Interim Management for Manufacturers

Hands-on leadership.

Executive-level operators.

Real results.

When execution is slipping, capacity is tight, or the organization is stretched thin, you don’t always need a full-time hire — you need proven leadership now.

Altemir Consulting provides interim management support to help manufacturers stabilize operations, improve performance, and hit critical objectives.  Our experienced operating leaders step into your environment and drive outcomes directly, working alongside your team at your site.

This is not advisory-only consulting. It’s hands-on management support built for situations where speed, accountability, and execution matter.

When Interim Management Makes Sense

Interim management is ideal when you need to:

• Temporarily backfill a key leadership position

• Accelerate improvement initiatives without disrupting daily operations

• Recover from missed shipments, quality issues, or customer escalations

• Rebuild planning discipline and stabilize schedules

• Prepare for growth, audits, integration, or operational transition

• Add experienced leadership without long recruiting lead times

What You Get

We are embedded within your team, providing leadership presence, operational direction, and decision-making support.

Fast Ramp-Up

Our managers have deep experience in manufacturing and warehouse environments and know how to quickly assess realities, prioritize, and act.

Measurable Outcomes

We focus on improvements that show up where they matter:  on-time delivery, lead time, productivity, inventory accuracy, cost, and quality.

Functional Areas We Support

General Management

When performance is slipping, priorities are competing, or leadership bandwidth is stretched thin, you need someone who can run the operation, not just recommend changes.

Altemir provides fractional Plant Manager, COO, and VP-level operational leadership to bring structure, accountability, and momentum — fast.  We step in to align priorities, lead execution across departments, and drive measurable improvement in safety, delivery, productivity, cost, and quality.

Typical focus areas include:

• • Plant leadership (daily/weekly execution rhythms, KPI ownership)

  • Organizational optimization and clarity

  • Backlog recovery and customer confidence rebuilding

  • Capacity planning and constraint management

  • Turnaround management during transitions, growth, or disruption

  • Performance improvement tied to real operational metrics

  • Bilingual Latin America (LATAM) leadership and support

Manufacturing Leadership

We help stabilize and improve shop floor performance through practical operating discipline.

Typical focus areas include:

• Daily management

• Bottleneck reduction and throughput improvement

• Labor planning and capacity alignment

• Schedule adherence and executional stability

• Standard procedures and problem-solving

• OEE/downtime reduction and reliability

Purchasing & Supply Chain

We strengthen purchasing execution to avoid material shortage disruptions and schedule delays.

Typical focus areas include:

• Supplier management

• Purchasing process improvement and prioritization

• Inventory optimization (min/max, reorder points, safety stock, etc.)

• Material availability triage for raw material-constrained builds

• Risk mitigation for single-source and long-lead components

• MRP planning improvements, including data remediation and optimization

• Kanban or VMI lean material management implementation

Inventory Management

We improve inventory accuracy and material control so planning can be trusted again.

Typical focus areas include:

• Inventory control and accuracy improvement

• Physical counting strategy and execution

• Root cause correction for systemic inventory errors

• Inventory optimization (min/max, reorder points, safety stock, etc.)

• Excess & obsolete reduction

• Improved material traceability and location control

Warehouse Operations

We stabilize warehouse execution to eliminate production shortages and shipment delays.

Typical focus areas include:

• Receiving, put-away, and picking performance

• Staging discipline for production and shipping

• Physical layout and flow improvement

• Training and standard procedures

• Inventory location strategy and slotting logic

• Shipping performance and documentation consistency

SIOP (Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning)

We establish S&OP/SIOP leadership and alignment across sales, operations, and supply chain.

Typical focus areas include:

• Creating a realistic demand plan (not wishful thinking)

• Aligning capacity, materials, and delivery commitments

• Stabilizing the master schedule and controlling volatility

• Defining executive decision points and escalation triggers

• Improving and simplifying forecasts and cross-functional visibility

• Turning strategic plans into execution simply and practically — not a series of monthly meetings

Engineering Change Management

We help moderate engineering changes so that product design improvements won’t destabilize production.

Typical focus areas include:

• ECO/ECR workflow stabilization and governance

• Priority alignment between engineering and operations

• Change impact assessment (materials, routings, inventory, suppliers)

• Document control discipline and ERP master data alignment

• Reducing “silent changes” that create scrap and rework

• Engineering throughput improvement without compromising quality

Quality Assurance & Regulatory Compliance

We provide experienced quality assurance leadership to restore control and confidence—internally and with customers.

Typical focus areas include:

• Corrective action leadership (RCCA/CAPA)

• Audit readiness and response support

• Nonconformance control and MRB discipline

• Supplier quality management and containment

• Documentation rigor and traceability expectations

• Building practical quality systems that work in production