Lupin Ltd.

Lupin Ltd. - Building a world class lab

After adopting a replenishment model of distribution, this gen-set manufacturer ensured that the availability of spares at service points increased to 96% while overall inventory fell by 49%.

Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd (Spares And Services)

Vector’s unique solutions for auto OEMs and auto components manufacturers help them overcome constraints that hinder their organizational performance in new product development, manufacturing, distribution and sales.&nbsp;Over the years, Vector has worked with companies like Tata Motors – Commercial Vehicles (Spare Parts &amp; Services Division), Ashok Leyland, International Tractors Ltd. (Sonalika Tractors), Fleetguard Filters, JK Fenner (India) Ltd., TVS Motors and Royal Enfield to set new industry benchmarks in operational performance in different areas of business.

We offer consulting services to organizations engaged in manufacturing and distribution of automobiles or auto components. Our consulting methodology focuses on identifying the leverage point of an organization for intervention.

Auto OEMs & Auto Components Consulting Services

Auto OEMs, auto part manufacturers and auto aftermarket players constantly struggle with the auto industry's highly cyclical nature, i.e. an economic boom is generally accompanied by high sales, while sales usually suffer during economic downturns.

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Auto and Auto Components

Vector’s unique solutions for auto OEMs and auto components manufacturers help them overcome constraints that hinder their organizational performance in new product development, manufacturing, distribution and sales.&nbsp;&nbsp;Over the years, Vector has worked with companies like Tata Motors – Commercial Vehicles (Spare Parts &amp; Services Division), Ashok Leyland, International Tractors Ltd. (Sonalika Tractors), Fleetguard Filters, JK Fenner (India) Ltd., TVS Motors and Royal Enfield to set new industry benchmarks in operational performance in different areas of business.

KOEL adopted game-changing consumption-based operations, and they achieved 99% availability of engines at GOEMs and reduced the Order-to-Dispatch lead time of Gen-sets from 45 days to 7 days.

Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd. (KOEL)

Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd (PGBU) | Rapid engine delivery – Four weeks to one week

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Vector has developed bespoke solutions for equipment manufacturing or custom manufacturing companies to help them identify and address constraints in operations, sales, spares &amp; services, or new product development that limit consistent sales and profit growth.&nbsp;Working with companies like Laxmi Machine Works (LMW), Godrej Material Handling, RPG Raychem, Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd. Bajaj Electricals (Luminaries Division), amongst many others, Vector has helped clients bring about excellence in equipment delivery, turbo-charge their sales &amp; business development efforts and set new benchmarks in after-sales services.&nbsp;

An equipment manufacturing or custom manufacturing company’s ability to grow its sales and profits consistently is limited by constraints in the following areas like Operations, Sales, Spares and Services and New Product Development:

Consulting Services for Equipment Manufacturing Companies

Analyses of top custom manufacturing companies, including manufacturers of capital goods and custom manufacturers of machinery and equipment, which design a product and make to order, show that only a handful have realized healthy sales, profits & ROI in the last decade.

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Equipment Manufacturing

Skipper Pipes' strategic shift from volume-based to consumption-based inventory movement delivered strong results for this late entrant in the industry: A 38% Y-o-Y sales jump and a retailer network increase of 3X.

Skipper Pipes Ltd.

Skipper Pipes Ltd. | Building loyalty in markets with low product differentiation

Vector’s Consumer Goods &amp; Retail consulting practice offers expertise to consumer-packaged goods (CPG) companies involved in the distribution and retail of their products. These strategies help expand market range and reach, create market pull through influencers, and enhance overall supply chain and distribution efficiencies.&nbsp;With path-breaking solutions in Sales &amp; Distribution, New Product Development, Inventory Planning, and CRM programs, Vector has delivered significant business results for companies such as Bajaj Electricals (Consumer Products), VIP Industries Ltd., Godrej Interio, Polycab, Pidilite, Godrej Security Solutions, and many more.

Organizations producing, distributing, and making products available at retail points can be consumer goods companies or consumer packaged goods companies (CPG). Such companies could develop a constraint in areas like Internal Operations and Distribution, External Distribution, Sales Bandwidth, Retail Operations and New Product Development.

Consumer Goods & Retail Consulting Services

Much as they may wish otherwise, most Indian consumer good companies find that they have no consistent “Reach” into almost 65% of the country’s population (especially in rural, rur-ban areas) since they believe that this spread out population would be ‘cost inefficient’ to service.

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Consumer Goods & Retail

After a company-wide implementation of TOC, the company enjoyed a CAGR of 25% in the last ten years

Fleetguard Filters Pvt. Ltd.

Fleetguard Filters Pvt. Ltd. | Revamping operations

After a company-wide implementation of the pull based replenishment model, the company enjoyed a CAGR of 25% over 10 years.

Filtrum's tooling development lead times reduced by 25%, and on-time delivery improved to 90%.

Filtrum Tools

Tractor availability at 99%, inventory down by 25%, and production doubled with the implementation of 'pull'-based systems in operations.

International Tractors Ltd.

International Tractors | Improved productivity & reduced manufacturing lead time

International Tractors Ltd

JK Fenner transformed its operations by providing higher availability (>90%) of its products as well as faster and more reliable delivery (98%).

JK Fenner (India) Ltd

JK Fenner (India) Ltd. | Operational Excellence using 'Pull' Manufacturing

The company embraced a distribution revolution: Same-day order fill rate zoomed from 50% to 80%, and inventory reduced by 25%.

Lucas Indian Service Ltd.

Parag Foods implemented the 'Pull' distribution solution and achieved: 56% increase in average sales per day and a 200% jump in outlets billed.

Parag Milk Foods Ltd.

JK Files and Tools experienced a 30% increase in output from existing capacity in 6 months with the High-Velocity Custom Manufacturing solution.

JK Files and Tools

JK Files and Tools experienced a 30% increase in output from existing capacity in 6 months with the high velocity custom manufacturing solution.

The company put in place robust mechanisms to effectively manage its portfolio and its product mix in stores

Landmark

Using the Solution for Retail, Liberty Retail increased sales by 30% and reduced store inventory cover by 50%.

Liberty Retail Revolution Ltd.

Using the solution for retail, Liberty Retail increased sales by 30% and reduced store inventory cover by 50%.

Using High-Velocity Custom Manufacturing, this integrated textile company saw its OTIF increase to 90%, and profits go up by 55%

Pratibha Syntex Ltd

Pratibha Syntex Ltd | Transforming Textile & Garment Manufacturing Using TOC | Vector Consulting Group

Textile manufacturers, garment manufacturing firms or fashion garment retailers could develop a constraint in Operations, Sales, Retail operations or Sampling. Vector’s Textile &amp; Garments consulting practice offers unique solutions to help these organizations to overcome these constraints in in Operations, Sales, or Sampling management. The firm has collaborated with Blackberrys, Westside Retail, Arvind Fashions, and Raymond’s, among others, to enhance their On-Time-In-Full (OTIF) performance, ensure high availability at the retail store level, and reduce overall inventory and working capital deployed in the business. Some of these clients have set new industry benchmarks.

Companies in this domain are export houses which undertake garment manufacturing for large retailers as per fabric or garment designs given to them. They could also be fashion retailers who design, source and sell garments under their own brands in addition to selling other garment company brands. These two types of companies (textile manufacturers or fashion garment retailers) can develop a constraint in Operations, Sales, Retail operations or in Sampling.

Textile and Garments

Traditionally, India’s textile businesses enjoyed lower labor costs and significant government support (capital subsidy, duty drawbacks etc.) However, things have changed in recent years, and the industry is now losing its edge to countries such as Bangladesh and Vietnam! Find out how Indian companies can regain their superiority in the global markets

Textile & Garments

This textile company built a Decisive Competitive Edge with existing resources, they achieved: OTIF at 95%, production lead time down by 25% among other wins.

Raymond Luxury Cottons Ltd.

A leading global producer revolutionized their operations in just 8 months! Results: Month-end spikes eliminated, and on-time delivery up from 30% to 95%!

A major vertically integrated linen exporter

This leading electrical cable and wire company achieved remarkable speed in project execution by seamlessly aligning purchase/material delivery to site requirements: 66% faster PO completion, and delivery lead times slashed by 57%.

KEI Industries Ltd

Vector’s Engineering &amp; Construction consulting practice, offers tailored solutions for Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) companies, enabling them to identify and address constraints in project execution and operations that may hinder their sales growth and profitability.&nbsp;By implementing a unique Flow Management approach in its consulting assignments for construction projects, Vector has enabled clients such as Skipper Ltd., Bajaj Electricals (Engineering &amp; Projects Division), Godrej (Electricals &amp; Electronics Division), Tata BlueScope Steel Ltd., and KEI Industries Ltd. to complete projects ahead of schedule while increasing the number of projects executed within the company's allocated operating expenses.

An Engineering and Construction (EPC) company’s ability to grow and sustain sales and profits is limited by constraints in Project Management and Sales.

Consulting Services for Engineering and Construction Businesses

The growth of project organizations dealing with turnkey projects involving engineering, procurement and site construction has slowed down despite healthy demand because they operate in a highly uncertain environment (ROW issues, bureaucratic hurdles, etc.) Find out how companies can not only manage but also flourish in spite of these challenges.

Engineering & Construction

Defying the elements in a rain-ravaged location, using our Rapid Project Execution solution, the company fast-tracked the setting up of a new manufacturing plant in just 8 months against the industry norm of 12-14 months!

Fleetguard Filters

Defying the elements in a rain-ravaged location, using our rapid project execution solution, the company fast-tracked the setting up of a new manufacturing plant in just 8 months against the industry norm of 12-14 months!

Liberty's remarkable transformation with 'Pull' Manufacturing and Distribution! >97% availability at the central warehouse, probably the best in the business.

Liberty Shoes Ltd.

Liberty's remarkable transformation with 'pull' manufacturing and distribution! >97% availability at the central warehouse, probably the best in the business.

Using Rapid Project Execution solution, the company built a 30,000-spindle plant in just 9 months, smashing the 12-month industry benchmark.

Trident Group

Some results achieved by this office furniture major include:  OTIF jumped to 90%, lead times reduced by 30%, and a 30% jump in sales.

Godrej Interio - Office Furnitures

Jindal Stainless Ltd's strategic shift to 'Pull' manufacturing resulted in a 33% reduction in standard product lead times and a jump to >90% on-time delivery.

Jindal Stainless Ltd.

After streamlining operations, sales jumped by 50%, 100% on-time delivery was achieved, and inventory was down by 50%.

Filtrum Polymers Pvt. Ltd.

VIP achieved >90% stock availability at branches and a 20% boost in same-store growth.

VIP Industries Ltd.

VIP Industries Ltd. | De-stressing supply chain and sales with TOC | Vector Consulting Group

This electrical equipment company achieved these stunning results after the implementation of 'pull' solutions: 150% improvement in OTIF, >100% improvement in profits and ROCE.

Raychem RPG

This men's fashion retail company adopted an innovative Rapid Supply Chain model. Result: Daily availability of inventory at stores is now at 80%, and sales are up by 40%.

Blackberrys

Blackberrys | An innovative approach to apparel supply chain

MSP's steel plants achieved an incredible 98-99% OTIF and reduced dealer delivery times to just 48 hours, among other wins

MSP Steel

MSP Steel | Differentiating steel a commodity product using "pull" distribution

Using the Rapid R&D Solution, LMW improved the contribution of new products to sales by 3X.

LMW Machine Tool Division (MTD) - New Product Development

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Ajanta Pharma deployed a new dynamic pull-based scheduling approach in operations and supply chain and managed to release 15%-20% capacity and improve OTIF performance for their US warehouses to 99%.

Bahasa Ajanta Pharma Ltd.

Ajanta Pharma Ltd. | Agile pharma operations

Ajanta Pharma Ltd.

Vector’s pharmaceutical consulting practice offers solutions for organizations involved in pharmaceutical research &amp; development (R&amp;D), production, export, and distribution of medicines helping them address ongoing challenges or constraints in operations, R&amp;D, distribution, or the management of QC labs.&nbsp;Vector’s innovative solutions have helped Ajanta Pharma, Lupin, and Strides resolve their lab quality issues, reduce R&amp;D lead time and improve delivery performance while enhancing the productivity of resources.

Organisations working in the area of life sciences, especially those dealing with research, development, production, export or distribution of pharmaceutical drugs and formulations, can have an ongoing challenge or a constraint in Operations, Research & Development or in Distribution to International Warehouses.

Life Sciences

While the pharmaceutical industry faces many unique challenges, the fairly healthy gross margins this industry enjoys have made it possible for businesses to thrive during good times and remain viable even through tough times. However, with unprecedented and increasing competition, business complexity, velocity and volatility of markets, companies are now struggling with stressed supply chains, profit erosion, and continuously lowering returns.

It is a leading supplier of critical process equipment and systems to the global chemical and pharmaceutical industries

GMM Pfaudler Ltd.

ENPRO Industries enhanced their operations significantly after implementing Flow Management principles, boosting sales by 47% and achieving stable output, faster execution, and improved resource synchronisation.

ENPRO Industries

ENPRO Industries, a market leader in the design and manufacture of mechanical fluid systems and process equipment, faced significant challenges in their custom-engineered multi-project environment:  -Long and variable lead times -Resource & material synchronisation issues -Frequent rework and delays -Limited system visibility  So, how did ENPRO turn things around and achieve remarkable improvements in sales growth, output stabilisation, and inventory management?  Curious to know? Discover how ENPRO unlocked impressive results!

Revitalising the growth engine. Enpro– a leading Engineer-to-order (ETO) company

Revitalising the growth engine. Enpro - a leading Engineer-to-order (ETO) company

Protect ETO company’s profitability by increasing team productivity, reducing delivery lead time and improving delivery reliability.&nbsp;

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Solution helps resolve the conflict of often having to delay some orders while making some other orders before the customer requires it.

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Accelerating Engineered to Order Projects

Vector Consulting Group delivers precision engineering-to-order solutions for projects ensuring efficiency and alignment with specific business needs.

Custom Engineering-to-Order Solutions | Vector Consulting Group

JK Tyre supply chain boosted availability by 30%, OTIF to 90%, cut inventory days by 8%, and lowered detention costs by 21%, driving efficiency and growth.

JK Tyre & Industries Ltd.

Transforming consumption based supply chain for growth at JK Tyre

Use 'pull' based inventory optimisation to achieve near-perfect order fulfillment of products with demand forecasting and lean manufacturing to improve supply chain efficiency.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Solution helps resolve the dilemma of having to face poor availability in spite of having excess inventory at the plants and at points of sale.

Pull Based Supply Chain and Distribution

Enhance supply chain with Vector Consulting Group's innovative strategies optimizing distribution networks to drive business growth.

Supply Chain & Distribution Excellence | Vector Consulting Group

Mallcom India Ltd., a ₹450 Cr Personal Protective Equipment manufacturer, improves operational performance across garment, shoe, and glove sectors with Vector, boosting efficiency, sales, and customer satisfaction in domestic and export markets.

Mallcom India Ltd.

Breaking the bottleneck: Mallcom's shift to predictable, scalable operations

A leading manufacturing company optimised blast furnace shutdowns, reducing project timelines by 36%, enhancing resource productivity, minimising downtime, and achieving cost savings through improved project flow and management.

Kirloskar Ferrous Industries Ltd.

Accelerating shutdown projects with Flow Principles​

INEL, a ₹750 Crs. company, is a leading supplier of electrical and electronic sub systems for the Auto 2W industry, streamlined its operations with a global priority system, overcoming delays and increasing new product development by 35%, maintaining a market leadership in the auto industry

India Nippon Electricals Ltd.

Aditya Auto transformed supply chain operations, cut inventory days by 57%, improved cash flow, achieved 100% on-time delivery, and boosted productivity by up to 40%—without additional capital investment.

Aditya Auto - Operations

Transforming Operations: Excellence in delivery and working capital management

One of the largest generic drug manufacturers in the world, was facing a slow-down in their new product approvals. The high frequency of occurrences of OOS (out of specification- i.e. breach of drug testing parameter’s allowed upper/lower limit), especially invalid OOS (breach not due to the drug itself but because of the lab testing) cases and lab incidents (process deviation) was raising doubt on robustness of testing with the auditing agencies.Evidently, like everyone else in the Industry, this company too was continuously trying to solve these issues and improve continuously. Some of the typical solutions companies tend to take are to increase the level of supervision in the lab, to put the analysts through more training and to add resources to reduce load on the system. However, experience had shown management of this firm that these steps, while offering some improvement, did not have a sustained positive effect on parameters of interest. After a while, any improvement that accrued, stagnated. Thus, in order to achieve sustainable jump in performance, the company undertook a closer study of the testing environment with the help of Vector.This study indicated that the analysts could be under a situation of significant cognitive overload. The analysts have the responsibility to<ul><li>Conduct all activities of assigned tests as per the TDS (Test Data Sheet) – i.e. collect glassware, documents, arrange for chemicals and reagents, ensure validity of all solutions prepared till tests are complete, select appropriate equipment(e.g., column), manage instruments, etc.</li><li>Generate audit trail for which they also have to record the equipment used.</li><li>Concurrently record various observations in TDS and maintain a separate checklist to ensure no steps are missed.</li></ul>All these, the analysts have to manage in an eight hour shift by switching between various stages of testing (Instrument setting/monitoring, solution preparation, mobile phase, collecting glassware, checking/arranging resources, etc.) and by trying to take advantage of the natural waiting time in some of these stages. Unfortunately, the human brain finds such a balancing act and this level of multi-tasking very difficult to manage. Therefore, occurrences of inadvertent skips and misses became inevitable.In addition to such human errors, testing environments also tend to have systemic errors due to<ul><li>Missing information in the STP/TDS or because of inadequately documented STP/TDS</li><li>Process gap or due to gap in testing method</li></ul>However, when faced with a melee of different kinds of errors occurring, it was difficult for managers to infer and assign real causality for these errors. This confusion was leading to frequent finger pointing, stress and inability to take timely corrective actions.Based on these insights, the company with the help of Vector, could clearly define the direction of solution. They realized that the only option was to first address the cognitive overload in the system to bring down manual errors to minimal levels. Then the systemic errors due to incorrect method followed, unclear procedure, etc, will become visible and actions can be taken to rectify them. This was a revolutionary new approach hitherto not applied in the pharma industry helped the company in significantly reduce invalid OOS and bring down lab incidents.Some salient details of the results of the implementation are as below:<figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:829/572;" src="https://web-assets.vectorconsulting.in/storage/editor_uploads//case-study-tables-23check-1737357857_1776948210.jpeg" width="829" height="572"></figure>

One of the largest generic drug manufacturers in the world, was facing a slow-down in their new product approvals. The high frequency of occurrences of OOS (out of specification- i.e. breach of drug testing parameter’s allowed upper/lower limit), especially invalid OOS (breach not due to the drug itself but because of the lab testing) cases and lab incidents (process deviation) was raising doubt on robustness of testing with the auditing agencies.Evidently, like everyone else in the Industry, this company too was continuously trying to solve these issues and improve continuously. Some of the typical solutions companies tend to take are to increase the level of supervision in the lab, to put the analysts through more training and to add resources to reduce load on the system. However, experience had shown management of this firm that these steps, while offering some improvement, did not have a sustained positive effect on parameters of interest. After a while, any improvement that accrued, stagnated. Thus, in order to achieve sustainable jump in performance, the company undertook a closer study of the testing environment with the help of Vector.This study indicated that the analysts could be under a situation of significant cognitive overload. The analysts have the responsibility to<ul><li>Conduct all activities of assigned tests as per the TDS (Test Data Sheet) – i.e. collect glassware, documents, arrange for chemicals and reagents, ensure validity of all solutions prepared till tests are complete, select appropriate equipment (e.g., column), manage instruments, etc.</li><li>Generate audit trail for which they also have to record the equipment used.</li><li>Concurrently record various observations in TDS and maintain a separate checklist to ensure no steps are missed.</li></ul>All these, the analysts have to manage in an eight hour shift by switching between various stages of testing (Instrument setting/monitoring, solution preparation, mobile phase, collecting glassware, checking/arranging resources, etc.) and by trying to take advantage of the natural waiting time in some of these stages. Unfortunately, the human brain finds such a balancing act and this level of multi-tasking very difficult to manage. Therefore, occurrences of inadvertent skips and misses became inevitable.In addition to such human errors, testing environments also tend to have systemic errors due to<ul><li>Missing information in the STP/TDS or because of inadequately documented STP/TDS</li><li>Process gap or due to gap in testing method</li></ul>However, when faced with a melee of different kinds of errors occurring, it was difficult for managers to infer and assign real causality for these errors. This confusion was leading to frequent finger pointing, stress and inability to take timely corrective actions.Based on these insights, the company with the help of Vector, could clearly define the direction of solution. They realized that the only option was to first address the cognitive overload in the system to bring down manual errors to minimal levels. Then the systemic errors due to incorrect method followed, unclear procedure, etc, will become visible and actions can be taken to rectify them. This was a revolutionary new approach hitherto not applied in the pharma industry helped the company in significantly reduce invalid OOS and bring down lab incidents.Some salient details of the results of the implementation are as below:<figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:829/572;" src="https://web-assets.vectorconsulting.in/storage/editor_uploads//case-study-tables-23check-1737357857_1776948197.jpeg" width="829" height="572"></figure>&nbsp;

Discover how Vector Consulting helped a top generic drug manufacturer reduce invalid OOS and lab incidents by addressing cognitive overload and systemic errors.