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Webinar - Operational excellence in the food industry
Operational excellence in the agri-food industry
A lot of the solutions proposed to improve operational excellence are aimed at the manufacturing industry. The specific constraints of the food industry are too often ignored.
Philip Marris presents how to adapt classical Operational Excellence to this industry, perspective supported by numerous missions in this industry over the past 10 years.
This webinar is in French and addresses the vibrant French food industry and its half a million employees that make a significant contribution to the country’s economy.
Dates & Information
Date: Thursday 10th of July 2025
Hour : 12:30pm to 1:30pm (CET or UTC+1)
Free online webinar, in French.
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The fact that, in the majority of cases, the products must remain fresh has historically forced these businesses to ensure good, rapid flow through their processes. The food in most cases must get to the sales point quickly and obviously before the sell-by date. So, there are already some good cultural flow reflexes.
The factory type is nearly always a “V-Plant” with many more references of finished goods as there are different types of raw material. The classic pull flow control mechanisms such as Kanban will often be inapplicable. Especially for those industries that own the raw material (be it the apple trees or herds of cows) they are inexorably in a “push environment where the challenge is to get the best margin from a given and uncontrollable quantity of incoming material.
The material yield (kilos sold / kilos incoming) is a key performance factor and is not easy to master in many cases because of the variability of the raw material (example of percentage of fat in beef).
In many environments there are change-over constraints (to switch from one product to another on a machine) and yet the solutions such as SMED are not very widely mastered. For example, one of the key steps of cleaning the equipment is often suboptimal. It is often possible to cheaply modify machines to make them easier and faster to clean.
In this webinar Philip Marris, with his wide-ranging experience of hundreds of different production environments and the experienced gained by Marris Consulting in the food industry shares his lessons learned and his recommendations.
About Philip Marris
Philip started his Theory Of Constraints journey in 1986 when he joined Creative Output and worked with Eliyahu Goldratt, the founder of TOC and author of the worldwide bestseller “The Goal”. In 1994 he wrote a bestselling TOC textbook in French.
He is also a recognized Lean expert and combines Lean (Manufacturing/Engineering/Management) with TOC. He founded Marris Consulting based in Paris France in 2005.
Half their business is outside of France in Europe and the rest of the world. He is bilingual and bi-cultural French/English. He is very active in the TOC community. He has implemented TOC over 360 times in over 30 countries. His clients include: Altho Brets, Air France, ArcelorMittal, Armée de l’Air et de l’Espace, Ariane Group, Cargill, Charalambides Christis, Danone, Embraer, Espri Restauration, GSK, Heineken, LDC, Lili’s Brownies, Louis Dreyfus, Malteries Soufflet, McDonald's, Procter & Gamble, Pyrex, Rolex, Safran, Siemens, SNCF, SKF, Thales and Yves Rocher, Zodiac Aerospace.
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About Marris Consulting
Marris Consulting is an industry consulting and training company specialized in the Theory of Constraints (ToC) and Critical Chain Project Management. We focus on improving the performance of manufacturing and process industries by using Constraints Management combined with Lean and Six Sigma. To boost project performance, we also use Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM), which we sometimes combine with Lean Engineering. Our 2-day performance audits, our performance consulting services and our project management, Lean, ToC & CCPM training by our industry consultants offer a wide range of solutions to help our clients around the world reach the highest possible levels of performance.