+30%
Productivity improvement
A Long-lasting Partnership, Driving Productivity Gains and Strategic Transformation
Over 18 years, this French botanical beauty pioneer has transformed many aspects of its operations. Working closely with EFESO, the company has optimized manufacturing across seven facilities in three countries. Our partnership has restructured operations and delivered sustained productivity improvements while accelerating innovation.
Industry: Life Sciences
Service: Manufacturing
Service: Operational Excellence
Service: Operations Strategy and Transformation
Service: Procurement
Service: R&d and Product Profitability
Our Client
A French skincare, cosmetics and perfume company renowned for pioneering the use of botanical ingredients in beauty products. The company operates manufacturing facilities in France, Turkey and Israel, including a specialized fragrance manufacturing plant.
The company’s operations range from product development through to procurement, serving customers with nature-inspired beauty solutions.
The Challenge
The company faced multiple operational constraints requiring comprehensive transformation across its value chain:
- Manufacturing productivity gaps: The fragrance manufacturing plant and six additional factories needed ambitious productivity improvements, capability development and operational excellence implementation to meet market demands
- Extended product development cycles: New product development took almost two years, making the process far from agile and limiting market responsiveness
- Organizational restructuring needs: Declining volumes required downsizing the operations function, streamlining processes and reallocating resources to better match the new business logic
- Procurement inefficiencies: The supplier base needed consolidation, streamlining and pricing optimization to reduce supply costs
Real Results Achieved Together
The partnership transformed the company’s operations from product development to shop floor , achieving measurable improvements across productivity, efficiency and cost reduction.
Working alongside its in-house teams, we implemented sustainable changes that reshaped the company’s operational capabilities.
+30%
OEE increase
-45%
Product development lead time reduction
-15%
Supply cost reduction
Transformation Impact
- Redesigned factories to optimize internal flows and improve service levels
- Accelerated time-to-market for new products through streamlined development processes
- Successfully restructured the organization to match new business requirements
Our Approach
The transformation began with an operational excellence project in the fragrance manufacturing plant, focusing on setting ambitious goals, developing capabilities and enhancing productivity. Following initial successes, we extended the program to six additional factories across France, Turkey, and Israel.
Working directly with plant teams, we implemented productivity improvements and redesigned several factories to optimize internal flows and improve service levels. For product development acceleration, we restructured the entire process to reduce lead times dramatically.
When volume challenges emerged, we supported organizational redesign, focusing on streamlining processes and reallocating resources. The procurement transformation addressed supplier consolidation, base streamlining and pricing optimization.
Throughout the 18-year partnership, we have transferred capabilities into the organization, ensuring sustainable improvements beyond each project’s completion.
Related Services
Manufacturing
Aging equipment meets rising costs and technology disruption. We transform operations through smart factory integration, predictive maintenance, and workforce capability building.
Operations Strategy and Transformation
Helping organizations rethink how they create value. We strengthen performance, build resilience, and accelerate growth across every layer of your business.
Procurement
Material costs and supplier volatility threaten profitability. We unlock savings through strategic sourcing, supplier collaboration, and digital procurement transformation.
R&D and Product Profitability
Markets demand profitable innovation faster than ever. We optimize the entire product lifecycle through design-to-cost, rapid prototyping, and portfolio profitability management.
Facing Similar Manufacturing and Organizational Challenges?
- Struggling with productivity gaps while managing complex multi-site operations
- Seeking to accelerate product development without compromising quality standards
- Ready to transform operations through proven methodologies and sustained partnership
Discover More Clients Results
45K m²
Optimized factory layout (reduced from 52 Km²)
Industrial Manufacturing
Restarting a Greenfield Factory Planning Project
Creating a solid, structured plan for the material flow of its production and validated the static forecast, enabling the factory to increase the output with the existing machinery.
80%
Projects realized on-time
Transportation, Logistics and Services
Achieving Sustainable Transformation, From Vision to Strategy and Implementation, for a Major European Port
Transformed Europe's second-largest port into climate-neutral hub while increasing throughput and securing substantial EU funding.
8%
EBITDA increase through improved operational productivity
Consumer Goods and Luxury
Increasing Operational Productivity to Drive EBITDA Growth in Fashion and Leather Goods
A global luxury fashion house aimed to improve operational productivity and achieve target EBITDA despite complex production challenges.
30%
Reduction in unplanned stops over 2 pilot lines
Consumer Goods and Luxury
A Program Implementation Achieves Transformational Improvements in Consumer Health Company
A global consumer health company implemented an operational transformation, delivering a 30% reduction in unplanned stops and validated standards for global rollout, supporting a shift to a proactive operational culture.
4
Legal-entity handbooks detailing processes, systems, and organizational structures at Level-3 detail
Consumer Goods and Luxury
Designing a Target Operating Model for a Growing Nutraceutical CDMO Group
Discover how EFESO helped defined a Target Operating Model (TOM) that improved governance and created the foundation for future ERP implementation.
~10K m²
Optimized factory footprint
Aerospace & Defense
Designing a Future-Proof Drone Factory Through Modular Factory Planning
Design of a future-proof, modular drone factory enabling multi-product manufacturing, rapid scalability, and optimized investment for aerospace defence applications.
35%
Reduction in logistics headcount through automation
Food & Beverage
Enabling Efficient Greenfield Dairy Operations Through Production and Logistics Planning
EFESO supported the design and realization of a 30,000 sqm greenfield dairy plant, delivering an integrated factory planning concept with full automation and optimized material flows and scalable operational concepts.
+10K
Pallet positions created through optimized DC layout expansion design
Life Sciences
Feasibility Study Enables +10,000 Pallet Pharma Distribution Center in Romania
EFESO conducted a feasibility study for a new 10,000-pallet automated warehouse in Romania, optimizing logistics design, layout, and CAPEX to enable scalable, efficient pharmaceutical distribution.