Bottom Line Results

“Beacon led our internal team through our first Business Improvement Assessment (BIA). As a direct result of the BIA effort the team was able to grow $300K license upgrade to a $3 million solution expansion.”

Brice Elliott
VP Supply Chain Management Sales
Peoplesoft

Bottom Line Results
Beacon engagements are designed to be self funding and are focused on delivering measurable, bottom-line results At the end of the day RESULTS is what matters!
	CPP saves $30 Million annually in design costs Over $300 Million in manufacturing costs
	Maximizing Space Utilization & Throughput Assembly are space utilization was reduced by 50% Product assembly time was reduced by over 30% Inventory reduced by 30% in 5 months
	Executed Business Improvement Assessment Closed deal with in 1 1/2 months Grew deal from $300,000 to $3.0 Million
	Improving Manufacturing Processes Reduced setup time from 8 hours to less than 1 hour Delivered $150 Million in annual savings
	Successful ERP Implementation Provided 98%+ inventory accuracy Reduced financial closing process from 1 week to 1 day.
	Product Development Improved Time to Market/Quality Reduced new product development time from 18 months to 8 months Dropped new product development costs form $18M to $9M Reduced quality returns from 7% to less than 1%
	Quality Initiatives Reduce Time to Market Institutionalized concurrent engineering and collocation concepts reducing time to market from 2 years to less than 1 year. Quality of embedded computer system software was increased by a order of magnitude through the use of Software Quality Assurance concepts.
	"Time to Resolution" Process Saves Money Quickly identifies problems, determines root cause, fixes the problem and feeds the information into the product development process to prevent future problems Reduced the current problem resolution cycle by 50% and reduced warranty costs significantly.
	“Lean Transformation Methodology Drives Productivity improvements Productivity was improved over 15% within eight months, with improved product quality. Program savings topped $2M+ annually.
	Increased Profits Through Product Development Improvements Over 100% improvement in new product development without increasing engineering staff $300 MM in additional profit from additional new products.