+2
Additional product launches per year
Lean-Agile Transformation Cuts Time to Market by 40% in Cosmetics
In an increasingly competitive cosmetics market, the client needed to accelerate product and collection launches while maintaining target cost levels. EFESO redesigned the development process into a Lean-Agile model and enabled the organization to dramatically increase launch speed and project reliability.
Life Sciences
Manufacturing
Operational Excellence
Product Profitability
R&d and Product Development
Our Client
A cosmetics makeup manufacturer competing in a highly aggressive environment, requiring an increase in annual product and collection launches while keeping development and production costs on target.
The Challenge
The client needed to transform their product development process to meet the demands of a highly aggressive and competitive cosmetic makeup market. The key challenges included:
- Increasing the number of product/collection launches per year from four to six
- Maintaining costs at target level despite the increased launch frequency
- Improving resource utilization and eliminating waste in the product development process
- Enhancing project management capabilities to ensure on-time delivery
Real Results Achieved Together
The Lean-Agile transformation enabled the client to optimize development flow, enhance project selection, and achieve breakthrough improvements in speed and delivery performance.
-40%
Time to market reduction (in select categories)
97%
Project on-time delivery
-25%
Reduction of critical path activities
Transformation Impact
- Introduction of project selection via cascaded matrices
- 25 percent reduction of critical path activities
- Reviewed project management and introduced Design Cycle and Design Review
- Resource workload leveling and SCRUM in the functions
- From 20 percent to 40 percent time to market reduction on different categories
- Project on Time was improved to 97 percent
Our Approach
EFESO redesigned the client’s product development process to become Lean-Agile and performance-oriented. The approach included:
- Assessing and Transforming the client’s product development process to become Lean-Agile
- Creating a blueprint design of the product development process and organization, which was aimed at waste elimination and resource utilization improvement
- Redesigning of the project management system
- Introducing Lean tools and methodologies (Pull planning, Kanban, Scrum, Obeya) as well as training
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