COMPANIES WITH MORE THAN 50 EMPLOYEES

If your business is facing too many red lights, it's time to take control and secure its future. Turnaround Solutions, an initiative by the DOL uses a wide range of business specialists to provide practical and productivity improvement soultions that will assist you. The only pre-requisite is that your company has a staff component of 40-50 people or more.

Productivity and Competitive Advantage

Developing productive and competitive enterprises, while promoting job retention, job creation and poverty alleviation is of utmost importance to us as we seek to support Government-directed national strategic initiatives with the ultimate goal of decreasing unemployment and growing our economy.

Mentorship is key to achieving these goals. Their Facilitators and Service Providers work with clusters of companies to develop world class practices and share their experiences with others in the same region. This approach enables companies to focus on improving quality, speed, cost effectiveness and morale while eliminating waste and improving the value flow. It also helps establish close links with customers and suppliers while improving leadership practices that promote teamwork, participation, continuous learning and flexibility.

Turnaround Solutions

We have over the years been involved in a number of interventions aimed at increasing the productive capacity of different organizations as well as individual enterprises in South Africa. "Turnaround Solutions" is an initiative of the Department of Labour. We have also been involved in assisting communities largely affected by job loss to identify job creation opportunities as well as conduct research to determine the feasibility of such job creation opportunities.

Marketing Strategy

Marketing solutions are tailored for every business and follows the following process:

• Market Opportunity Ananlysis
• Developing Strategic Marketing Programs
• Implementing and Controlling the Strategic Marketing Programs

The methodologies of Porter, McCarthy and Perreault, Boyd and Walker, Ries and Trout, Pierce and Robinson, Wiid and Diggines to name just a few are used in formulating the above programs.

Operations

Productivity solutions (which encompass processes, tools and techniques) are as follows:

• Industrial Engineering Techniques
  • Time Study (direct work measurement and rating)
  • Synthetic Time Standards
  • Method Study
  • Activity Sampling
  • Integrated Business Control (IBC)
  • Just-in-time (JIT)
  • Factory, office and stores layout design and optimisation
  • Materials Handling
  • Inventory Control
  • Production Planning and Control
  • Project Planning and Control
  • Maintenance Management System
  • Productivity Systems (MIS)
  • Ergonomic Assessments (Manufacturing and Office)
  • Theory of Constraints (TOC)

• Performance/workload assessment to achieve the following:

• Staff justification (too many/too few)
• Equipment justification
• Technology justification
• Product justification
• Service justification
• Provide training

• Work study practitioners course
• Time study training course