(BMGI: Amsterdam) --To ensure its team was maximizing the business' performance levels, Graphic Packaging International (GPI), a producer of packaging solutions with 15,000 employees worldwide and annual revenues over €13 billion ($18.3 billion), turned to Breakthrough Management Group International (BMGI) to develop and execute a lean program. BMGI is working with GPI to conduct kaizen events using BMGI's signature SCORE methodology. Three such events have so far resulted in hard cost savings of £175,000 ($290,000) per year.

The focus up until now has been on GPI's manufacturing facility in Bristol, which has an employee base of more than 200 and specializes in packaging solutions for the food and beverage industry. There, GPI's management team worked with BMGI consultants to identify the site's performance issues and then quantify and prioritize opportunities for improvement. The consultants worked with a team of cross-functional employees to implement lean principles, eliminating waste and variation, while ensuring improved customer satisfaction. 

 "BMGI helped us in three critical areas: we dramatically reduced waste and cost; we transformed the speed of our manufacturing processes; and ultimately we improved the experience we are able to offer our customers," says Jeff Goold, GPI's UK site and European manufacturing director. 

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