Author: Mark Phelps

The technology that helped build a fabrication business can eventually bury it in complexity. The next stage of profitable growth requires a better way to judge every investment.

Two 40-square-foot kitchens can consume very different amounts of capacity and create very different economic results. Square feet is useful for estimating material and volume, but not as the operating goal.

Throughput Accounting gives operating leaders a fast financial language for deciding what to schedule, where to improve, and whether added sales will produce added profit.

Custom fabrication is variable by nature, but the business does not have to be chaotic. Synchronous Flow gives sales, project management, production, installation, and leadership one operating logic.

Financial statements report results; Throughput Accounting helps managers understand how operating decisions create those results.

Kaplan Consulting and Synchronous Solutions are distinct companies with overlapping and complementary capabilities—and a joint offering designed to remove the forced choice between them.

Operational flow becomes more durable when managers have the planning, leadership, and accountability capabilities to sustain it.

StoneSync Pro combines two companies and two teams in a coordinated program designed to create more value than an either-or choice.

Global optimization requires judging every tool and partner by its contribution to the enterprise goal.

Operational, financial, and leadership problems are often different views of the same system condition.