL International
- Pharmaco
- Smith & Nephew
- Cranfield University
- Lear Inc.
- Bristol Myers-Squibb
- Austin Company
- Alizyme
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
2.3 Global Turnover of Companies worked for (£M)
3. Healthcare
A little inspection…
- 9
There are 9 different types of License available to apply for from the MHRA
- 244
Since October 2001 there have been 244 Drug alerts issued in the UK
- 36
In the first four months of 2011 there have been 36 Medical Device alerts
- 16
In 2010, the Manufacturing Division of the FDA issued 16 Warning letters to Companies
- 100
In March 2011 the MHRA issued it's 100th traditional Herbal registration
- 164
The EMEA received 164 applications for orphan designation in 2009
- 175
In 2009/10 the EMEA carried out 175 GMP inspections
- 658
The MHRA carried out 658 GMP Inspections, 762 GDP inspections in 2009/10
- 43.8%
For devices in 2009/10, 43.8% of UK Adverse Incident reports were due to manufacturing.
- 461
In 2009 there were 461 enterprises in the UK manufacturing Pharmaceuticals
4. Food
Something to chew over…
In the UK in 2009 there were...
6287 enterprises manufacturing Food
936 enterprises manufacturing Beverages
The food and drink manufacturing industry is the single largest manufacturing sector in the UK with a turnover of £72.3bn, with a gross value added of £20.0bn, accounting for 15% of the total manufacturing sector.
£1bn ⇒ 1500
Our sector invests over £1bn in to R&D each year enabling over 1,500 products to be launched every quarter.
UK Rules
The Food industry has increased the productivity of its labour force over the last 10 years by over 50% leaving food and drink workers in the UK 70% more productive than the EU average.
53% :-)
According to the FSA 53% of food businesses visited were fully compliant with food safety management requirements and 86% of food businesses were broadly compliant.
186 :-(
In 2009/10 the FSA issued 186 Hygiene improvement notices, 73 remedial action notices, and 1997 informal written warnings.
The industry employs up to 400,000 workers
5. Operational Excellence
Skilled and experienced in all techniques
Lean
Agile
Six Sigma
Quick Customer response
TQM
Process re-engineering
Machan Consulting has experience in all of the techniques, but focuses on applying the right ones to match your business need. Don't choose a theory; apply the practices that will work for you.
Some of the countries I have worked/consulted in
6. Blog
Latest from the Machan Consulting Blog
Organisational Linkages
What do the following all have in common?
o Multi-level, treacle like, hierarchical organisations
o The common “ procedures will be updated, re-training carried out” statement when there is a mis-selling or service level scandal
o Buying and selling Structured Debt vehicles that you don’t understand
o And possibly, the extensive earnings multiple between the highest and lowest employees
They are examples of linkages throughout a company getting stretched to, or beyond, breaking point. Not dissimilar to the “chain of command”, it also encompasses the values and principles that should govern an organisation at all levels.
When some common sense value needs re-stating in a training session, such as “ don’t sell inappropriate insurance” or “ don’t forge signatures” (a misdemeanour more serious in my field of Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices than even the Financial or Utility switching sectors), the linkage between the principles of the business and its employees is broken.
So what should be done about it? Pre-emptive actions could include:
o Meaningful self-audit programmes
o A Whistle blowing policy that encourages the declaration of broken links
o Audit by external people, with no vested interest in hiding the breaks.
More important are senior people, leaders, making clear by their words and their deeds what is important in an organisation, re-enforcing the links, re-enforcing the right behaviours, rather than fixing them after the breaks are discovered.
An old boss of mine, senior and removed from day-to-day Production, used to walk a part of the Factory floor where he was responsible every morning for 15 minutes before starting his day’s work. Over a number of weeks he covered his whole patch. Walking round he commented on tidiness, organisation, and attitudes. Everything that he saw that did, or didn’t meet his view of the world, received a comment to those present and the supervisor or team leader. He may have been right or wrong, but everyone knew what was expected of them.
He took the time, and demonstrated by his actions. Linkage wasn’t a problem there.
Leicester Tigers and Business Basics
My last blog on consulting skills and basketball was the most successful yet, so to continue the theme read on about Rugby, Leicester Tigers and Business basics.Success in a game of Rugby depends on many factors, but before flair and clever hands, you have to get the basics and especially the set pieces right: Scrums, line outs, Re-starts, goal kicking.I support Leicester Tigers, my local East Midlands Premier Rugby Team. When I visit Welford Road, the site of our home ground, the knowledgeable fans appreciate it when the Team get their set pieces right!Well it occurred to me that there are some business basics and Set pieces that you need to have under your belt to be effective in a general business environment. Here is a list to start with, let me know your additions please:- Running effective meetings
- Constructing a Project Gannt
- A successful Routine to keep up to date with emails, voicemail, texts etc.
- Able to write Capital investment proposals
- Planning your time with a calendar
- Write a one page précis of almost anything for exec. Review.
Yours?Consulting Tools, Skills and Basketball
It occurred to me recently that when Consultants list out the tools that they use, or unfortunately the only tool that they use (thinking everything looks like a nail when you only have a hammer..), that Skills should have greater profile.
The real key to whether you can use a tool is when the pressure is on, the client has an urgent or critical problem, the room is lost, the way forward unclear. The ability to deploy a tool or technique in a training situation bears no relation to that test.Which brings me to basketball. Years ago when my children were young, I attended the annual Parents/Award Giving at my son's Basketball club. As the parents gathered on benches at the back of the gym, a tall stately, elderly gentleman walked in with his grandson. After the coach had presented awards and reviewed the year, the guest speaker was revealed. You guessed it, the Granddad.He was an ex England national player from the '50's. He spoke eloquently about the need for the kids to practise their basic skills, until they could ALWAYS make that shot in the dying seconds of a match. As he said all this he had in his hands a basketball. He had done nothing with it throughout his time in the gym, but as he closed his speech, he said" You have to know you can make the shot", and as he said it threw a shot to a Basket, 5 metres away...Now if he had fluffed that shot, his speech was a disaster, but of course he didn't...Can we always use our tools, techniques and personal interventions with that sort of skill? Thats what the client wants... skills not just tools.Happy Christmas!
8. LinkedIn
Ian Machan
- Management and Business Consultant
- Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Industry: Management Consulting
9. Contact
By Post:
1 Belvedere Close
Keyworth
Nottingham
United Kingdom
NG12 5JF
By Telephone:
+44 (0)7780 646142
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