Helping Manufacturers Maximize Efficiency, Productivity, and Peace of Mind

 

Dorval Management Associates, Inc. (DMA) is a boutique business consulting firm that has helped owners in the manufacturing industry with the following:

 

• Find free time to better enjoy life
• Improve the bottom line
• Growth
• Family businesses with internal conflict
• Succession planning and exit strategy
• Ensure gross profit exceeds expenses so a profit is realized

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We believe one of the most important metrics in business is gross profit margin. If a company does not have a high enough gross profit, it cannot pay its expenses and will lose money. Manufacturers as a whole sometimes have a difficult time costing their products accurately because they do not calculate their indirect manufacturing costs like rent, depreciation, equipment repair costs, supervisor labor etc. properly. So when they price their products using the lower cost, they are not achieving the gross profit margin they projected.

 

DMA has helped many manufacturers breakdown these indirect costs and correctly add them to the costing of their products. This affords the manufacturer to properly price their products and actually realize their targeted gross profit margin.

 

Are you a type-A personality? A go-getter who wants the job done right the first time? Are you the hands-on guy/gal that runs every aspect of his/her business? – (Ending up with no time for anything but business). Consumed 24/7?  Mouse-on-the-wheel? YOUR company, in decent shape, BUT still not making the money you know it can make?

 

Sound familiar? DMA can help, we are committed to:

 

• Developing clear business goals
• Designing and implementing an effective organizational structure (Chain of Command) based on your business goals
• Building empowered coordinated teams
• Improving company morale and getting employees to think like owners by developing and implementing an effective incentive plan

 

DMA reviews, customizes, and implements sound business policies and processes in order to enhance operating efficiencies and profitability for the company - Spending too much time in meetings (where minutes are taken and hours are lost)? Left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing. We will organize processes and procedures that work and rid the company of “stuff” that is done because “we always did it that way”.

 

Some of the policies, processes, and procedures we review, organize and customize are:

 

• Goal setting and budget development
• Cash management including collections
• Indirect costs and labor burden determination
• Existing pricing methods with gross margin determination
• Management techniques and levels of delegation and involvement
• Current marketing efforts
  
  

We are a boutique business consulting firm that will make a lasting positive impact on your business and your life.