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What we do

We have many years experience of improving: production, operations and service performance, globally.

We understand what “very good” looks like and help our clients dramatically improve performance where there are gaps.

We reduce: cost, defects, complaints, inventory levels, lead times, changeovers (and times), team sizes, shrinkage, downtime, waste, obsolescence, impairment and bad debt.

We increase: forecast accuracy, capacity, performance, standards, quality, OTIF, throughput, utilisation, collection rates, service levels, productive time, confidence, customer satisfaction and engagement levels.

We improve: line layouts and balancing, batch sizes, consistency, transparency, understanding, performance reviews, KPIs, improvement actions, root cause analysis, maintenance, cashflow and management performance.

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Production Excellence

​We have successfully improved performance across virtually every type of production environment. From mining and oil and gas production and processing, through to manual and automated production lines in: food, plastics, engineering, chemicals, furniture, metal, medical, automotive and aerospace.

We understand the challenges and help clients solve very specific problems to improve their performance.

  • Rapid assessment and diagnosis - where are the gaps?
  • Opportunity evaluation and prioritisation - what do we fix first?
  • Communications, deployment and focus on quick wins and tangible results
  • Co-development of best practice, training and coaching of internal champions during implementation

We have successfully implemented best practice in:

  • Planning and forecasting
  • Production scheduling and resource planning
  • Line optimisation, layout, balancing and changeovers
  • Production optimisation and reliability improvement
  • Automation, engineering and maintenance
  • Inventory management, logistics and warehousing optimisation
  • Delivering, leading and supporting behavioural change
  • Coaching and improving the effectiveness of managers, team leaders and champions

Service Excellence

​We have successfully delivered service excellence projects for a variety of clients across: banking, financial services, insurance, utilities, technology, telecoms, automotive, credit cards, media and sports.

We understand the challenges and help clients solve very specific problems to improve their performance.

  • Rapid assessment and diagnosis - where are the gaps?
  • Opportunity evaluation and prioritisation - what do we fix first?
  • Communications, deployment and focus on quick wins and tangible results
  • Co-development of best practice, training and coaching of internal champions during implementation

We have successfully implemented best practice in:

  • Planning and forecasting
  • Resource planning
  • Front line: voice, telephony and digital
  • End to end collections
  • Customer services
  • Quality and complaints
  • Fraud operations
  • Sales and marketing
  • Finance
  • Human resources
  • Facilities management
  • Technology
  • Change management
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Production Optimisation

We understand performance and how to create and unlock significant value for our clients.

There are a number of potential causes for erosion within production systems:

  • There are a lack of production processes; existing processes are driven by individual functions. Production management is teamwork, before functional sophistication
  • Asset technical limits are not well understood and regularly challenged. They tend to be based on perceived history, not agreed data
  • Within the organisation, production accountabilities are overlapping and/or unclear
  • Production skills are not recognised, or managed
  • Opportunities and risks are not detailed enough to drive granular plans for us, our contractors or our partners
  • Expectations on 3rd parties and/ or partners are not well set – they assume a certain behaviour set
  • We invest millions in collecting data, we are not good at turning it into performance insight
  • Continuous improvement is not sustained unless driven top down and bottom up by the performance limits, not financial budgets

Production Management Framework

Define Technical Potential

  • Quantify maximum flowrate through each element of the production system
  • Develop choke models and validate with owners
  • Test and verify system constraints

Set Targets and Forecast

  • Agree assumptions (and identified ranges) and set targets
  • Agree forecast & key actions to deliver

Iterate with Integrated Activity Plans (IAP)

  • Ensure all key activities are reflected in the IAP
  • Optimise resource use and ensure timely execution of activities

 

 

 

Monitor and Optimise

  • Monitor key leading indicators for each choke against targets/set points
  • Manage the identified optimisation process(es)

Eliminate Losses

  • Identify and catalogue all choke losses
  • Mitigate root causes of systemic problems to prevent loss recurrence

Manage Risks and Opportunities

  • Capture and deliver opportunities that increase production & grow potential
  • Identify issues & prioritise actions to mitigate any risks to delivery

Management Framework

  • Performance reviews with KPIs are in place to make timely decisions and follow up on actions
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Success Stories

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Tim Hawkin


Managing Director

tim@hawkinandco.com

+44 7774 835 359

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Simon Holcombe


Operational Excellence

simon@hawkinandco.com

+27 79 403 6741

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Harry McClurg


Operational Excellence

harry@hawkinandco.com

+44 7501 433 855

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Nigel James


Operational Excellence

nigel@hawkinandco.com

+44 7917 098 163

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Sonny Ngantu


Operational Excellence

sonny@hawkinandco.com

+44 7986 547 370

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What Our Clients Say

  • Alex is an outstanding procurement professional. He is meticulous and methodical in his approach and this made him very successful in the projects that he managed in our time working together. Through his ambition and drive, Alex was promoted during our time together and proceeded to manage large projects and categories. 

    David Skinner
    Head of Corporate Services & Solutions at Crown Commercial Service

  • Alex has worked for me on a number of procurement projects on a recent Business Optimisation Programme covering the HR, Professional Services, Training and IT categories. He has worked diligently to deliver significant savings for the client, improving processes and providing stakeholders with insightful data and options to make high quality business decisions.

  • We started working with Alex and his team over a year ago. Thanks to the easy process and supportive team we saved over 70% on our recruitment spend in one year. They have saved us thousands in advertising and the made our processes much smoother, with a very easy to use recruitment portal. I would definitely recommend getting in touch with Alex if you are looking for an easy, cost effective recruitment process!

    Nicola Gorman
    HR & Recruitment Co-ordinator

  • Tim was instrumental in helping drive the business forward from a company that was at that time a niche market player with 25 employees mainly dealing with commercial claims and temporary humidity control type jobs. Fresh vision and drive paid dividends in starting a path that saw massive organisational growth within the company’s UK Restoration Division.I thank Tim as he was responsible for my personal growth and development from technician to team manager and then Area Manager, culminating in the extent of knowledge and experience gained over the years. Tim is a respected and solid man manager who I would reccommend to any organisation looking to implement change in their operation at either back office or service delivery ends.

    Steve Cranston
    Regional Manager

  • Tim led the manufacturing excellence project that impacted and improved every part of our operation including: customer services, planning, warehousing, logistics, production, laboratory and the whole of our supervisory and management team. The team helped us design, develop and implement new tools and methodology that have improved our performance by: increasing customer service levels, reducing inventory levels and increasing productivity to levels that we could not have achieved on our own. Tim is talented and trusted , and has helped us make a difficult but important step change in our performance and the way that we now operate and manage the site.

    Pascal Cosneau
    Site Director

  • Tim led the manufacturing excellence project with the aim of improving our UK manufacturing performance, lowering our cost per kg and supporting the expansion of the site to more than double its production output. He and the team quickly got to grips with implementing quick wins and developing the area plans for a comprehensive roll out with our site and shift management teams.  There is no doubt that without the support of Tim and the team we could not have achieved the improvements in manufacturing and engineering performance that we have realised in the last 12 months.

    Paul Else
    Site Director

  • Tim led an efficiency improvement project team with the aim of improving our business processes and helping increase our North Sea production volumes. This involved coaching offshore and being responsible for supporting the performance improvements on North Cormorant (our largest manned platform). During the project stage the team quickly got to grips with identifying our potential improvement areas and helped develop the improvement project plan for roll out with our management team. Building good relationships whilst both on and offshore with the teams, the input was invaluable. Together we created a fresh outlook on alternative ways of working and how to use our business data to drive improvement actions. Well-liked and respected I would not hesitate to recommend Tim and his team’s services.

    John Hogg
    Asset Manager (Harding Area)

  • Tim joined as part of an efficiency improvement project team with the aim of improving our business processes and helping increase our North Sea production volumes. Initially Tim joined as an offshore coach responsible for supporting the performance improvements on North Cormorant (our largest manned platform. Tim was then appointed for the rollout project where he quickly got to grips with identifying potential improvement areas and helped develop the improvement project plan for roll out with our management team. Tim brought a fresh outlook on alternative ways of working and how to use our business data to drive improvement actions. Well-liked and respected I would not hesitate to recommend his services to a potential client.

  • I worked with Tom on an Activity Based Cost Study. I found him to be easy to work with, was able to work without supervision and took the lead with many actions. He was able to work successfully with varying levels of staff, ensuring the project was completed to time.