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About Flip Slide Consultancy
Built for the businesses that build India
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A management consulting firm anchored in Surat, serving Indian SME manufacturers across eight verticals. We don’t write reports. We install the operating systems behind durable, audit-ready growth — and stay until they run without us.

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Our vision

By simple act, disciplined process and high speed of execution, we want to improve the life of every Indian SME manufacturer helping you build a growth roadmap across Operations, Manufacturing, HR and Sales.

Arjun Khunt
Founder, FSC
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Business Health Report

FSC's signature quarterly lean audit. Six domains. One independent read.

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HR Consulting

A factory can be bought. Its people cannot. We install the workforce system...

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By the numbers
What we change for the businesses we serve.
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Engagements

Indian manufacturers we've embedded with on the shop floor and in the boardroom.

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Revenue impact

Tracked, attributable revenue uplift across the sales & operations systems we've installed.

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Manufacturing verticals

From FMCG and pharma to EV, solar, and textiles same principles, sector-specific playbooks.

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System retention

Of installed systems still in active use twelve months after we hand over.

Who we are
A management consulting firm built only for India's SME manufacturers.
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Why FSC exists

Every SME manufacturer carries its own character with unbelievable challenges on one shoulder and multiple opportunities on the other. The founders we meet are rarely short on grit. They're short on a partner who will sit on the shop floor long enough to tell them which opportunity is worth the next twelve months.

What we believe

Our Six Sigma lean audit exists for one reason: to find the critical few areas where your business can move from running the founder's vision in their head to running it on a system. Clear objective. Honest read. Actionable plan.

Six Sigma · lean audit · critical area discovery

How we work

Embedded engagements not slide decks. We sit inside the business, walk the shift, read the books, talk to your people, and install the operating layer behind your next stage. We exit when the system is running without us, not before.

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Would you like to explore the multiple opportunities hiding inside your business?

Then let's do one‑on‑one.

Why Flip Slide
We don't write reports. We build the system.
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Diagnose with rigour

Structural audit of people, revenue, operations, and controls anchored in evidence, not opinion.

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Install the system

SOPs, dashboards, cadences, hires. We sit inside the business and build with your team.

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Hand it over

Your team owns the system at exit. Success = what survives the next twelve months.

Business Health Report
A quarterly six-domain check-up for the business you've built.
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HR & people

Hiring health, attrition signals, payroll & statutory compliance, performance discipline.

Hiring health, attrition signals, payroll & statutory compliance, performance discipline.

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Sales & revenue

Pipeline hygiene, channel RoI, pricing integrity, forecast accuracy, customer concentration.

Pipeline hygiene, channel RoI, pricing integrity, forecast accuracy, customer concentration.

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Operations & manufacturing

OEE, scrap & yield, BOM accuracy, downtime root-cause, SOP adherence on shift.

OEE, scrap & yield, BOM accuracy, downtime root-cause, SOP adherence on shift.

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Growth & strategy

Market positioning, expansion readiness, capacity vs. demand, scenario planning.

Market positioning, expansion readiness, capacity vs. demand, scenario planning.

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Brand & positioning

How you show up to customers, distributors, and recruits and where the gap is hurting margin.

How you show up to customers, distributors, and recruits and where the gap is hurting margin.

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Basic finance

Working-capital cycle, costing integrity, GST & export-incentive hygiene, banker-readiness.

Working-capital cycle, costing integrity, GST & export-incentive hygiene, banker-readiness.

Quarterly Cadence
Run it every 90 days.
Sleep easier the other 89.

Because the SMEs that survive the next decade will be the ones that audit themselves before someone else does.

What we do
Four practices. One operating system for your factory.

Business Health Report

The audit your business deserves before the bank or the buyer asks for one.

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HR Consulting

My people are my biggest asset. They’re also my biggest unknown.

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Sales Consulting

If our top salesman leaves tomorrow, half our orderbook walks with him.

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Operations Consulting

Most days the plant runs well. Some days it doesn’t. I can’t tell you why either.

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Industries we serve
We work with one type of business: Indian manufacturers.

Eight verticals we know in depth. One commitment: leave the plant stronger than we found it.

Case Studies
What it actually looks like when the system gets installed.
FMCG Case Study 01
Mass-market biscuitsDistribution moat

The ₹5 biscuit that out-survived every premium FMCG launch of the last twenty years.

Parle-G is the highest-selling biscuit brand in the world and its real moat isn't price. It's channel discipline.

FMCG Case Study 02
Ayurveda & wellnessScaling discipline

How Patanjali went from ₹500 Cr to ₹10,000 Cr in five years then hit the operating ceiling.

Velocity is a phase. Operating discipline is the next phase and the transition is where the story turns.

Automobile Case Study 03
SUV manufacturingProduct strategy

The Mahindra SUV strategy: how a 75-year-old company invented a new category.

Thar and XUV700 out-priced two German giants but 70% of the win was the operating system behind the launch.

EV Case Study 04
Two-wheeler EVsPivot strategy

The Bajaj Chetak EV pivot: how a legacy player learned to beat Ola and Ather.

In a noisy new category, the player with the best operating discipline beats the best pitch deck every time.

Pharma Case Study 05
API & formulationsCompliance

Cipla, Sun Pharma and the regulatory tax: why pharma SMEs must build compliance before scale.

Quality isn't what you do at the end of the line. It's the operating discipline of every shift, batch and document trail.

Textiles Case Study 06
Home textiles & apparelBrand build

Welspun, Arvind and the textile premiumisation play: how to escape the margin trap.

Contract manufacturing is a starting line, not a finish line. Brand is the cheapest moat in textiles.

How We Work
From boardroom to shop‑floor in four steps.
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Diagnose

4–8 weeks of structural audit. Plant walks, finance & ops data review, 360° stakeholder interviews.

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Design

Joint blueprint with your leadership: target operating model, system map, prioritized roadmap.

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Install

We build inside the business SOPs, dashboards, cadences, hires alongside your team, not above it.

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Hand over

Capability transfer, 90-day stabilization, quarterly check-ins. The system stays. We don't.

Frequently Asked Questions
Questions Founders Ask Before Signing Up.
The Business Health Report is FSC's signature lean audit for Indian manufacturing SMEs. Every 90 days, an independent FSC team walks through six domains of your business HR, sales, operations, growth & strategy, branding and basic finance and hands you a board-ready remediation plan. The quarterly cadence exists because the issues that hurt SMEs the most are usually six to nine months old by the time they surface; a 90-day check-up catches them before they compound.
We work only with Indian manufacturers, across eight verticals: FMCG, packaging, chemical, pharma, automobile, solar manufacturing, EV and textiles. Within each, we bring sector-specific playbooks for example IATF-aligned controls in automobile, Schedule-M readiness in pharma, or PLI-scheme compliance in solar and EV.
A statutory audit certifies last year's financials for the regulator. The Business Health Report and the install engagements that follow it examine the operating systems that produce those financials in the first place. The two are complementary, not competing. Our work is forward-looking; a statutory audit is backward-looking.
The installed system covers five areas: team development and hiring (JD library, sourcing playbook, structured interviewing), learning & development (competency maps, role-by-role training plans), performance management (goal cascade, quarterly reviews, calibrated ratings), legal and statutory compliance (POSH, ESI / PF, labour licences, payroll integrity) and core HR operations all built inside your business and owned by your HR lead at exit.
Business model development, CRM installation, dealership and distributor architecture, sales expansion and channel development. We replace founder-led sales heroics with a system: defined territories, a forecastable pipeline, a Monday-morning cadence that leadership runs on, and a CRM your field team actually uses.
Unit-level SOPs, structured cost cutting, BOM systems and productivity uplift the operating layer the shift supervisor actually uses, every day. Engagements typically lift OEE by 15–20 percentage points and reduce unplanned downtime by around 40–50% within twelve months.
Our office is in Surat, Gujarat, at 604 Cyber City, Utran the heart of India's textile and packaging cluster. We travel across India for embedded engagements; the engagement team usually spends three weeks out of four on your shop floor.
Business Health Reports run 6–8 weeks. HR, sales and operations install engagements run 12–24 weeks depending on scope. Pricing is on engagement scope, not hours. We share a defined band on the discovery call book one above and we'll walk you through the specifics.
Voices from the plant
What founders tell us, six months in.

Managing Director

Pharma manufacturer, Maharashtra
They didn't hand me a deck. They sat in my factory for sixteen weeks and built the audit system I should have had for ten years.

Co-founder

FMCG Brand, Gujarat
Our sales team finally has a cadence. Pipeline visibility went from gut feel to a Monday-morning dashboard the whole leadership runs on.

CEO

EV Start-up, Karnataka
The HR system Flip Slide installed is the reason we doubled headcount last year without losing our culture.
Ideas Worth Your Time
Blogs, takes, and case notes from inside the engagement.

Three blogs in each of our ten focus areas thirty articles in total
written from the shop floor, not from a search-engine brief.