70
Countries
Operational Excellence in the Beer Sector
A global beer producer launched a company-wide Operational Excellence initiative to create a common way of working, support ongoing acquisitions, and drive cost efficiency across its vast supply chain network. Together with EFESO, the organization transformed performance across more than 150 breweries worldwide.
Food & Beverage
Manufacturing
Operational Excellence
Operations Strategy and Transformation
Our Client
An international leader in the beer sector, operating in 70 countries with a network of more than 150 breweries. The company sought to harmonize operational practices across its global footprint while generating significant efficiency improvements to support its growth strategy.
+150
Breweries
The Challenge
The company needed to strengthen cost efficiency to support new acquisitions while establishing a consistent way of working across its global supply chain operations. Achieving this required:
- A unified Operational Excellence framework
- Capability building at large scale across thousands of employees
- Deployment across 150 breweries with diverse operational contexts
- Change management support to embed new behaviors and routines
- A scalable approach enabling autonomous implementation in newly acquired units
Real Results Achieved Together
The multi-year Operational Excellence journey delivered organization-wide transformation, strengthening culture, performance, and capabilities across the entire supply chain.
+20%
OEE improvement
-22%
Material waste reduction
-12%
Transportation cost reduction
€400M
Savings delivered within Supply Chain
Transformation Impact
- An extended Continuous Improvement culture throughout the entire Supply Chain organization with all 150 breweries consistently running the OpEx Program
- Major results in terms of OEE improvement (20 percent), material waste reduction (-22 percent), transportation cost reduction (-12 percent) and other losses reduction through more than 20,000 improvement projects
- In the first eight years of the OpEx Program implementation, productivity doubled and fixed and variable cost were reduced by 35 percent contributing to delivering €400M savings within Supply Chain
- A full-fledged HPO Organizational Design blueprint for future operating units
- 700 certified PKE™ employees able to successfully drive Continuous Improvement both in manufacturing and logistics
- A fully embedded change management capability in most operating units
Our Approach
EFESO supported in:
- Co-designing its customized Operational Excellence Program framework
- Deploying it progressively in the operating units
- Designing and delivering on-the-job training to thousands of employees on OpEx methodologies to build internal capabilities for an autonomous roll-out in the new units
- Co-creating the client’s methodological ‘OpEx Toolbox’ with all main pillars in manufacturing and logistics
- Providing plant leadership teams with a step change in their change management skills through training programs followed by the practical application
- Facilitating the process for High Performance Organizational design of their future operating units
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