Consulting Services
Consulting Services
Our Approach
At Agrahi Consulting, we believe in a structured yet flexible approach to driving impactful results. Our consulting process is built on three foundational phases: Value Stream Mapping, Strategy Development, and Execution. Each phase is designed to ensure that we fully understand your needs, develop a tailored game plan, and implement solutions that deliver lasting improvements.
Value Stream Mapping
The journey begins with Value Stream Mapping, a crucial discovery phase that sets the foundation for our engagement. Over the first phase, we work closely with your core leadership team to thoroughly understand your current processes. This stage is about uncovering inefficiencies, identifying areas for improvement, and gaining a holistic view of your operations. By mapping out the value stream of the target area, we create a visual representation of the current state, helping to pinpoint bottlenecks and opportunities for optimization. This essential step ensures that we have a clear, data-driven understanding of your business, setting the stage for targeted improvements.
Strategy Development
With insights gained from Value Stream Mapping, we move into the Strategy Development phase. This stage is all about crafting a tailored roadmap for your business's success. During this period we collaborate with your team to establish clear goals, define key performance indicators, and identify the necessary resources and timelines for implementation. This phase ensures that everyone is aligned and working towards a common vision. Our strategic planning process is designed to be flexible, allowing us to adapt to changes in your business environment while keeping the focus on achieving your long-term objectives.
Kaizen
The final phase is where the transformation takes place. Under the banner of Kaizen, we move from planning to action. This phase involves a series of targeted Kaizen events, training sessions, and projects led by your local team, all aligned with the overall strategy. Our approach emphasizes continuous improvement, empowering your team to implement changes, monitor progress, and make adjustments as needed. We provide hands-on support and guidance throughout this process, ensuring that improvements are not only implemented but sustained. By fostering a culture of continuous improvement, we help your organization achieve lasting success.
Our Experience
Dwai Choudhury, founder of Agrahi, brings fifteen years of hands-on manufacturing leadership across operations, supply chain, and engineering roles. Key highlights:
- A leading office-furniture manufacturer: As Plant Manager, grew a $20M operation to $70M, then took ownership of the full campus — integrating a separate $35M facility into a single $105M business through the disruption of COVID. Restructured the organization to align resources with strategic goals, improving product launches, quality, and margins.
- Steffes Corporation: Led value stream mapping, 3P facility layout, and kaizen events, driving significant operational improvements.
- Integration & IOT: Piloted IoT capabilities to improve worker efficiency and data-driven decision-making, delivering a 15% increase in labor productivity and a 10% reduction in rework.
He holds an industrial engineering degree and an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
Why Choose Agrahi?
- We teach while we do. Most consultants run the event and hand you a report. We run it with your team — teaching the tool as we apply it — so your people can run the next one without us. That's what converts skeptics into owners.
- We've run the plant, not just advised one. Fifteen years in manufacturing operations, through major growth and integration initiatives. We've lived with the consequences of the decisions we help you make.
- We stay until the gains are real. Improvements that evaporate after the consultant leaves aren't improvements. We measure what changed, build the cadence that holds it, and leave your team owning the result.