Business and management consultancy and related services

Tender description

The Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service helps deliver a high profile programme for SE that helps manufacturing business across Scotland improve their competitiveness. This programme has an excellent market reputation and SE are keen to continue delivery in a sector that is important to exports and economic growth. This consultancy framework will be used to appoint consultants to deliver Operational Management, Lean consultancy and Six Sigma expertise to supplement and enhance the offering to manufacturing businesses from the Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service (SMAS). Scottish Enterprise wishes to appoint associates to 7 different lots to deliver support for the next 3 years with the option to extend for up to 1 further year. The total estimated number of support days per year for the Lean Manufacturing lot is 100 days. It is anticipated up to 2 SMAS associates will be appointed to this lot. Tools and techniques that you should be familiar with are listed below: 5S; Team Building; Customer Value; Pull; Flow; Layout; Lean Awareness — 7 Wastes; Measuring Performance. Please note, the value detailed below is the estimated framework value for 4 years. The total estimated number of support days per year for the Lean Six Sigma lot is 120 days. It is anticipated up to 2 SMAS associates will be appointed to this lot. Projects will be delivered within a 6 Sigma structure and green belt. The associate appointed should be able to train candidates up to a minimum of Green Belt standard and to a recognised accreditation process. The following specific experience is required: 6 Sigma training; Statistical techniques and analysis; 6 sigma project delivery; Mini-TAB or equivalent software application; DMAIC Approach; Lean Six Sigma approach — how this differs from pure Six Sigma. Please note, the value detailed below is the estimated framework value for 4 years. The total estimated number of support days per year for the Quality lot is 50 days. It is anticipated up to 2 SMAS associates will be appointed to this lot. Tools and techniques that should be familiar are listed below: Gap Analysis; Quality Management Systems; FMEA; Problem Solving Tools; TQM; SPC; VOC; Quality Function Deployment. Please note, the value detailed below is the estimated framework value for 4 years. The total estimated number of support days per year for the Process Mapping/VSM lot is 80 days. It is anticipated up to 2 SMAS associates will be appointed to this lot. Tools and techniques that you should be familiar with are listed below: Process Mapping; Lean Manufacturing; Change Management; Value Stream Mapping; Future State Modelling; Benefit Analysis. Please note, the value detailed below is the estimated framework value for 4 years. The total estimated number of support days per year for the Manufacturing Engineering Support lot is 50 days. It is anticipated up to 2 SMAS associates will be appointed to this lot. Tools and techniques that you should be familiar with are listed below: New Product Development; Process Re-engineering; New Product Introduction; Change Management; Modelling, Design and Analysis; Asset Care. Please note, the value detailed below is the estimated framework value for 4 years. The total estimated number of support days per year for the Strategic Supply Chain Development lot is 50 days. It is anticipated up to 2 SMAS associates will be appointed to this lot. Tools and techniques that should be familiar are listed below, not all are required but a sound understanding of concepts of these would be useful: Contractual management; Supplier value enhancement strategy; Demand Management; Supply chain management awareness; Inventory Management; Supply chain mapping with FMEA; Sales and operations planning; Supply chain risk and opportunity assessment; Supplier performance management; Supply chain strategy development; Supplier relationship evaluation; Supply issue management process. Please note, the value detailed below is the estimated framework value for 4 years. The total estimated number of support days per year for the ERP/MRP lot is 30 days. It is anticipated 1 single SMAS associate will be appointed to this lot. Tools and techniques that you should be familiar with are listed below: Implementing MRP/ERP systems; Business Management Processes; Tailoring Systems to Business Needs; Dashboards; Selecting Appropriate Systems; Developing Business Interfaces; Exception Reporting. Please note, the value detailed below is the estimated framework value for 4 years.