Turnarounds

Get your Business back on track in 6 months.

RL Operational excellence can recover business results and get results back on track as fast as 6 months in any environment. Staying on budget and competitive are core to any business. Recover site, sites, or a division result and get your business back on track and focused on the future.

Does Your Organization Have Gaps In:

  • Downward trending profits
  • Cash flow struggles
  • Maxed out credit lines
  • Declining capital investment
  • Declining product and service quality
  • High staff turnover

RL Operational Excellence’s Turnarounds Offering, you will:

  • Recover profitability
  • Restore product and service quality
  • Hone-in Cash flow
  • Nurture a culture of improvement
  • Increase Organization Capabilities
  • Re-establish capital investments

Regain control of your business, its operations and financials.

Turnaround consulting should be aggressive yet thoughtful, the experience you hire should already understand how to get results quickly without sacrificing other core areas or metrics. Applying lean thinking and accelerating results needs a partner that has walked in your shoes and understands the different stakeholder’s requirements. RL Operational Excellence works both top to bottom and across your organization to accelerate implementation that yield real results. Our proven approach closes gaps that other consulting firms promise.

RL Operational Excellence Turnaround Outcomes:
  • 11 points EBITDA improvement in 12 months
  • 4-6:1 Return on Investment (Cost Savings vs. Consulting Spend)
  • Customer Satisfaction and Delivery to Leading position against competition
  • Reduced Inventory 50+% and Improved Delivery to 98%​

Increase profitability: Utilizing experience in running multiple sites, divisions, and company’s our seasoned team can turnaround operations in any environment. Our team can cut through the long To Do lists and multiple priorities and get the results in a ‘balanced with focus’ way.

Drive Quality: When customers begin to lose trust in the product and service it results in additional costs and inefficiencies. This perpetuates negative results, but experience in operations and supply chain will knock down roadblocks to accelerate your organization’s comprehensive plan and restore customer trust. Protecting the customer and eliminating quality issues from end to beginning can be resolved quickly due to our deep cross-functional knowledge.

Generate Cash: Address cash in a multitude of ways; Order to Cash, Inventory, Customers/Vendors, etc. Our team understands the levers in any situation to get the Cash flow back to normal operating conditions. Using strategic inputs, current operational system performance and voice of customer your company’s inventory and cash can be improved 30-50%.

Culture of Improvement: Many hands make light work; our team knows how to empower large groups and teams to exponentially accelerate the task at hand. While executing, instilling continuous improvement is at the forefront to build sustainability of the turnaround. Understanding the functions across the business allow for accelerated identification of root causes to realize improved results faster.

Increase Organizational Capabilities: Our team will come in to drive results while simultaneously coaching up your organizations team. In parallel, driving systemic improvements such as Leader Standard Work, Tiered Meeting systems, practical problem solving. Fostering capability building increases turn around buy-in and increases the success percent of the turnaround sustainability.

Increase Organizational Capabilities: Our team will come in to drive results while simultaneously coaching up your organizations team. In parallel, driving systemic improvements such as Leader Standard Work, Tiered Meeting systems, practical problem solving. Fostering capability building increases turn around buy-in and increases the success percent of the turnaround sustainability.

The RL Operational Excellence Approach to Turnarounds

  • Evaluate key hi-level data
  • Current state of the operations
  • Identify macro themes
  • Requirements of the Business and Customer
  • Detailed requirements 
  • Internal KPI’s gaps prioritized
  • Set targets for results
  • Establish overall support structure (resourcing) for the turnaround
  • Set communication plan of how the teams will work together
  • Plan out key relationships
  • Identify critical positions where bandwidth is required
  • Set gameplan for key supporting roles
  • Track progress at the daily and weekly level
  • Establish feedback loops on KPI’s, Daily and Weekly performance
  • Cross-functional deep dive reviews on the critical results
  • Embedded and committed resource support
  • Accountability from the Top down
  • Follow-up, follow-up, follow-up and shortened learning cycles