Leanarrow LLC
Decades of experience brought to every client, every time, always delivering results instead of glossy marketing and "to do" lists
Our Services
If you have challenges holding your business back, there is a good chance that we resolved similar issues for our clients. If you don’t know where to start, we can provide a limited time free business diagnostic to qualified businesses that will clearly identify the most lucrative opportunities to improve your business and also verify that we are a good fit for your needs.
The front end of the business is perhaps the most critical yet least understood process in many businesses. The hand-offs and decision authority between Business Development, Engineering, Ops, Finance, Cost Estimating and Program Management are often blurred. The customer feedback and focus are lost as the team struggles to get a high quality proposal back to the customer on time at a winning price. The problem isn’t the people involved. The problem is the process has never been intentionally re-designed to maximize customer value. Leanarrow deploys their front-end experts to work with all functions involved in the bid and proposal process to re-design the processes to maximize proposal quality while simultaneously reducing lead-time by eliminating waste.
Quality
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Recent headlines highlight the catastrophic results associated with a quality system that is degraded due to delivery pressure. Leanarrow’s Management System emphasizes a need to prioritize Safety and Quality above Delivery and Financial Performance. Why? If Safety and Quality is jeopardized, the entire business system is at risk of failure due to the loss of customers and employees. We design business systems that ensure Quality is appropriately prioritized and never jeopardized for short-term financial benefits.
The front end of the business is perhaps the most critical yet least understood process in many businesses. The hand-offs and decision authority between Business Development, Engineering, Ops, Finance, Cost Estimating and Program Management are often blurred. The customer feedback and focus are lost as the team struggles to get a high quality proposal back to the customer on time at a winning price. The problem isn’t the people involved. The problem is the process has never been intentionally re-designed to maximize customer value. Leanarrow deploys their front-end experts to work with all functions involved in the bid and proposal process to re-design the processes to maximize proposal quality while simultaneously reducing lead-time by eliminating waste.
Supply Chain
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Supply chain lead times, inflation and risk are increasing globally. Rapid intervention is often required to avoid damaged reputations and financial crisis. Leanarrow can rapidly deploy resources to your supplier’s sites when required to quickly acquire the critical facts and data needed to achieve your goals. We also provide expertise in supply chain strategy, materials management, master production scheduling, pull system implementation, Sales and Operations Planning, demand forecasting and a variety of other supply chain best practices.
The front end of the business is perhaps the most critical yet least understood process in many businesses. The hand-offs and decision authority between Business Development, Engineering, Ops, Finance, Cost Estimating and Program Management are often blurred. The customer feedback and focus are lost as the team struggles to get a high quality proposal back to the customer on time at a winning price. The problem isn’t the people involved. The problem is the process has never been intentionally re-designed to maximize customer value. Leanarrow deploys their front-end experts to work with all functions involved in the bid and proposal process to re-design the processes to maximize proposal quality while simultaneously reducing lead-time by eliminating waste.
Manufacturing
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Increasing global competition, supply chain challenges, employee turnover and new regulations present a combination of challenges not seen before by US manufacturers. The practices of the past no longer work and many businesses no longer exist because they failed to re-design their manufacturing and management systems to adapt to the changing landscape.
Businesses with a well defined intentionally designed manufacturing system outpace and outgrow the competition. The secret isn’t in their talent or technology. They have a superior system design.
Leanarrow provides tactical short-term rapid containment expertise in parallel with strategic long-term system re-design so that our clients feel immediate relief and also benefit with a long-term system that they can continue to improve for years to come.
The front end of the business is perhaps the most critical yet least understood process in many businesses. The hand-offs and decision authority between Business Development, Engineering, Ops, Finance, Cost Estimating and Program Management are often blurred. The customer feedback and focus are lost as the team struggles to get a high quality proposal back to the customer on time at a winning price. The problem isn’t the people involved. The problem is the process has never been intentionally re-designed to maximize customer value. Leanarrow deploys their front-end experts to work with all functions involved in the bid and proposal process to re-design the processes to maximize proposal quality while simultaneously reducing lead-time by eliminating waste.
Business Systems Diagnostic
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All good mechanics know the first step to fixing your car is to perform a diagnostic on the entire system. Your business is no different. Leanarrow collaborates with your employees to perform a thorough business system diagnostic. The result is clarity to the top 2 to 3 issues degrading the financial performance and a clear plan of attack defining how Leanarrow experts will partner with your employees to accelerate the solution.
The front end of the business is perhaps the most critical yet least understood process in many businesses. The hand-offs and decision authority between Business Development, Engineering, Ops, Finance, Cost Estimating and Program Management are often blurred. The customer feedback and focus are lost as the team struggles to get a high quality proposal back to the customer on time at a winning price. The problem isn’t the people involved. The problem is the process has never been intentionally re-designed to maximize customer value. Leanarrow deploys their front-end experts to work with all functions involved in the bid and proposal process to re-design the processes to maximize proposal quality while simultaneously reducing lead-time by eliminating waste.
Sales & Business Development
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The front end of the business is perhaps the most critical yet least defined portion of many business designs. The hand-offs between Business Development, Program Management, Sales, Engineering and Operations are blurred. Vital customer feedback and critical proposal deadlines are lost in the swirl of competing inputs. Leanarrow’s front end experts work with your cross-functional teams to simplify the front end processes, integrate quality and delivery metrics and clarify roles and responsibilities. The result is higher win rates on proposals, improved proposal quality and improved proposal delivery.
The front end of the business is perhaps the most critical yet least understood process in many businesses. The hand-offs and decision authority between Business Development, Engineering, Ops, Finance, Cost Estimating and Program Management are often blurred. The customer feedback and focus are lost as the team struggles to get a high quality proposal back to the customer on time at a winning price. The problem isn’t the people involved. The problem is the process has never been intentionally re-designed to maximize customer value. Leanarrow deploys their front-end experts to work with all functions involved in the bid and proposal process to re-design the processes to maximize proposal quality while simultaneously reducing lead-time by eliminating waste.
Maintenance Excellence
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Plant Engineering, Maintenance and Plant Services are the backbone of many organizations. Keeping the machines and plant infrastructure maintained is critical for any business to achieve their goals. Unfortunately, the feedback from these professionals is that there is never enough time to fix the machines right due to production schedules, tight deadlines and end of quarter shipments.
Leanarrow works with our clients to perform maintenance deep dives by designing a system where the critical components on the critical machines on the critical production lines get the time and attention they deserve with minimal to no impact to production. We do this by incorporating other elements into the Maintenance Excellence system such as Master Production scheduling. We also adopt Lean best practices such as 5S, Maintenance Standard Work, Autonomous Maintenance, Kanban on critical parts and capital planning. The result is less downtime, more capacity and increased productivity.
*Leanarrow has expertise in many other functional areas. Please contact us with questions.
About Leanarrow LLC
What We Do
Every business is a complex system of individual components that must work together to achieve the desired performance. When one component under performs the entire system suffers. The result is low morale, high turnover, poor quality, late deliveries and poor financial performance. Leanarrow partners with our clients to perform a business system diagnostic, identify specific areas that are degrading performance then re-design the process to deliver results.
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Unlike our competitors who send inexperienced Ivy League MBA's to their clients, every Leanarrow consultant earned executive leadership roles in corporate America after decades of solving challenges similar to what is holding you back. This depth of experience provides rapid solutions because we are a team of "doers" and realize your return on investment on consulting fees is based on solving the problem quickly, deeply rooting the solutions in place, and working alongside your team to ensure success continues after the consultants leave. Our expertise reaches across all functions of any business including Strategy, Quality, Sales, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Engineering, EHS and facility consolidation. We worked in many different industries including AI power solutions, aerospace & defense, vehicles, battery, plastics, HVAC, food, logistics, wire & cable, cosmetics and more. We are confident we can help you.
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