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.
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:
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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