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Cosmetics Company Redesign Achieves €4.5M Cost Savings
A major player in the cosmetics industry sought to reduce indirect costs across seven manufacturing functions and strengthen operational agility to support a mass-customization strategy. EFESO applied its Fit-to-Win organization approach to redesign structures, streamline interfaces, and co-create functional roadmaps. The program identified savings exceeding the 10% target and established a clear transformation plan for the next three years.
Life Sciences
Operations Strategy and Transformation
Supply Chain
Our Client
Our client is a major player in the cosmetics and beauty sector, recognized for its French roots, extensive product portfolio, and global reach. Generating more than €2 billion in annual revenue and present in over 100 markets, the company continues to strengthen its position as a reference in the European beauty industry.
+€2B
Turnover
7
Manufacturing support functions assessed
The Challenge
The client’s indirect cost structure was significantly higher than that of its closest branded competitors. At the same time, the group needed to strengthen operational agility to support greater customization and adapt to fast-moving consumer expectations.
The Leaders of Group Operations requested support to:
- Reduce the cost base across seven key functions: Purchasing, Supply Chain, Logistics, HR, Maintenance, Quality and Development
- Strengthen agility to enable a scalable mass-customization strategy
- Redesign organizational interfaces to improve clarity, efficiency and collaboration
Real Results Achieved Together
Through a structured organizational redesign supported by functional deep dives, EFESO and the client co-created a transformation roadmap that exceeded savings expectations and clarified the operating model for future growth.
+€4.5M
Cost savings identified
+10%
Above target savings
7
Functions redesigned
Transformation Impact
- Redesign of the industrial organization, elevating expertise, refocusing plants on core business and sharing relevant capabilities
- Savings opportunities exceeding +10%, reaching €4.5M
- Co-designed recommendations per function with clear prioritization
- A structured and sequenced roadmap for three-year deployment
- Improved functional interfaces, roles and operating principles
Our Approach
EFESO applied its Fit-to-Win organization methodology to analyze structures, interfaces and functional performance across the seven target areas.
The approach combined:
- Organizational analysis & interface mapping using the Fit-to-Win framework
- Flash diagnoses of Purchasing, Supply Chain, Logistics, HR, Maintenance, Quality and Development
- Bottom-up and top-down methodologies to ensure rigor, ownership and feasibility
- Collaborative workshops gathering 5–10 participants from different hierarchy levels to capture diverse perspectives, map activities, identify dysfunctions and prioritize levers
- Dual-consultant facilitation, pairing a functional expert with an organizational specialist to challenge, guide and structure the sessions
This approach ensured a balanced view, strong engagement and rapid identification of actionable improvement levers. The outcome was a full redesign of the industrial organization and a function-by-function improvement roadmap built jointly with leadership.
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