Cut down on manufacturing costs and turn inefficiencies into real productivity. Our high-performance operations consultancy uncovers constraints and delivers remarkable data-driven gains without the need for capital expenditure as part of our cost savings services.
Potential reimagined
Increasingly competitive markets and ever demanding business conditions mean that manufacturers are looking for ways to reduce costs, boost efficiency and improve profitability.
During an initial assessment, our zero-loss approach shows the full magnitude of potential cost saving opportunities. These often reveal remarkable potential gains, far larger than what was previously thought possible.
In the following launch phase, our consultants work with your teams to recover the value revealed during the initial scan. The causes of the largest losses are systematically targeted with actions implemented to reduce and eliminate weak points.
We consistently help manufacturers reduce materials costs by 10-20%, alongside labor costs which lead to 20-40% improvements in efficiency. Working capital and utilities costs are also effectively lowered, leading to direct financial savings as well as further clarity for the shop floor and team leaders.
Explore our cost-savings hub for more insights into how we drive sustainable cost savings programs.
Blending insight and instinct
To deliver rapid, remarkable, and long-lasting productivity gains, we combine a proven process with our time-served expertise and embedded team of engineers, scientists and specialists. Alongside technically and tactically identifying opportunities, our project management experience allows us to make fundamental changes to your organization in a matter of weeks helping to meet cost savings goals.
2 weeks
We quickly assess the scale of opportunity in your business – working closely with your team to understand the existing barriers and limits to performance through an Opportunity Scan.
2-3 months
As part of a pilot project, we will demonstrate just how much potential exists. We deeply embed ourselves into your workforce, forming a small team with a cross-section of your organization.
2-9 months
Using our results-focused methodology, we redefine possible to deliver remarkable results that impact the bottom line. Often seen in a matter of weeks, these tangible and far-reaching improvements will be based on your unique needs, and our team will support the wider organization through the change process.
Beyond Chartwell
By achieving sustainable results and implementing impactful solutions, our interventions are designed to remain effective long after the project or deployment is complete. But much of this depends on your team, and their ability to contribute to lasting improvement. As a result, we have developed a series of tailored workshops, toolkits and methodologies, which help you learn our approach, overcome constraints, and deliver improvements without us being on site.
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FAQs
Explore frequently asked questions for Chartwell’s cost savings solution.
Save Manufacturing Costs with Chartwell
A cost savings project at Chartwell identifies where value is being lost in your operation and then recovers it through targeted actions that reduce cost and improve profitability without relying on major capital expenditure.
Chartwell targets multiple levers: materials cost, labor cost/efficiency, working capital (inventory), and utilities costs, translating operational improvement into direct financial savings.
Not necessarily. Chartwell’s cost savings work delivers remarkable data‑driven gains without the need for capital expenditure, by optimizing performance within existing assets and systems.
Yes. Chartwell’s methodology is designed to reduce costs regardless of sector or site, tailoring the work to your process realities whether they are continuous, batch, discrete, or hybrid operations.
Chartwell consistently helps manufacturers reduce materials costs by 10–20% and achieve 20–40% efficiency improvements linked to labor, with working capital and utilities costs also reduced.
The work is designed to remain effective beyond deployment by establishing practical performance routines, visibility tools, and coaching so the team can hold the gains and keep improving. Chartwell also offers workshops and toolkits to build capability.
What a Chartwell cost savings project looks like
Chartwell’s “zero‑loss” approach is an initial assessment designed to reveal the full magnitude of cost-saving opportunities — often larger than teams expect — by systematically surfacing where losses occur. This is determined as part of the Chartwell Opportunity Scan.
Chartwell’s delivery is typically phased: ~2 weeks to assess as part of the Chartwell Opportunity Scan, 2–3 months to demonstrate results via a pilot, and 2–9 months to redefine performance at scale depending on your scope and needs.
Chartwell rapidly assesses the scale of opportunity by working closely with your team to identify the barriers and limits to performance as part of the Chartwell Opportunity Scan, so you get a clear view of the constraint, the losses, why opportunity exists and the fastest path to results.
Chartwell demonstrates what’s possible by embedding into the workforce and forming a small cross-functional rapid results team (RRT). The RRT prove the gains in live operations so the wider rollout is grounded in real results, not theory.
Using a results‑focused methodology, Chartwell delivers tangible improvements, often seen in weeks, and supports the wider organization through the change process.
The intent is the opposite: improve performance while production continues. The team works in the reality of day-to-day operations, implementing changes in a controlled way so improvements are delivered without unnecessary disruption. This is vital as we are often supporting our clients with the their most urgent challenges, and therefore need to manage continued customer delivery as well as significant change.
A committed cross-functional core team and access to operational data and daily realities. Sustainable improvement depends on your team’s ability to adopt routines and drive the changes forward. Chartwell builds that capability as part of our improvement projects.