EFESO is an established consulting partner in the automotive industry. With an international team, we consistently align the value creation structures of our clients worldwide for the future and growth – with agile development and production networks, resilient and sustainable supply chains and profit-oriented cost structures.

EFESO ONCE AGAIN “BEST CONSULTANTS” IN THE SECTOR “AUTOMOTIVE & SUPPLIERS”

For the twelfth time in a row, EFESO Management Consultants has been recognized by brand eins and Statista in the renowned industry study “Best Consultants” (formerly: ROI-EFESO). The respondents confirmed the top position already achieved in previous years in the “Automotive & Suppliers” industry segment of the ranking.

We would like to thank everyone involved for the trust they have placed in us and for all the recommendations that led to us being awarded the “Best Consultants” seal.


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As a client, you benefit from our unique industry expertise, which we have been using for decades as a lead advisor and expert in performance excellence in the automotive industry. Whether with OEMs, module and system suppliers, component manufacturers or parts suppliers: we combine best-practice thinking with the pursuit of innovation – and focus strictly on creating measurable results and building on successes when working with you. The focus can be on the following areas of activity, for example:

VISION, UNITY AND COURAGE – A RECOMMENDATION FOR ACTION

The transformation of the German automotive industry is a marathon - not a sprint. In Automobilwoche's “Cockpit Talk”, Jost Kamenik and Dr. Uwe Steinkötter explain how OEMs and suppliers can take advantage of opportunities, play to their strengths and tap into new business areas.


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CASE STUDIES & INSIGHTS - PRACTICAL EXAMPLES

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CASE STUDY:

Competition like in the Bundesliga: A leading global automobile manufacturer wanted to mobilize and accelerate its entire network of nine factories in terms of costs and quality. With EFESO, the group established a completely new, soccer-inspired practice of competing for a championship lead. The project team thus dynamized rigid factory structures and work routines.

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CASE STUDY:

Do you speak OPEX? Can you improve on a success story? Certainly, if you have a sense for the right fields of action. An automotive supplier is well-established worldwide, with around 20 successful plants in Asia, Europe and North America. Thanks to good customer proximity, the sites have developed good business relationships over the years and organised their production processes independently. But now it was time to share this knowledge among themselves. The method: by introducing OPEX (operational excellence) together with EFESO across the entire operation area.

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CASE STUDY:

Innovation impulses for lighting designers. The LED revolution has made many business models obsolete, while the wave of digitization and the associated technological change have increased the pace of change by a factor of X. To keep pace here, agile working methods are necessary not only in manufacturing, but also in R&D. Lean methods can prove particularly helpful - but can they be transferred 1:1 from manufacturing to development?

CASE STUDY:

An automotive supplier improved the transparency of work and organizational processes in a production plant for dashboards. With a "Digital Process Twin" from EFESO, the company reduced the reject rate and made improvement potentials in its value creation networks visible.

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CASE STUDY:

Shaping the factory of the future with Lean 4.0. How can lean principles be combined with the technologies and possibilities of networked digitization in value creation networks? By further qualifying employees to become decision-makers. The EFESO certification program for "Lean Digital Manager" shows how digitalization of lean production works. To do this, it combines strategies with Industry 4.0 technologies.

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CASE STUDY:

Predictive Quality and Production. Find out how a Tier 1 automotive supplier was faced with the task of developing electromechanical components for a future electric vehicle concept. With a steep start-up curve to the customer's usual series quality, the company had to implement a new production technology with new materials. Together with EFESO, it expanded its necessary core competencies.

DIGITALES SHOPFLOOR MANAGEMENT

CASE STUDY:

Performance increase on the shop floor. Should every employee receive shift planning via smartphone? Or the plant management can compare solution proposals on a virtual dashboard in real time in the event of disruptions in the production flow? Thanks to the available IoT technologies, these and many other work simplifications of a digital shop floor management can be easily implemented today. Automobile manufacturers in particular like to take advantage of the opportunities offered by digitization and already have various systems in use, at all stages of maturity.

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CASE STUDY:

In the lean production system of an automobile manufacturer, a premium model with a wide range of variants and vertical integration rolled off the assembly line. But then the new head of production set the goal of introducing two additional series on the same line within just five months. The company used this challenge to realign its production, increasing the volume of manufactured cars by 85%.

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CASE STUDY:

An automotive supplier consolidates four parts warehouses into one warehouse. Three distribution centers of a company from the automotive industry should be integrated into an existing fourth. With the support of EFESO, the company mastered this task in eight weeks. To do this, it developed five solution scenarios with different degrees of automation (“minimal invest” to “fully automated”) including layouts and monetary evaluation.

CASE STUDY:

An automotive supplier harmonizes production planning and control in ten factory locations around the world. With EFESO, the company develops a suitable solution concept for a suitable software solution. This enables a standardization of the planning process and thus more flexibility and efficiency. Likewise, a long-term capacity planning of the plant group can be carried out in the new software.

CASE STUDY:

In order to achieve the sustainability targets it has set itself, an automotive supplier must optimize its more than 70 existing plants worldwide in terms of emissions and resource consumption. Together with the customer, ROI-EESO develops an overarching target picture to evaluate the maturity level and derive a sustainability roadmap for all sites.

CASE STUDY:

A leading automotive manufacturer wants to make its procurement sustainable and measure progress through KPIs. But the goals cannot be achieved via the purchasing side alone - the company needs a company-wide ESG strategy.

INSIGHT:

Find out how mega casting can help you achieve strategic production cost advantages and reduce your carbon footprint.

INSIGHT:

With progressive cost management and proven tools to improve profitability, EFESO helps companies strengthen their financial performance – even in challenging and volatile market environments.

INSIGHT:

With EFESO’s integrated EV Launch Management approach, manufacturers can manage the development and market introduction of new vehicle series more securely, efficiently, and profitably – accelerating their path into the electric future.

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Get exclusive insights into the charging infrastructure market with expert assessments of the key drivers for profitability and innovation.

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Learn more about the US market, upcoming political changes, and a five-step approach to develop a robust, forward-looking strategy.

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Find out more about how you can identify and tap into savings potential with our best-practice toolset for negotiation and awarding management.

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Discover how we successfully plan and execute factory projects using a ‘one-stop-shop’ approach, as demonstrated in an EFESO project for a 5 GWh battery cell factory.

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Read here how EFESO’s team can help you to professionalize your receivables management and make your organization more agile and more resilient to phases of inflation/deflation.

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Find out more about how EFESO's expertise in the implementation of Global Business Services puts companies on the road to success.

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Discover how one Tier-1 supplier is expanding into the fast-growing e-axle sector, closing a profitability gap, and meeting customer-specific design requirements through a best practice project with EFESO.

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Driving profitability through change:
With its Commercial Change Management Process (CCMP), EFESO helps Tier-1 suppliers in the automotive industry align pricing, cost, and customer demands – for measurable results in a dynamic transformation environment.

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Learn how to increase the resilience of supply chains while maintaining profitability. We describe a best practice EFESO client case from the automotive industry. Additionally, we name the key initial questions for four central fields of action and essential steps on the path to resilience.

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Leverage our expertise in factory layout redesign. This insight summarizes real-world project examples and tangible outcomes from the automotive, mechanical engineering, and other industrial sectors.