Client situation & approach
This client is working in the highly aggressive and competitive environment of cosmetic make up. These market conditions are forcing an increase in the number of product / collection launches per year from four to six. Alongside this increase in launches is the need to keep costs at target level.
EFESO supported by:
- 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
Results
- Introduction of project selection via cascaded matrices
- 25% reduction of critical path activities
- Reviewed project management and introduced Design Cycle and Design Review
- Resource workload levelling and SCRUM in the functions
- From 20% to 40% time to market reduction on different categories
- Project on Time was improved to 97%
