Our Services
Our team brings decades of experience in manufacturing across the spectrum from sterile injectable pharmaceuticals to Diesel engines. We have worked in nearly every facet from Warehousing and Logistics to Operations and Maintenance to Human Resources and Finance. All of this knowledge allows us to see the links and make the informed recommendations for effective improvements, supporting them with a hands-on approach to execution.
Storeroom Organization
CMMS/Inventory Management System
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Cycle counting can be an overwhelming undertaking for your team, costing money and taking away valuable time. We have successfully performed cycle counts of inventory in real time with minimal impact to production schedules or pulling valuable resources away for multiple days. We work with teams to complete prework and identify workstreams that will speed the execution times.
Do you trust your MRO data? Accurate data enables leaders to make decisions across the business, whether it’s inventory, capital, or personnel. We have the expertise to identify patterns and trends in your MRO data that help generate actionable business intelligence.
We foster a culture of interaction and opportunistic hands-on training during all our engagements. We understand that learning styles vary and pulling teams away for extended periods of time to conduct classroom training can be difficult and less effective. However, our years of experience in developing and delivering custom training and orientations, which target the needs of our clients, enable impactful and sustainable results.
MRO performance goes beyond inventory value and cycle count accuracy. We can identify the metrics that are specific to your organization and will impact your MRO performance. We excel at generating scorecards and auto calculating tools to help your business visualize the data.
Are you looking at implementing VMI, troubleshooting your current relationship, or maximizing a national procurement contract? Every client’s VMI objectives are unique, and we take the time to understand. With years of experience with major vendors in the industrial supply space, we will work directly on your behalf to find the solutions which impact the objectives that matter to you.
Documentation takes many forms throughout manufacturing and our teams have worked in many areas that impact the organization. Our track record of crafting documents gives us the insight to know what should be included, but also what should not. A comprehensive package that aligns from the top down can include process maps, SOPs, job descriptions, forms, standard work, and more.
CMMS/Inventory Management Systems are only as beneficial as the integrity of the data they contain. Many organizations suffer when the physical storeroom and the computer inventory system do not align. We have spent years going through storerooms resolving these discrepancies. Some of our competitors will tell you it can be done with data analytics at a remote site. That may clean up your computer data, but it won’t match reality. Through our process, we can build confidence with your team that the system and storeroom are consistent.
Transactional costs for a single purchase order (PO) can range into the hundreds of dollars with many studies concluding the average cost is over $100. Identifying opportunities to reduce vendors can result in a decrease in PO volume saving organizations money. Redirecting the administration time spent on PO’s to other value added activities can drive improvements in the organization. We have partnered with Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and end users to find the right solutions.
Whether you have a defined process or not, we can work with your teams to develop, document, and refine the steps that are being taken to accomplish your goals. This information can be communicated in the form that works best for your team from Standard Operating Procedures to swim lanes to visual work instructions.
Whether starting from scratch or thinking about starting over, we have spent years working with clients to find the right organizational system for their environment. We design and deploy systems that allow for consistent and quick location of inventory, even applying standard nomenclature when requested.
A place for everything and everything in its place. Storeroom Organization isn’t just 5S. It is an understanding of the fundamentals of inventory management, the how’s and why’s of storing inventory in a way to optimize location, reliability, and safety.
Metrics
Cycle Counts
Inventory
System
Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) Implementation and Optimization
Vendor Consolidation
Training
Documentation
Data Analytics
Process Development
"Colin’s expertise in the industry and CMMS aptitude lend themselves greatly to the customer, making the changes to the customers inventory management system truly exceptional. The project went smoothly, was managed very well, and the customer felt like they could really feel the difference that was being made. Colin is incredibly easy to work with and has a strong work ethic that rivals anyone.”
M. Banks, Applied Industrial Technologies
At Catila Studios, we are proud to offer bilingual services in English and Spanish. We also hold ourselves to the highest standards of safety and good manufacturing practices (GMP) as well as compliance with all current CDC, municipality and on-site COVID-19 procedures to keep everyone safe and healthy in the workplace.