The company A leader in the parts manufacturing in the heavy industry. The problem The company manufacturing custom parts needed to reduce its response time of requests for quotations because of the shift in the market that made its customers more and more demanding. Because of the custom aspect of the business, the quotations had to [...]
The company Confidential The problem During the negotiation of their collective agreement, employees had requests for modification of the salary scale and its operation rules. The employer had goals of satisfaction of employees and financial constraints. The approach MELIORE developed a salary scale respecting the employees’ request, and added a few levels of details. This grid [...]
The company A Quebec leader in the manufacturing of mechanical welded parts The problem The company was looking for some simple methods to plan its production and control its costs. The plant was manufacturing in very small series, with few computerized tools, and the stock-outs were frequent. The approach MELIORE has produced a very simple management [...]
The company One of the 10 largest cities in the province of Quebec The problem The city conducts multiple tenders with weighting each year. The selection of the winning supplier does not always correspond with the intuition of managers, or at least, managers have doubts about the mathematical rigor of the process. The approach MELIORE reviewed [...]
The company A leader in the manufacturing of metal parts in the environmental industry The problem The company faced with strong growth wanted to change its floor plan layout in order to plan an expansion of its facility in the next few years. The approach Before changing the layout, MELIORE proceeded with a discrete-event simulation in [...]
The company One of the largest Canadian cities for its Purchasing Department. The problem The city wanted to evaluate several suppliers of software solutions for the management of the building permits. Their concerns were at the level of the involvement of users in the process of selection of the winner of the tender, which is subject [...]