Juice-Perfect, a California-based juice manufacturing company

  Company Background Juice-Perfect, a California-based juice manufacturing company, has 6 manufacturing plants around the US that produce various sizes and flavor of juices and smoothies. In recent years, management noticed that Juice-Perfect’s market share has been decreasing due to its inability to sustain the level of expectations and market demands. A group of internal analysts conducted a thorough investigation of the root causes of the performance decline and published a report that identified problems in the production planning of Juice-Perfect’s manufacturing operations as the critical factors. In response, leadership at the company decided to contract a team to help identify improvement areas in the production planning and propose a plan to reform the manufacturing processes across all plants. Management has decided to pilot the changes on the packaging lines only at one of the plants (that is the worst performing plant).