OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

Competing successfully with the best can only be sustained by superior practices within every function of your business.

Vector has specialist expertise to help you achieve Operational Excellence in the following specific areas:

Business Process Streamlining: Business organisation and processes have undergone radical change in recent years. Today companies recognise that a speedy, error-free performance stems from an intense customer focus not from the functional needs of internal departments. Vector has assisted major organisations across Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing and Government sectors challenge fundamental assumptions and introduce radically improved approaches to adding customer and business value.

Maintenance Management: Vector projects have enabled companies to substantially up-rate overall plant performance and achieve significant cost savings through a joint engineering and production approach to equipment operation. Typically our work encompasses the development and introduction of maintenance policies to ensure that key assets fulfil their intended function. Some of the organisations we have helped have been nationally recognised for demonstrating maintenance best practice.

Quality Systems and Standards: Vector has extensive experience of developing, introducing, and auditing quality systems across a wide range of industrial and commercial areas - in particular the Aerospace, Automotive, Defence and Utility sectors. Our capability includes working within the advanced technological environments of some of the most rigorous and safety critical establishments in the UK.

Payment and Reward Systems: The level and distribution of pay and benefits are fundamental to sound industrial relations. Over the years Vector consultants have developed and introduced all the recognised methods of rewarding the contributions made by particular people or groups within organisations - ranging from commercial and manufacturing concerns to educational establishments. These have included Payment by Results, Measured Day Work, Appraisal and Performance Related Pay, and Company-wide Schemes.

Best Practice Benchmarking: This enables you to compare your performance levels and organisation practices against the toughest competition with the aim of improving your competitive position. This has now become an element of many Excellence Award programmes. Vector has assisted companies in industrial, domestic and utility markets in the UK, mainland Europe and the United States determine best practice and establish the customers’ view of their own performance and ranking.