Eastern Europe

Setting up companies in Central and Eastern Europe

Since the early 1990s, ROI Consulting has been providing support to companies in setting up production sites in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE countries).

The main reasons for selecting locations in these countries are that they offer both proximity to customers and new markets and, through a mix of production from high-wage and low-wage countries, competitive advantages. However, favorable wage costs have caused many companies to pay too little attention to efficient structures and processes. Today, at least where wage costs are clearly on this rise, such as in countries like the Czech Republic and Hungary, these oversights are becoming all the more serious.

ROI has extensive experience with the local specifics in Eastern Europe and deploys mother-tongue consultants. As a further service, we provide interim managers to implement permanent improvements at the company. Thanks to our lengthy, international experience, we can help our customers avoid common mistakes and ensure productivity and quality. In this way, involvement at the global level will become a success, which also assists in supporting existing locations -- for instance, in German, Austria, or Switzerland.

Consulting projects for increasing efficiency and quality are being carried out for renowned industrial companies in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and other Eastern European countries.

Setting Up a Location

  • Location search
  • Identification of suitable outsourcing volumes
  • Selection of location or partner
  • Design of production facilities
  • Outsourcing of project management
  • Ramp-up management

Optimizing a Location

  • Organization and leadership structures
  • Roll-out of company standards
  • Increase of productivity and quality
  • Optimization of indirect functions
  • Employee development

Supply Chain Management

  • Supply processes
  • Selection, evaluation, and development of suppliers
  • Selection of service providers
  • Distribution designs
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Testimonials

In the project, we were convinced by ROI’s use of a combined top-down / bottom-up approach. The consultants were successful in taking the many ideas and creative proposals of the management team and our employees from various countries and giving them, above all, a clear, comprehensible structure in the best possible form. “Teasing out” and channeling the existing creative potential was a particularly important accomplishment of ROI.

Eckhard Gatawis, Head of Division Global Production, HOERBIGER Kompressortechnik Holding GmbH, Vienna

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