Demand & stock
How much should we make and hold next month?
Seasonal forecasts with their error shown, and reorder points that keep you out of stock-outs without tying up cash.
Operations consulting · Pretoria
Find where your operation loses time, stock and cash — and fix it.
Takt is an operations consultancy. We start from the data your business already captures, measure where the losses are, rank them by what they cost you, and put the fixes in place.
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What we improve
Four places where most operations quietly lose money.
Production & quality
Where does the line lose output?
OEE split into availability, speed and quality losses, plus quality records you can trace and audit.
Cost & margin
What does each product really cost us?
True cost per product and customer, so pricing and product-mix decisions rest on numbers, not averages.
Cash
Where is our cash tied up?
Debtors by risk and age, and ordering that takes the cash position into account.
How it works
Measure first. Fix what is worth fixing.
Data audit
We look at what you already capture — sales, stock, production and accounts — check its quality, and set a day-one baseline of what things cost today.
Opportunity map
Every improvement we find, ranked by the money it is worth to you. You decide what goes ahead.
Build
The fix itself: a process change, a forecast, an automated report, or a simple capture form for what isn't recorded yet. Built on top of your systems, not instead of them.
Decision support
We keep the numbers honest month to month and help you act on them, measured against the baseline.
The audit stands on its own. Its findings decide whether anything else is worth doing.
Why Takt
Engineering, not just reporting.
The industrial-engineering toolkit
Takt time, OEE, statistical process control and forecasting, applied to your floor and your books, not left in a report.
On top of what you already have
No new ERP and no rip-and-replace. We work from the systems and exports you already use.
Value you can measure
Every recommendation states what it is worth, measured against the day-one baseline, so you can see whether it paid.
Your data, protected
Client data is handled under a written data agreement. It is encrypted, kept apart from every other client's data, and returned or deleted when the project ends. Access is limited to the people who need it.
Takt time is the pace an operation has to keep to meet demand. Most businesses never measure it. They feel it when they fall behind.
About
Takt Operations Solutions was founded in 2026 by Winand Carstens, an industrial engineer based in Pretoria.
Takt brings the methods of industrial engineering together with practical data tools, for businesses that have outgrown spreadsheets but don't need a large consulting firm.
Winand Carstens — Founder & Director
Contact
Tell us what is slowing your operation down.
A first conversation carries no obligation. Email or call, and we'll set up a time.
- winand@taktops.co.za
- Phone
- +27 82 221 5347
- Based in
- Pretoria, South Africa