{"id":6129,"date":"2008-12-15T07:52:40","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T14:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=6129"},"modified":"2008-12-15T07:52:40","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T14:52:40","slug":"in-detroit-idle-is-a-four-letter-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/6129\/in-detroit-idle-is-a-four-letter-word\/","title":{"rendered":"In Detroit, Idle is a Four Letter Word"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a prior life, before becoming a licensed real estate professional, I was responsible for implementing supply chain technology in the discrete manufacturing arena – more specifically – the auto industry.<\/p>\n

Over a 7 month period, between 1998 and 1999, I made a temporary home in Sterling Heights, Michigan – 16 mile and Mound Road to be exact – home to Ford Motor Company’s largest real axle and transmission manufacturing and assembly facility – one million square feet of real estate, generating roughly $1.7B of product.\u00a0 The plant was as vertical an operation as I have seen, short of a foundry.\u00a0 From raw forged metal, UAW workers machined gears and assembled rear wheel drive transmissions for Ford’s cars and trucks – the Mustang, Lincoln Town Car, Explorer and the Ranger pickup – at the time, some of Ford’s hottest products – the Explorer was selling like crazy.<\/p>\n

Before setting foot in Sterling Heights, I was tasked with creating a new sales methodology, tools and implementation plan that calculated the ROI of our supply chain technology solution once implemented.\u00a0 The sales methodology walked a senior executive through the hard dollar, tangible savings and return to bottom-line profit contribution our technology solution would deliver.<\/p>\n

Process created – tools developed – mission accomplished.<\/p>\n

Or so I thought.\u00a0 Now go prove that it actually works.<\/p>\n

My first – and my team’s feat was to sell our solution to the VP of Operations.\u00a0 We walked through the process and learned from our discussions that the VP of Operations was given the directive to reduce Work In Process inventory – WIP had grown disproportionately to end-unit assembled transmissions.\u00a0 This particular problem was a no-brainer – our sweet spot.\u00a0 Our solution optimized the flow of WIP and synchronized the flow of raw material to end-unit assembled transmissions via planning and scheduling algorithms.\u00a0 Cake.<\/p>\n

Unique to our solution was our commitment to reduce WIP over a 12 month period.\u00a0 Our proposition – Ford would pay our travel expenses and small overhead expenses for our 12 month assignment – nothing more UNLESS we delivered results over and above the $20M goal.\u00a0 Any additional savings above and Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a prior life, before becoming a licensed real estate professional, I was responsible for implementing supply chain technology in the discrete manufacturing arena – more specifically – the auto industry. 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