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Anchor Resource Management is a hands-on, professional consulting firm that provides services to companies ranging from implementing lean operational improvements to taking drastic measures to prevent potential economic collapse.
We are a team, averaging over 25 years of experience, that has a passion for implementing change.
With a team of the most respected turnaround and operational professionals, we have developed a proven, self-funding method called The Anchor Way that helps companies become market leaders.
Anchor has successfully deployed The Anchor Way in over 300 engagements, helping our clients realize hundreds of millions in savings with a 300% average rate of return on investment.
This four-step method is a logical and orderly approach that implements quick returns, involves low risk, contains simple solutions, gains employee support, and is customer focused. As a result of these benefits, our clients have referred to this approach as being a self-funding method.
The Anchor Way goes beyond lean manufacturing by helping companies improve cost and quality, get to market faster, and enhance culture.
Anchor provides a wide range of professional services:
Our goal is to deliver innovative, state-of-the-art solutions that help our clients excel in today's competitive business environment while meeting short and long-term needs.
This focus allows Anchor to quickly identify cost-effective solutions capable of providing immediate results and return on investment.
Anchor professionals are committed to active, hands-on involvement in all phases of analysis, planning, implementation, and project management.
Anchor professionals have a broad range of skills in numerous industries, including the following:
Our experience includes the following:
Anchor has a proven track record of helping clients reduce costs, improve operations, and gain a competitive advantage. We have assisted our clients in realizing a wide range of benefits, including:
Anchor provides due diligence support for acquisitions from an operations perspective. Our professionals are well experienced in performing analyses to determine the potential of manufacturing companies and developing sound recommendations for the buyers. We have extensive experience in helping with the post-acquisition process to ensure the outcome is as expected.
Anchor's professionals have been successful in numerous business turnarounds and restructurings over the past twenty years in a wide range of industries. We have successfully worked in both union and non-union shops and small, privately held to large, public companies. Our skills include:
Anchor's professionals have successfully developed and implemented plans for new start-ups for numerous industries. This experience includes:
Anchor is very experienced in lean manufacturing principles and applies them to all phases of our work.
Anchor firmly believes the first step of any operations improvement program begins with assessing the current situation and developing a plan of action based on the findings of the assessment. This step helps to eliminate or minimize the mistakes that could be made during the improvement program. Mistakes made during implementation are usually costly in both capital and time, but many problems can be avoided by analyzing and planning before taking action. Anchor uses many techniques during this phase:
Anchor can help you optimize your operations to meet your strategic objectives. Anchor helps dramatically redesign manufacturing and operating processes to achieve substantial productivity gains and cost savings. We use a methodical approach for such conversions in order to maximize your return on investment and minimize any negative cash flow impact.
Anchor provides experienced professionals to assist with your short-term needs. These interim managers and executives can help companies in times of change or transition, while implementing new techniques and methods, or while the client is determining their long-term management needs. Anchor is able to provide:
Anchor helps its clients get the most from their suppliers in terms of cost, quality, delivery, and availability of inventory. We understand the value of good suppliers and the impact they can have on your ability to meet your customers' expectations. Anchor doesn't believe in placing unrealistic demands on suppliers, because of the long-term impact it will have on their ability to deliver quality product at the cost and delivery level needed. Critical to a supplier's ability to produce quality parts on time and at the lowest possible price is its fiscal well-being. In most cases, that well-being can be achieved by eliminating wasteful activities from their operations. We believe there is always room for improvement and we offer the following services to assist:
Anchor utilizes its experienced professionals to help its clients realize greater enterprise value when their goal is to exit the business. We have successfully helped our clients increase EBITDA during the stage leading up to the sale, which has greatly enhanced the total value received by our clients. Some of the techniques we have used include:
Anchor's quality professionals have a broad range of experience, including:
Managing Partner - investment, acquisitions, due diligence, strategy, turnaround and restructuring, organizational development, business development, operations consulting, startup and launch.
Dan Ruskin was the former leader and entity principal of Plante & Moran AFME (PMAFME) Management Consulting and Restructuring practice. Dan joined AFME in 1990, shortly after the company's founding, to expand its industrial and manufacturing engineering capabilities. He has worked at many different levels in the company, from a project engineer to CEO and owner. Dan's strengths evolved into building strong teams that can help clients meet their goals and enhance their profitability. Dan has also expanded client's partnerships with customers and suppliers. He has played a key role in Anchor's client's successes, leading in strategic planning, lean design and implementation, due diligence, crisis management, recapitalization, private equity, and working with lenders.
Dan has participated in over 300 successful engagements and has led projects at Dell, Caterpillar, The Carlyle Group, Alix Partners, GM, Delphi, Nissan, Navistar International, Volkswagen, Metaldyne, GE, Dow Chemical, CIT, Wachovia, PNC, BOA, JCI, Lear, Roush Racing, Ford, Volvo, TRW, and Teledyne Corporation.
Dan's background is in the aerospace, automotive, and commercial products industries. He served on the corporate production engineering management team at B F Goodrich / Rohr Industries and was an Industrial Engineer with the Teledyne Corporation. Dan founded Tennessee Financial Systems, a distributor of software for financial institutions and manufacturers, and served as its President and CEO.
Professional Affiliations and Certifications:
Managing Partner - consulting, distribution and logistics, turnarounds, lean manufacturing, manufacturing transitions, administration.
Don Weathers is a former consulting manager with the Restructuring and Operations Improvement practice of Plante and Moran AFME, PLLC. Prior to joining Plante & Moran AFME, Don was a managing principal with Steep Rock Associates, a management consulting firm with offices in Connecticut and Tennessee. Prior to that, he held executive level positions with AFME, Inc., Tridon Industries, a tier-one automotive supplier, and Textron Aerostructures, a supplier of large airframe structures to the defense and commercial aircraft industries.
His background includes extensive experience in turnarounds and restructurings, distribution and logistics, business development, materials management, lean manufacturing, systems development and implementation, personnel development, supplier development, plant consolidations and relocations, and others. Don has worked at numerous levels ranging from shop floor management to executive level positions. His experience consists of companies in aerospace, automotive, heavy truck, appliance, metal forming, machining, injection molding, remanufacturing, textile, and others in both consulting and full-time positions. Some of the companies include Textron, Tridon, Federal Mogul, Peregrine, Dow Chemical, Frigidaire, Alix Partners, TMB Industries, Imperial Group, and others.
Don's educational background includes a BS degree from Athens State College in Athens, Alabama and an MBA from the Jack C. Massey School of Business at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. He is APICS certified at the CPIM level and a Certified Exit Planning Advisor by the Exit Planning Institute. Don is a former president of the Tennessee Chapter of the Turnaround Management Association where he served from 2006-08. He also serves as an elected board member of the Wilson County School System, and is on the Board of Trustees for the Tennessee Unemployment Compensation Trust.
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