Client situation & approach
The client is a family business and a leader in the French and European cosmetics industry. The group is present in more than 100 countries and has a turnover of more than 2 billion €.
The Leaders of Group Operations wish to:
- Reduce the cost of 7 manufacturing functions: Purchasing, Supply Chain, Logistics, HR, Maintenance, Quality and Development (with costs higher than that of its main competitors with brand-name products)
- Develop operational agility by having the ability to support a strategy of mass customization.
EFESO supported by:
- Analysing the organisation and its interfaces by using our “Fit-to-Win organisation” approach
- Carrying out flash diagnoses of the 7 functions
- For each function, we devised and implemented an improvement methodology based on mixing bottom-up and top-down approaches. From this we created, in tandem with the Client, an improvement roadmap
Results
- Redesign of the industrial organisation by improving the fields of expertise, refocusing of plants on the core business and sharing relevant capabilities
- Identification of savings greater than the set target of 10% ( 4,5 M€)
- Design, in tandem with the client, selected recommendations per function
- Modelling and building a roadmap for the deployment of those recommendations over the next 3 years
