Mark MacDonald
Director @Caice
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WORK HISTORY
Director @Caice
With a great team of people I have created a world class production facility, probably the best and most advanced in its industry, able to respond with great flexibility to market demands and provide an ever growing range of products. This performance has been recognised, in a CBI sponsored benchmarking programme we achieved world class status.The use of lean principles have enabled us to improve productivity, minimise waste, reduce costs, optimise space utilisation, limit stock and increase output. Lean has also helped us to provide the levels of flexibility and lead times that our industry demands. Appropriate KPI\'s have been developed and introduced to measure and help drive further improvement. We have achieved On Time In Full (OTIF) delivery performance of 99.8% whilst accommodating output variances from 80% above target to 30% below.In the face of some keen competition I reengineered one of our main product ranges to provide cost reductions, whilst at the same time adding additional client benefits/improvements. With associated investment in new machinery this provided a 25-33% cost saving which provided for payback of the investment within a few years based on current turnover. However capacity is now more than doubled and lower costs will enable much greater market penetration. In the face of a falling market share I redesigned an existing major product range, together with changes to manufacturing and the assembly process this resulted in a saving of almost 20% and a subsequent doubling of turnover for that product rangeTogether with another Director I carried out a successful acquisition of a multi-million £ Company and successfully integrated it into our business. We enhanced and added to our production facility capability and resources to enable us to efficiently produce many of their products in house. Subsequently reengineered many of their products and added associated systems and procedures to improve competitiveness, quality and consistency.
EDUCATION
Bournemouth University (Dorset Business School)
MBA, Business
SKILLS
ABOUT MARK MACDONALD
I am an experienced, determined and decisive MBA, a CMI Chartered Manager, and a Fellow…
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