The Time Wise® Approach

Increasingly, Supply Chain performance is recognized as a new dimension of competitive strategy to leverage market position and mitigate resource constraints. World-class companies that invest in this strategic capability achieve higher operating margin, better asset utilization, and accelerated profitable growth over their competition.

The current global business environment is pushing the performance-to-value frontier at an unprecedented pace. Continual improvement is the only way companies can keep pace with the higher performance baselines required to prosper. However, without sustainability, continual improvement cannot be maintained. Consequently, the mandate for sustainability has necessitated a shift from “doing Lean” to “sustaining Lean”. To support this paradigm shift, Time Wise® products and services have been developed to promote a strategically focused operations approach to enterprise performance improvement.

Time Wise Management Systems (TWMS) is an industry leader in developing World Class supplier networks with programs in Lean Enterprise, Quality Management Systems and Business Continuity Planning. Time Wise facilitates interaction between industry, government and academia in order to develop highly effective solutions for the related supply base. Client participation in Time Wise Solutions® have resulted in measurable improvements in quality escapes, cost reductions and time savings.

Time Wise Management Systems

Time Wise Management Systems capabilities include business performance improvement solutions for the office, the shop floor and throughout the supply chain. TWMS offers:

	•	World Class training materials for awareness, planning, implementation and follow up. Complete knowledge transfer for participants and facilitators with keys to success and pitfalls to avoid.
	•	The Time Wise Suite of Lean Products meets the training, education and development qualifications of the Lean Certification Program established by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
	•	Top Gun consultants have been fully vetted to deliver a consistent and repeatable set of Solutions nationally.
	•	Business Management Technology sustaining continual improvement and driving return on investment with web enabled visibility of the performance dashboard and complete program accountability.
	•	Supply chain development and integration solutions that help Large Systems Integrators, prime OEMs and the US Government build high performance supply chain networks.
	•	Linking new capacities created with Lean to actual demand for rapid response manufacturing.

TWMS presents a compelling value proposition to organizations that wish to achieve strategic process improvements, sustain their performance gains, and drive continual improvement across their supply chains. This offers an unmatched economic development cycle that generates momentum at the actual point of supply and demand.