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Industry: Consumer Products Manufacturing

Services Provided: Program and Project Management, Change Management, Executive Mentoring/Coaching

Company: A billion-dollar manufacturer and marketer of beauty, personal care, and household products around the globe.

Challenge: After completing a 28-state search to identify a site for its new manufacturing facility in the United States, the company sought to accomplish an ambitiously aggressive

timeline of one year from groundbreaking to get a state-of-the-art, 475,000-square-foot, $60-million manufacturing facility open

and operational.

Solution: The company’s key executives sought out a dedicated program leader to ensure that all aspects of this highly complex, enterprise-level strategic initiative were orchestrated as a coordinated effort. They turned to PM Solutions for a senior

program manager who could meet these aggressive goals, translate the company’s vision into a actionable plan, identify the right

resources to involve, and coordinate all stakeholders toward the common goal. Just weeks after groundbreaking, PM Solutions’

senior program manager played a key role in unifying the program, minimizing confusion, improving communications among

business units and senior leadership, building an awareness among team members on the strategic implications of the program,

and establishing and managing the schedule to ensure that strategic milestones were being met.

Working with more than 20 senior internal leaders from over 25 corporate and site-level operating units, PM Solutions’ senior

program manager fostered evolutionary change within the organization in terms of reducing barriers and building communication

bridges between the different units. At the site level, PM Solutions’ senior program manager used lean manufacturing principles

to assist in the translation of existing corporate policies to fit the new manufacturing culture.

VA L U E D E L I V E R E D

The company realized 33% of

their projected return seven

months ahead of schedule.

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The new manufacturing facility was delivered on time,

beginning production one year after breaking ground.

It normally takes up to 24 months for a facility of this

size and complexity to open. Initially 120 new US-based

jobs were created, and once the facility was operating

at full capacity, 400 new jobs were created. This facility

project was predicated on providing the company with

organizational consolidation, an additional growth platform,

lean manufacturing capability, overhead reduction, and

added capacity at an expected savings in excess of

$12 million per year. Since the facility was able to be

operational in just 12 months, the company realized 33%

of their projected return seven months ahead of schedule.

Based on this performance, PM Solutions remains

engaged with this client helping to integrate specialized

manufacturing units into the facility along with newly

acquired product lines.

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