Focus on waste reduction and employee empowerment

Early in his career, Fabrice designed and implemented a LEAN programme at a medium sized pharmaceutical device manufacturer.  They were one of two major suppliers to a large global pharmaceutical company who was pressuring them to reduce their price.  Although the company had already been through a restructuring to cut costs in an attempt to remain profitable and increase competitivity, there was a lack of operating standards and processes, this made the company very inefficient with significant operational waste. Thanks to the LEAN approach that Fabrice developed in house, the company was able to empower its employees to reduce waste by 15% in the first year of deployment and the organisation became the preferred supplier of devices.