Reduce costs quickly
and measurably.
- Great leverage for the company’s success
- Know and utilise efficiency options
- Data analyses show efficiency potential
- Identify efficiency barriers and drivers
- Make targeted measures measurable
- Data transparency in a few days instead of months
Depending on our customers' objectives
three individual efficiency programmes.
There are numerous ways and methods to achieve greater efficiency. We fully adapt to our customers: their goals and data situation, time horizon, budget, maturity level and other factors. You will therefore find three alternative efficiency programmes outlined below, which can also be combined as required. The efficiency programme tailored to your company will be jointly developed, measurably designed and implemented.
Efficiency programme: GETTING STARTED
When getting started with efficiency improvements, it is crucial to take the organisation with you and not overburden it. That’s why the following tasks take centre stage at the beginning.
-
- Efficiency awareness in the team: what does efficiency mean, how can efficiency potential be recognised and used?
- Efficiency focus: which areas promise the greatest leverage for efficiency-enhancing measures?
- Efficiency measurability: what is the starting point, how can sustainable efficiency gains be measured and evaluated?
- Efficiency process: how do we proceed in concrete terms, who has which task, how is the programme coordinated?
Efficiency programme: IMPLEMENTATION
Implementation uses both established and new methods and tools to systematically set up and implement an efficiency programme. Examples include Lean Six Sigma, Lean Thinking, Design for Six Sigma, Makigami, value stream analysis and also agile process optimisation, simulations or Agile Scrum. Even if some of these methods are not yet well known, they are just tools that we use to make the company fit for the future. Even the data basis – if not available – is collected together.
-
-
- Efficiency project: Project start and design according to the DMAIC system (Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control)
- Define: description and delimitation of the project, its objectives and key customer requirements
- Measure : here, for example, a common understanding of process performance and process capability is developed
- Analyse: generates a common understanding of process problems and inefficiencies and focuses on central causes
- Improve : development of relevant solutions for targeted process improvement
- Control : generates a common understanding of mechanisms for sustainable implementation
-
Efficiency programme: DATA-BASED OPTIMIZATION
Phase 1: Data collection
In the data-based efficiency programme, a “digital twin” of your ERP system is first created. Based on the current data situation, the causes of inefficiency are visualised. This is achieved together with our technology partner and special software. For a manufacturing company, for example, complete transparency of the data situation is the prerequisite for targeted efficiency gains – for example:
-
-
- Recognising key cost drivers
- Anticipate existing risks (missing parts, supply chain disruption, etc.)
- Avoid unproductive waiting times
- Eliminate unnecessary transport routes
- Shorten long set-up or throughput times
- …
-
Further advantages are
-
-
- Fast results and data transparency in just a few days
- Visualisation of current company processes (if insufficient documentation is available)
- Simulation options for potential events (supplier failure, energy price explosion)
-
Phase 2: Optimisation
Based on the data collection, the DMAIC process described in Efficiency Programme 2 is then carried out in order to design a targeted optimisation of the company’s efficiency on the basis of the actual data.