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  • Boosting your end-to-end value creation

    Boosting your end-to-end value creation

    We contribute to your value creation through end to end operational excellence involving your supply chain key partners

  • Boosting your end-to-end value creation

    Boosting your end-to-end value creation

    We contribute to your value creation through end to end operational excellence involving your supply chain key partners

Consumer Goods

The consumer goods industry is facing unprecedented uncertainty. This is due to a number of factors, including the cost and availability of raw materials and transportation and logistics challenges. Omnichannel shopping, digitalization, new technologies and the need for sustainable, circular, supply chain design have caused consumer profiles and buying behaviors to change. The most successful consumer goods companies have developed innovative systems to improve collaboration, both internally across functions and externally with key suppliers and retailers. In the consumer goods sector, the time for fighting on operational excellence alone is long gone.

Eitel Monaco

Executive VP Consumer Goods

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What is your challenge?

Whatever your challenges we will find a tailored approach with you

Supply Chain Disruption

Robust supply chains are key to delivering products to retailers and consumers on time and in full, despite the continuous disruptions that are eroding customer service, margins and cash.

To address these disruptions, EFESO is helping clients through projects like these: Supply Chain Resilience and Agility | End-to-End Loss Elimination | Supplier Collaboration and Procurement Excellence.

Digital Transformation

To keep up with changing consumer needs and to harvest the benefits offered by new disruptive digital technologies, consumer goods companies are heavily investing in digital transformation. This includes artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data analytics, to improve efficiency and productivity, and to create new and innovative products and services.

EFESO is helping clients through projects such as: Industry 4.0 including Factory and Warehouse of the Future Design and Implementation | Supply Chain | Digital System Integration.

Using the EFESO Future Supply Chain blueprint, which contains more than 100 consumer goods use cases, we can help you create a comprehensive roadmap and business case for scalable solutions, supporting business performance goals for productivity and growth.

Sustainability

The more mature consumer goods companies have moved away from simply producing CSR reports and are putting sustainability at the heart of their operations. This allows companies to communicate and connect emotionally with consumers and to impact responsible buying choices. To reduce their own environmental footprint and become more sustainable, consumer goods companies need to invest in renewable energy, sustainable packaging and waste reduction - all in a transparent way.

We support clients primarily in the following areas:

  • Sustainable strategy and roadmap
  • Sustainability assessment based on PHDS dynamics
  • Sustainable procurement
  • Sustainable circular supply chain design
  • Sustainable packaging and product differentiation for each channel

Omnichannel

Progressive retailers are innovating continuously to keep a competitive edge and to transition successfully into the new digital era. And the most advanced consumer goods companies are reinventing themselves to win, with innovative omnichannel strategies. EFESO is supporting several top consumer goods companies as they innovate their supply chains in order to sell their products through a variety of channels. These include online, offline, and direct-to-consumer, targeting different consumer profiles and buying behaviors.

A typical omnichannel project includes:

  • Redesign of footprint for direct delivery, and portfolio simplification from a full E2E perspective
  • E-commerce management roadmap including returns logistics and packaging optimization
  • Optimization of warehouse layout and SKU placement for picking efficiency based on omnichannel needs
  • Supply network design for next day delivery for online fulfilment, removing bottlenecks and constraints from e-commerce supply chain processes

Our Services

EFESO has a long track record in helping consumer goods organizations overcome their challenges. We support our clients across several functional areas, including:
  • Supply chain

    Supply chain resilience and agility

    in order to improve lead times and end-to end (E2E) flexibility, to keep high customer service levels and anticipate risk, including new supply network design choices and logistics optimization.

    Redesign footprint

    Redesign of footprint for direct delivery, and portfolio simplification from a full E2E perspective.

    E-commerce roadmap

    E-commerce management roadmap including returns logistics and packaging optimization.

    Optimization of warehouse layout and SKU placement

    For picking efficiency based on omnichannel needs.

    Supply network design

    For next day delivery for online fulfilment by removing bottlenecks and constraints from e-commerce supply chain processes.

    E2E loss elimination

    Cutting costs and inventory through cross-functional E2E optimization. This is enabled by operational excellence and synchronization, as opposed to focusing only on individual functions.

    More about Supply Chain Excellence

  • Procurement
  • Industry 4.0
  • Sustainability

The EFESO touch

A tailored approach to meet your needs

As a pure player in end-to-end operational excellence, we work in tandem with clients across the whole value chain and apply the right strategies to help them to achieve results quickly. Examples of these range from E2E agility to manufacturing digitalization, from supplier collaboration to customer service improvement, and from design to value to sustainable supply chain design. Each is tailored to the specific size and need of our client.

EFESO’S approach to manufacturing improvement— building on our 40 years of working with manufacturing industry clients—is our unique engine to create short term results and engagement, while building an Operational Excellence system that accelerates and sustains the speed of progress over time. Over the years, we have continually honed our expertise in manufacturing processes, human dynamics, and the digital aspects of manufacturing.

Our approach always starts with understanding the business context, the data, and our clients’ current situation. This could mean a deep dive into operational processes and management systems, an assessment of IT and operations technologies, or an assessment of the human dynamics such as leadership and behaviors. The resulting analysis then serves as input for a program of improvement design, covering processes, human factors, and digital technology, to be implemented while supported by strong program management.

For EFESO, ‘implementation’ means working closely together in tandem with you, step by step, in order to deliver sustainable results in the best possible way.

Some of the tangible results we deliver for Clients

20% - 30%

increase in

Productivity

15% - 25%

decrease in

Production cost

10% - 25%

increase in

Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE)

20% - 40%

decrease in

Lead time

15% - 25%

increase of

On Time In Full (OTIF)

10% - 30%

decrease in

Stock / Inventory

30% - 50%

decrease of

CO2

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