About Vaz Lopes Group
Who we are
Vaz Lopes Group is a business consulting practice for industrial and technology-driven organizations. We turn strategy into execution by aligning priorities, teams, and operating rhythms. Every engagement is unique to the client, the problem, and the opportunity in front of them.
What changes with us
Every engagement is designed for your context. Typical results include:
- Supply Chain
Higher service levels without excess inventory
Shorter plan-to-deliver and PO cycles
Better OTIF and fewer quality escapes - Operations
Faster decisions with a weekly review rhythm
On-time milestones and visible progress
Lower cost to serve with clearer accountability - People & Capability
Faster time-to-proficiency
Consistent execution across sites and partners
Leaders who coach to clear standards
TRANSFORMATION DELIVERED THROUGH THREE CAPABILITIES
People & Capability
Define roles, build targeted learning paths, and turn skills into consistent on-the-job performance.
Outcomes:
- Faster time-to-proficiency in critical roles
- Consistent execution across sites and partners
- Higher adoption and visible behaviour change tied to results
- leaders who coach to clear standards.
How we work:
- Role frameworks. Clarify what great looks like with competency models and standards for each role.
- On-the-job enablement. Design practice into the work, use leader coaching, and give timely feedback so skills transfer.
- Learning that sticks. Sequence learning with spaced practice and reinforcement to beat the forgetting curve.
- Measure what matters. Track time-to-proficiency and adoption, then evidence behaviour and business impact.
Operations
Install a simple operating system for delivery. Clear decision roles, a weekly metrics review, and a small set of trusted KPIs.
Outcomes:
- Decisions made faster, fewer escalations
- Issues closed weekly, not left to drift
- Milestones hit on time with visible progress
How we work
- Map decision roles with so everyone knows who recommends, who has input, who decides, and who executes.
- Run a 30-minute Weekly Business Review. Same metrics, same owners, actions logged and followed up.
- Set team OKRs that link goals to measurable results. Review progress against KPIs in the WBR.
- Instrument the loop. Track decision lead time, milestone hit rate, and an action burndown so trends are visible and accountable.
Supply Chain
Design and run an end to end supply chain that is resilient, fast, and cost effective.
Outcomes:
- Higher service levels without excess inventory, reflected in better OTIF
- Shorter plan to deliver and PO cycle times
- Lower cost to serve and clearer risk posture through visibility and risk controls
How we work:
- Plan as one using Integrated Business Planning to align demand, supply, and finance.
- Increase visibility with a control-tower approach so exceptions surface early and actions happen faster.
- Design the supplier base for resilience with qualification, dual sourcing where it reduces risk, and regionalisation when it improves continuity.
- Measure what matters with standard KPIs such as OTIF and PO cycle time, reviewed on a fixed cadence.