Our client develops, manufactures and supplies products for automotive, commercial, aerospace, marine, rail and off-road vehicles; and industrial, agricultural and power-generation applications.
Description:
Restructuring of the service areas at the production site.
Key results:
- Achieved efficiency and cost optimization in the indirect areas (especially maintenance, administration, logistics, quality assurance, facility management, purchasing)
- Identified and realized savings potentials
- Sustainably reduced costs for affected overhead areas by 25%
- Improved transparency of operational and financial key figures
- Achieved centralization and economies of scale in the indirect functions
- Implemented a sustainable organizational redesign (structural and process organization) in the indirect areas
- Established multi-project management for the follow-up of the individual measures
- The initial goal was to identify improvement potential of 2 M €. Jointly with the client, our team identified a potential of >3 M € relating to FTE and further >1 M € relating to purchasing spend
- Immediately kicked-off implementation due to a clearly defined roadmap and alignment of the management team how to transform to a white administration
- The project results supported by the workers’ council (traditionally strong in this industry)