Kaizen Institute - Success Story
Agriculture - Viticulture
Leaders KAIZEN™, Flow Management, Productive Maintenance
Client Profile
A large wine manufacturer in Romania.
Improvement Potential
- Viticulture processes, wine making and bottling are controlled by the current management technology
- Current management technology is not oriented towards Continuous Improvement of process performance and the previous KAIZEN™ approach has not been further developed during the past 3 years
- Marketing and production strategies are not correlated

Root Causes
- 82 improvement opportunities identified for working methods, leadership, technology, expertise and staff management
- Leadership improvement through employees’ motivation, creating an organisational culture, optimal management of resources and better communication
- Improving working methods (better quality, processes and products)
- Improving the efficiency of processes (logistics, wine making)
- Improving the skills and involvement of the employees
- Improving the OEE and correlating performance

Our Approach
- Implementation of the KAIZEN™ Change Model
- KAIZEN™ Leadership training for Top Management
- Productive Maintenance in order to maintain technology performance of equipment
- Quality Management and Flow Management to improve process quality and efficiency at all levels of the organization
- Continuous training program in project management , problem solving and “training on the job”

Key Results
- An increase of more than a half a million Euro revenue within two years