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Comprehensive Analysis of your Food Bank

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A Reputable Consulting Company for Hunger-Relief Charities

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Serving Food Banks Nationwide

From facility audits, supply chain optimization to growth analysis, we are your one stop shop to design, grow and expand food banks.

What are the steps we use?

  1. Determine problem areas that can immediately be improved
  2. Define problems that require longer-term solutions
  3. Identify detrimental items that prevent the economical operation of your enterprise
  4. Organize these tasks by priority and investment and take action to correct the detrimental items
  5. Develop design solutions that will have compounding benefits for your organization
  6. Utilize existing equipment and labor to improve your operation where possible
  7. Calculate the facility and space requirements for your operation now and in the future
  8. Establish a longer-term program to operate a facility that meets your goals
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Tools and Methods

  1. Document unique facility information using a facility profile form.
  2. Perform a facility audit using our detailed facility survey form.
  3. Conduct a productivity survey using the supply chain optimization form.
  4. Interview Management.
  5. Conduct work cell audits, including an ergonomic study.
  6. Conduct a process flow analysis.
  7. Include digital images of the problem areas.
  8. Provide methods to correct detrimental items quickly, detailed in Microsoft Projects.
  9. Delegation of a task, to a specific staff member, us, or other contractors.
  10. Prepare cost estimates including labor and materials for each task, using a cost justification analysis.
  11. Conduct a space plan analysis of the facility using our own program
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Documents and Models

  1. A document of the existing system as a benchmark is provided
  2. We create one rearranged model using the existing equipment
  3. A second model using some new or built in house equipment is also provided
  4. Starting with a clean slate we create a third state of the art model
  5. Review with management the results of all three models
  6. Create a hybrid model from that meeting
  7. Create a cost model for the new design
  8. Create a recurring cost model to illustrate operational costs
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Deliverables

  1. Project report with tasks
  2. Priority of effort
  3. Expenditures required and when
  4. Ownership of tasks
  5. Photos of existing conditions
  6. Solution illustrations, alternate solutions
  7. Recommended course of action
  8. Proposals for our involvement where practical
  9. Building requirements document
  10. Site selection available
  11. Building drawings
  12. Equipment and wish lists
  13. Fundraising budget

How We Work

How a Food Bank Works

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Task List (Microsoft Project report) by priority, resources, and details to achieve:

  1. An improvement
  2. A new or redesigned work cell
  3. A modernization
  4. An expansion
  5. A move into a new building
  6. From where you are now to operating in a new or expanded building

Features

A very detailed listing of how to do it. Highlights of this effort may include:

  • Define facilities team and assign responsibilities
  • Prepare master schedule
  • Review existing operation
  • Review existing facility review
  • Growth goals
  • New initiatives
  • Study book and needs assessment for donors, publications, and presentations
  • Alternate facility strategies
  • Facility model - site-specific or generic
  • Estimate of facility cost
  • Value engineering
  • Building budget
  • Equipment budget
  • Furnishings budget
  • Fundraising budget
  • Facilities maintenance fund
  • Land/building acquisition
  • Financing costs
  • Moving costs
  • Agency infrastructure
  • Endowment (20%)
  • Cost of operation of new facility
  • Project communications
  • Board presentation
  • Documentation requirements
  • Facility design and construction
  • Move-in and operations plan
  • Post implementation audit

Benefits

The report represents:

  1. A well thought out map on how to cross the finish line and get your project on task and on time
  2. Provides an efficient work planning tool for staff and others concerned
  3. Helps manage resources
  4. Allows management to make good decisions
  5. Puts years of our management experience on paper for your benefit
  6. Generates a successful program

Supply Chain Optimization Report (Productivity Audit) Features and Benefits

Features

  1. Review and comments for “Supply Chain” improvement
  2. Ideas
  3. Sketches of solutions
  4. A how to improve it guide -organized by priority and an estimate of the investment required
  5. Sections headings below are included in the report. Each section has many points of discussion

Features

  1. Review and comments for “Supply Chain” improvement
  2. Ideas
  3. Sketches of solutions
  4. A how to improve it guide -organized by priority and an estimate of the investment required
  5. Sections headings below are included in the report. Each section has many points of discussion
  • Business Effectiveness
  • Business Emergency Plan
  • Customer Focus
  • Customer Experience—Our most important feature
  • Life Safety Systems
  • General Communications
  • Employee Training
  • Utilization of Manpower
  • Engineering
  • Equipment Requirements
  • Duty Cycle of Equipment
  • Damage of Equipment and Goods
  • Ergonomics
  • Forklift Training and Safety
  • Work Cell Audit- Move, Material, Method
  • Work in Process
  • Containers
  • Production Equipment
  • Receiving
  • Routing and Tracking
  • Storage Planning
  • Storage
  • Storage Systems
  • Safety Storage and Retrieval
  • Order Picking
  • Packaging
  • Shipping
  • Shipment Data Collection
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Organization and Systems
  • Preventative and Corrective Maintenance
  • Recycling and Trash Handling
  • Implementation Audits

Benefits

  1. You receive the benefit of our working in many companies across the country including Mexico and Canada and noting the “Best Practices” we have observed over the last 48 years
  2. You receive an audit that rates your effort based on the scale below. The ratings come from discussions conducted with your team members
    1. +2 Best practice
    2. +1 Solid Effort
    3.  0 No effect on profitability
    4. -1 Detracts from profitability
    5. -2 Activity trap that detracts from profitability
  3. We provide a detailed task list that orders the effort by:
    1. Policy changes that require no investment - simply do things a little differently
    2. Some investment required- low cost ideas that make an improvement in profitability quickly
    3. Longer term capital equipment required - that improves the move, the method and the material
  4. Get the added benefit of increasing your team’s performance
    Invention and high achievement are trademarks of success
    We strive to pattern the work after highly successful companies
    We do not recommend copying average companies only to be average

We want you to enjoy the benefits of improvement by giving you the customer experience you deserve.