Client Impact
Examples of measurable operating improvements across healthcare, laboratory, distribution, and food businesses.
Overall forecast accuracy after rebuilding a multi-location revenue model
Data-processing speed using the laboratory's existing software environment
Improvement in material retrieval and shipping speed
Production growth without increasing payroll or staff hours
Reduction in production waste through menu, purchasing, and production changes
Measurable improvements across different operating environments.
The operating problem determines the work. Sometimes that means rebuilding a forecast, redesigning a workflow, improving production economics, or creating a system that did not exist before.
Aubrenne focuses on changes that improve how the business performs without adding unnecessary labor, technology, or complexity.
Rebuilding a multi-location revenue forecast
A recurring monthly revenue forecast required significant manager involvement across multiple locations while still producing inconsistent results.
Aubrenne rebuilt the forecasting methodology using regression analysis, variable fitting, and historical performance data. The revised model reduced mean absolute percentage error by approximately 20% compared with the previous forecasting process and achieved approximately 97% overall forecast accuracy.
The new approach also reduced the recurring management labor required to prepare and maintain the forecast, generating more than $20,000 in estimated annual staff-time savings.
Doubling processing speed without adding new software
Sample-processing workflows were being slowed by repetitive data entry and periods of underused staff capacity between processing steps.
Aubrenne redesigned the workflow to improve task sequencing, make better use of processing downtime, and remove unnecessary delays. A workaround within the laboratory's existing software environment accelerated the data-entry portion of the process without requiring a separate IT project.
The redesigned process approximately doubled data-processing speed without additional software, outside development, or new technology expense.
Building a custom warehouse location system
The warehouse lacked a consistent system for identifying shelves, storage locations, and material positions, creating unnecessary friction in material retrieval and shipping.
Aubrenne designed the location architecture and numbering convention, built a custom application to record and label warehouse positions, trained staff on both the software and location logic, and supported implementation across the operation.
The completed system standardized material location and improved retrieval and shipping speed by approximately 40%.
Expanding production capacity without increasing payroll
The bakery was approaching the limits of its existing production capacity, but adding employees would have increased payroll without addressing the underlying constraints in production.
Aubrenne identified production inefficiencies and sources of waste, then guided the owner through equipment and capital investment decisions designed to increase output using the existing team.
The resulting production changes allowed the business to grow output by approximately 1.5x without increasing payroll or total staff hours.
Reducing waste and improving product economics
High ingredient costs, low-margin menu items, purchasing decisions, advance-order workflows, and inconsistent production targets were creating unnecessary cost and waste.
Aubrenne refined the menu around product economics, identified new food vendors, upgraded POS workflows for wholesale and advance orders, and established production targets that better aligned output with demand.
The changes reduced production waste by approximately 34% and lowered monthly COGS and preparation labor by approximately $3,000.
Bring us the operating problem.
Aubrenne works with small and growing businesses on problems involving profitability, workflows, systems, staffing, reporting, customer experience, and implementation.