years in operations
End-to-End Value Chain Assessment Unlocking a 60% EBITDA Growth Path
A century-old global supplier of malted ingredients saw clear potential to increase profitability but questioned whether production capacity could support its ambitions. With a target of 60% EBITDA growth in five years, the company partnered with EFESO to conduct a deep End-to-End (E2E) value chain assessment.
Our Client
A family-owned company with more than 100 years of history, supplying malted ingredients and brewing and distilling malts to the global food and beverage industry. Its diverse customer base includes major international brands, craft brewers, and food manufacturers, supported by an extensive product portfolio and long-standing market reputation.
months project duration
The Challenge
The company enjoyed strong financial results and a prestigious market position but identified significant untapped growth potential. Leadership believed a 60% EBITDA increase over five years was achievable—if capacity bottlenecks could be resolved and operations scaled without affecting product quality or customer service.
To validate this ambition, the company needed a full assessment of its value chain—from procurement to delivery—to identify weaknesses, quantify opportunities, and determine what strategic interventions were necessary.
EFESO was selected due to its proven, agile End-to-End (E2E) approach and its expertise in helping organizations build a unified progression system that aligns all business domains around a common strategy.
Real Results Achieved Together
The two-month assessment provided a clear, data-backed view of current limitations and future potential. EFESO delivered a comprehensive value chain progression plan defining immediate opportunities and long-term levers to achieve the company’s growth ambition.
EBITDA increase
months ahead of schedule
Transformation Impact
- Identified bottlenecks and opportunities across processes, organization, and digital readiness
- Rebuilt the financial model to map baseline trajectory, required interventions, and full performance potential
- Created an E2E progression plan outlining short-term boosts and long-term structural gains
- Provided clarity on which value chain domains must evolve to enable sustainable, profitable growth
Our Approach
A two-month assessment, in collaboration with the Company Senior Executive Team. This took place in four key steps.
- The first step involved deep dive interviews with eight senior stakeholders from the different domains of the business. This helped to build a picture of how each function was affected by the business’s culture, growth, and profitability ambitions. This provided an insight into the Company’s performance over the last three to five years (including P&L and KPIs) and ambitions for the next three to five years. It also provided an understanding of the current functional challenges likely to impact the company’s ambition and which value chain domains needed deeper assessment
- The second step was to understand which value chain KPIs were being measured and how they linked to the E2E strategy – in addition to specific functional needs. This allowed EFESO to assess current performance, opportunities and KPI management and improvement processes
- Step three was to evaluate the most important value chain processes through the EFESO P-H-D lens – which evaluates processes (P), human dynamics (H) and digital capabilities (D). With an E2E perspective, we were able to evaluate their levels of maturity and identify where improvements could be made
- Step four was to rebuild the P&L model to financially map a) what would happen if things remained as they were, b) what needed to happen to reach their ambition and c) what the true potential was – if the right processes, teams, and technical solutions were implemented
- The final stage was to construct an E2E value chain progression plan which highlighted the likely results today and results tomorrow, on the top and bottom line, from a “boost and build” approach. This looked at the short-term impact of three-month progression blocks and the gains they would provide if they were consolidated in the long term
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