In order to make LEGO profitable again, the leadership team introduced numerous changes across the organization. Cost-saving measures were found by cutting the selection of LEGO brick colours in half, while also reducing the number of different mini-figures available. The production cost for each individual LEGO brick shape helped identify and reduce expensive items: this resulted in an 80 per cent reduction in the amount of suppliers needed. With better production costs, designers could be shown the impact of using existing brick shapes compared to creating new molds and colours. Further down the supply chain, the leadership team increased production capacity by assigning certain machines to make only specific LEGO bricks on scheduled production cycles: this reduced the amount of downtime and