SERVICES

OUR OFFER

Interim Management 

  • General Management
  • Department/Functional Management
  • Project Management
  • Customer Relations – Customer Expectation, Contract and Pricing Review
  • Supply Chain end-to-end Optimization
  • Continuous improvement of processes
  • Manufacturing Process Improvement
  • Good Manufacturing Practices
  • Resource Planning
  • Cost Control and Budgeting
  • Internal material flow optimization and automation
  • Digitization
  • Real time production line management
  • Problem Solving
  • Factory Startup and Turnaround

Define and Optimize Business Processes

Strategic Planning 

  • General Management
  • Department/Functional Management
  • Supplier Audits
  • Supplier assessment and/or selection
  • Supplier development plan

Supplier and subcontracting management

New Product Introduction

  • Phase Gate Management aligned with Product Life Cycle
  • Outsourcing
  • Product transfer
  • Processes transfer

Transfer of factory operations / production lines / products

Help local companies to work effectively with Corporations 

  • Local sourcing in Romania
  • Help Romanian companies supplying Corporations
  • Assisting Corporations to work with Romanian supliers
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OUR ENGAGEMENT MODEL

Specialized resources

In the last years the world business has changed dramatically, at a very high pace. This put a high pressure on companies to find new ways of advancing their operations to remain successful. The more complex the economical and technical environment, the more crucial to find and/or have available the right business leaders who Drive Innovation. These business leaders are the ones who realize the transition. 

Engage us in helping your company through a transition, through a crisis or to unlock performance potential.
Engage us if you look for solutions to change, transform or turn-around company, to improve overall business.
Engage us if you look to develop new effective strategies
Engage us for interim management, if one of the senior managers left or not available, and there is no immediate replacement available

Your connection to local suppliers

With pandemic global situation and uncertainties, office work and business trips will change permanently. Companies can discover they can achieve the same results or better with experts like us doing the local job for them.

Either looking to establish new business in west of Romania, or looking to manage supply chain footprint in the area, we are here to help with an effective cost and safer solution. Eliminate extensive and expensive traveling and accommodation costs, meanwhile remain safe, eliminating the risk of getting sick during business trips.

Engage us in local suppliers & subcontractors audits, assessment, development plans
Engage us to turnaround supplier & subcontractors deteriorating performance (delivery / quality / service level).

Produce in Timișoara

Globalization of business was in the last 2 decades the main drive for corporations to establish their footprint. Global footprint secured proper service and support to Global customers. Pandemic creates a new way of thinking and building resilient supply chains. Focus and priorities are to mitigate supply chain disruption by regions, to secure contingency and backup solutions in case of business potential shut down due to Covid19.

If you are looking to expand business and footprint in South-East Europe, consider Timișoara as the main option. Timisoara is located in the western part of Romania, close to Hungarian border, connected through main highways to Central-West Europe.

Engage us in the startup of your business in the Timisoara area and transfer activities to new locations.
Engage us to identify local sourcing options, to develop or optimize supply chain, or to increase supply chain resilience

Agents of change

Local companies in Timisoara might face fast growing opportunities with supply chain relocation. Customers have high expectations with regards quality, delivery and service level. Local companies might face situations when current business processes are not available, not relevant or not robust enough. We are here to help with developing and improving business processes, create a proper resource planning and create a profitable growth plan. Meanwhile keep in focus to create the proper value add to customers, eliminate waste and non-value add activities.

Engage us in turnaround your business .
Engage us to create business processes that create value-add to customers, at expected capabilities and reliability.
Engage us to create a culture of customer oriented employees, understanding customer expectation and customer satisfaction.
Engage us to create a proper process for forecasting, resource planning, cost budgeting and control.
Engage us in developing a proper claim management and control.

OUR APPROACH

Our success derives from the performance of those we help to find faster effective solutions to their challenges, to obtain quickly excellent results

Initial meeting

Understand the overall picture and specific issues​

Problem identification​

Identify the real root cause of the problem or we validate the root cause of the problem described by the client​

Define

Define how to assess the problem and measure performance of the current situation and define how the desired situation looks like and how we will measure progress.

Plan

Prepare plans to reach the desired situation.

Implementation

Answer "what are practical needs to execute the project, to implement it into daily management?"

Support and training

Offer training about relevant and efficient tools that can be used at work, necessary in the implementation and execution of the new process.

Monitoring

Monitor and report project progress

Preparing next step

We report at the end of the project, with lessons learned and look-a-cross

Testimonials

“Angela at Umbra Project was able to support our business effectively and respond exactly as needed, a professional, fast and reliable service that we will certainly use again”.
Neil Edwards, Metcal, UK – February 2021