Woeppel, Mark - TOC Tapped to Accelerate Gulf of Mexico Cleanup

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About this Conference Video: TOC was called in for what may be the worst environmental disaster in the USA. BP’s Deepwater Horizon platform exploded, taking 11 lives and sending oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. In June 2010, Pinnacle Strategies was called upon by BP to rapidly improve supply chain availability and decontamination efforts. Less than 48 hours after the initial inquiry, they began a marathon of visits across North America and Europe that led to an almost instant doubling, tripling, and in one case 10 fold increase, of manufacturing capacity for boom, skimmers, and absorbents. Later, after the well was capped, Pinnacle Strategies led improvement activities at decontamination sites across five states where thousands of boats, ships, and rigs were decontaminated before returning to their normal service. In this presentation, Mark Woeppel describes the Theory of Constraints steps used to achieve the extraordinary increases in capacity by improving bottlenecks at dozens of factories, ensuring that supply never constrained the fight against the oil spill. He also describes how they accelerated the cleaning of contaminated vessels saving more than $700 million by identifying key measurements and planning the bottleneck into the operation.

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