Our Services

Manufacturing Consulting Services — Caledonia, Hamilton, GTA & Southern Ontario

With over 25 years of hands-on manufacturing leadership, Craig Mannell and Mannell Partners help small and medium-sized manufacturers in Caledonia, Hamilton, Mississauga, the Greater Toronto Area, and across Southern Ontario run leaner, perform better, and grow profitably.

Whether your challenges are on the plant floor, in your supply chain, or within your management team, we bring a targeted, process-first approach directly to your facility. From plant operations and materials management to business strategy and staff performance — every engagement is built around your specific goals.

Our Expertise

Plant Operations

Ideas for operational excellence are just that – ideas. At Mannell Partners, we help you turn your conversations about operational excellence into a reality with measurable and sustainable results.

Our knowledgeable team has many years of experience delivering improvements to plant and service organizations, and we’re ready to help your company do the same. We’ll assist you with…

Standardizing operations to allow for repeat success
Increasing retention and improving labor performance
Streamlining asset utilization and reliability
Ingraining safety and operational discipline procedures in company culture
Implementation of new ERP or CRM systems

With a vast knowledge of technical manufacturing expertise and a long successful track record of leading successful operations, we are ready and able to boost the efficiency and profitability of your plant operations and set you up for long-term success.

Materials Management

Proper management of materials is instrumental to the success of your supply chain. At Mannell Partners, we offer innovative solutions to properly managing your materials to help streamline your business from initial orders to customer delivery.

Your final product depends on reliable materials and a meticulously organized manufacturing structure. After learning the ins and outs of your business and the manufacturing solutions already in place to build your product, our materials management team will design and implement structured manufacturing systems tailored specifically to your company.

In addition to fine-tuning your manufacturing solutions, our team will work closely with your accounting department to ensure that every piece of material is properly tracked and budgeted – all the way from raw materials to the finished product.

After touching base with accounting, the Mannell Partners team will discuss new solutions with your teams, to ensure every possible problem is foreseen and every base is adequately covered.

Staff Performance & Recruitment

Save time, improve quality and maximize productivity with a tailored business strategy plan from Mannell Partners.

As a company, your success depends entirely on your ability to adapt and respond to change. Skillfully managing these abilities is a competitive advantage that many companies have yet to take advantage of. Bringing out the best in current personnel, while making changes when necessary to improve the culture, is the key.

At Mannell Partners, we lead the game in teaching your staff to properly manage change. We look at adaptability as a core capability of your organization, rather than a one-off project or bonus accomplishment. When imparting this training internally, companies often struggle with where and when to begin. This is where Mannell Partners steps in to help our clients determine the best way to structure and operate these crucial internal improvements to their company’s adaptability.

At the learning and analysis stage, we assess the basic issues surrounding internal performance and compare them to your company’s efficiency. Once we have a stronger idea of the problems, challenges and opportunities, we work closely with you to determine the ideal structural changes as well as the necessary tools for recruiting, training and management.

Once the path to improving staff performance is clear, we work closely with your management team to implement strategies to sustain these internal improvements long-term. We continue to provide targeting training and support as required for the company’s continued success.

Customer Retention & Sales Growth

After many years in various manufacturing businesses, our experts at Mannell Partners know the importance of customer retention – and how it can determine the success or failure of a business.

We’ll take a close look at your customer service procedures and current customer retention plan and offer solutions based off of that data. Working with your Sales team, we will identify your most loyal customers and implement highly targeted strategies to encourage them to become advocates.

With a strong user generated content strategy that aims for an emotional attachment with customers, we’ll turn your already loyal customers into lifelong customers. Following the creation of our customer retention strategy, our team will engage in informative conversations and training with your staff. Along with ongoing coaching and support, you can guarantee the continued success of your customer retention strategy for years to come.

Business Assessments

Through meticulous data research and observation, we create an audit of existing operations and work closely with your team to build a process improvement plan that will set you up for long-term success.

Don’t underestimate the value of operational due diligence. At Mannell Partners, our depth of industry experience paired with our long successful track record has established us as one of the top manufacturing consultants serving Ontario’s SME sector.

We offer detailed operational insights and a competitive edge. Our business assessments target potential opportunities and potential challenges – right off the bat, so you can be prepared to tackle anything the industry throws your way. We dive deep into data analytics to find specifics that define a company’s worth and provide you with a footprint analysis, product portfolios, supply chain investigation, a breakdown of production and sourcing scrutiny.

Recognizing a company’s operational performance opens a valuable window of information into its strengths, weaknesses and growth potential. Mannell Partners provides this information through our detailed business assessments.

Business Strategy

Save time, improve quality and maximize productivity with a tailored business strategy plan from Mannell Partners. Allow us to study your current business practices and their results and use the data to create a targeted business strategy that works for you.

You’ll only start to see real change when your business methods align with your business goals – and Mannell Partners can help you get there. By optimizing your strategies and getting the most out of all of your investments, you’ll experience a new level of consistency and efficacy, like never seen before.

Don’t waste time and money working off of inefficient or inconsistent business strategies. Don’t get caught up in the belief that the latest and greatest technology will “patch” the holes in your business. Allow the Mannell Partners Business Strategy Team to design and implement a process-first approach that aligns with your business goals, your business model and your current team capabilities.

Contact us today, to chat about your challenges and hurdles, and let’s create a plant together, to improve your profit, your people and your processes.