Operational Excellence
Every conversation starts and ends with a food & beverage operator, never an account manager.
Solution · Plant performance
Operational Excellence
Plants running below nameplate, scrap above benchmark, changeover eating shift capacity — we step onto the floor and reset throughput, yield, and OEE to the standard the line was designed for, then hand the cadence back to the operating team.
Facing these challenges?
Symptoms We See
If two or more of these show up at your plants, the throughput plateau isn’t a labour problem or a capex problem, it’s an operating-system problem. We’ve seen them all, and we’ve fixed them.
01
Throughput
Lines running 15–30% below nameplate
Rated speed is a number on a spec sheet, not a number on the floor. Micro-stops, slow starts, and unsupported shifts hide the real loss.
02
Scrap & yield
Scrap above your category benchmark
Scrap reporting tells you it happened. It rarely tells you why, or where, in basis points, the same line lost it last month.
03
Changeover
Changeover eating shift capacity
Four-hour changeovers where peers are at two. Mix complexity has outgrown the SOPs, and the line keeps paying for it.
04
Reporting
OEE that aggregates away the loss
One number for the plant. Three numbers for the line. None of them tell the shift lead what to fix in the next hour.
05
CI program
Paper savings, not P&L lift
The continuous improvement office is busy. The income statement is unchanged. Projects close on a deck and never reach the GL.
06
Cadence
Plateaued for eighteen months
The first wins came easy. The next ten basis points haven’t moved in six quarters, because the operating cadence stopped escalating losses to action.
Our services
Services Under Operational Excellence
Each service is tied to a metric. Engagements bundle two to four of these, sized to your plant footprint, your buyer, and the number you need to move.
Saphineia’s cross-functional team of manufacturing practitioners can help identify the root causes of performance and profitability challenges and provide boots-on-the-ground support to help your teams turn things around.
Saphineia’s cross-functional team of manufacturing practitioners can help identify the root causes of performance and profitability challenges and provide boots-on-the-ground support to help your teams turn things around.
Saphineia’s cross-functional team of manufacturing practitioners can help identify the root causes of performance and profitability challenges and provide boots-on-the-ground support to help your teams turn things around.
Saphineia’s cross-functional team of manufacturing practitioners can help identify the root causes of performance and profitability challenges and provide boots-on-the-ground support to help your teams turn things around.
Saphineia’s cross-functional team of manufacturing practitioners can help identify the root causes of performance and profitability challenges and provide boots-on-the-ground support to help your teams turn things around.
Saphineia’s cross-functional team of manufacturing practitioners can help identify the root causes of performance and profitability challenges and provide boots-on-the-ground support to help your teams turn things around.
Saphineia’s cross-functional team of manufacturing practitioners can help identify the root causes of performance and profitability challenges and provide boots-on-the-ground support to help your teams turn things around.
Saphineia’s cross-functional team of manufacturing practitioners can help identify the root causes of performance and profitability challenges and provide boots-on-the-ground support to help your teams turn things around.
Success stories
Our Proven Manufacturing Impact
Operational Excellence
Insights & news
Insights for Manufacturing Leaders
Project Planning & Execution
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Operational Excellence
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Project Planning & Execution
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Quality And Food Safety
“Our depth chart is not three-deep”
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Frequently asked questions
Common Questions We’re Asked
Saphineia is a team of seasoned food and beverage operating practitioners who have cut their teeth at leading CPGs and who work shoulder-to-shoulder with operations teams, private equity investors, and lenders to help solve operational problems, improve profitability, increase the success of transformation projects and create lasting business value.
We work with middle-market food and beverage manufacturers with $100M to $4B in revenue, including founder-led operations, PE-backed portfolio companies, and investment and lending teams that invest in the industry.
We are not a traditional consulting firm where projects are staffed by recent undergrads or MBAs who have never worked in factories. Rather, we are practitioners who have spent most of our careers inside food and beverage operations in procurement, manufacturing, quality and food safety, and supply chain roles. Because we have walked in your shoes, Saphineia uniquely understands the challenges food & beverage manufacturers face on a daily basis.
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Connect with our team of food and beverage manufacturing operators to explore practical, execution-focused solutions designed to improve efficiency, performance, and operational stability.