Our services for optimizing your cost structures
EFESO supports companies in identifying and eliminating cost and expense drivers along the entire value and supply chain. In doing so, we look at all areas of the company to identify potential savings – from the supply chain and intralogistics (Inventory Cost Program) to product development (Value & Cost Engineering) and manufacturing (Industrie 4.0 Instant Payback).
Our range of services includes:
- EFESO Cost Reduction Program: integrated approach for effective optimization of cost structures along industrial value chains
- Zero-Based Organization: cost-conscious redesign of your organisation
- Cost down - performance up: achieving lean and resilient cost structures
- Product Industrialization & Ramp-up Management: closing gaps in the product engineering process (PDP)
For these topics, we develop needs- and industry-specific solutions for the sustainable optimization of cost structures and the sustained strengthening of competitiveness. In doing so, we always make sure that they are anchored in the profit and loss statement, so that cost reduction measures are directly reflected in your company's balance sheet.
Project: Product cost reduction in the business unit of a family-owned company (1 billion turnover worldwide p.a.). Holistic cost reduction programme to stop losses and sustainably improve processes and organisation.
Results: Introduction of a shop floor management as well as production planning led to a
- Productivity increase of 22% in the direct and indirect areas
- Reduction of backlog by almost 100%
- Reduction of internal defect costs by more than two thirds
- Introduction of premium wages
- Reduction of consumables by 10%
- Increase in inventory turnover rate by 40%
The implementation of a one-piece flow on the assembly line resulted in an increase in the
- EBIT margin by +8.5%
- EVA margin by +7% after one year.
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Case Studies & Insights - Practical Examples
Stabilize Processes and Reduce Costs
CASE STUDY:
A mechanical engineering company is redesigning its process landscape: A manufacturer of machine systems and special machines has already achieved a high level of automation in its production processes. The company is now targeting further, cross-departmental goals for process automation. Together with EFESO, it defines fields of application in the Operations area in which Robot Process Automation (RPA) tools should save time.
OPEX / WCOM for brewery group
CASE STUDY:
An international brewery group achieved significant OEE improvements in a WCOM pilot project with EFESO. EFESO's case study describes how this success was continued throughout the company's global value network, leading to improvements and savings.
Cushioning cost pressure with energy management
CASE STUDY:
A dairy group identifies the topic of energy efficiency as a lever to cushion cost pressure from falling production volumes. The case study explains, how the company determines with EFESO suitable starting points for one of its plants. The potential of the measures in terms of possible energy savings, their CapEx and their amortization are specifically quantified.
OPEX / WCOM program at a market leader in the packaging industry
CASE STUDY:
A packaging manufacturer is strengthening its competitiveness against new market players. In doing so, the group is focusing on economically and ecologically profitable management in line with the “zero-loss” philosophy. With EFESO's WCOM™ approach, the company improved the detection, elimination and prevention of losses in 24 plants. At the same time, it empowered thousands of employees to pursue and realize Operational Excellence (OPEX).
Cost reduction/restructuring due to market changes
CASE STUDY:
A plant and mechanical engineering company had to ensure its competitiveness. EFESO identified all the adjustment screws for the necessary changes at a production site in Germany and got the turnaround going with a multi-layered restructuring approach.
Zero-Based Organization
CASE STUDY:
Champions do not rest contentedly with their success, but always have their sights set on the next milestone. A technology group with around 20,000 employees at over 16 locations worldwide is also orienting itself in the direction of such a “North Star”. His starting points: an operational strategy and the initiatives derived from it, which should be implemented at every location in order to make them even more efficient.
Value and Cost Engineering
CASE STUDY:
Cost transformation from premium to volume provider. Mass manufacturers who expand their Product portfolio into higher price segments are not uncommon. A premium manufacturer of refrigeration appliances, on the other hand, takes the opposite approach. What seems banal from a technological point of view is an enormous challenge from a cost perspective. EFESO accompanied the company in this demanding transformation project.
Safeguarding the site thanks to lean value streams
CASE STUDY:
With hard targets for the entire operations area, a valve manufacturer is aligning a plant location for the future - and thus securing the site in Germany. Together with EFESO, the company restructures its manufacturing and logistics and achieves, among other things, an OEE of more than 85%.