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Changing Face Of The Consumer
in the Food & Beverage Industry

Consumers want more personalised products. They are demanding more sustainable products and visibility of the sources and impact of what they eat and drink. They are quality conscious and want to be able to make ethical choices through transparency across the whole value chain.
 
Across the globe, the food and beverage industry is facing fierce pressure on margins and value. Growth is spread across even more products in many fragmented markets with rising raw materials, energy and labour costs.
 
Increasing complexity requires an agile response to the market, a supply chain adapted to global and local demands and a higher speed of product development to market.

Constant change is impacting how food and beverage companies operate.

People also want transparency, ethical employers and brands to which they can relate and promote. Continuous improvement, agile response and digital optimisation are increasingly people driven. We see here a great opportunity to embrace the next generation of consumers in this development.

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Focus Areas for the Food & Beverage Industry

As EFESO we are focused on being a partner to our clients supporting them on their progression journey. We believe that a trust relationship is the key for this and that you can only achieve this with industry expertise, “glocal” presence and a flexible support approach. We also do this by not pushing ourselves to the front, but acting more like an energiser for change.

  • The Progression Strategy is the smartest way to translate Strategy towards reality.

    We work with clients to set a business strategy to align the organisation towards growth and market challenges. We then help clients to achieve the vision defined in the business strategy by progressing in maturity and helping them to choose and implement effective execution solutions with the right stakeholders.

    PROGRESSION STRATEGY SOLUTIONS OVERVIEW

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    Growth Strategy - generate growth results in a record time, working on building capabilities and true repositioning for growth on long term

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    Fit to Win Organisation - help the leaders in designing the organizational structure, developing high performance teams, empowering people and securing successful execution

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    Operations Strategy & Execution - translate business strategy into concrete plans that impact operational performance and result in clear cost savings and lines of growth

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    Complexity optimisation - increase companies’ efficiency and responsiveness through an optimal balance between product variety and process optimisation, helping them to reach value out of complexity

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    Perfect Execution - build a process to achieve competitive advantage by effectively deploying and executing the company strategic objectives

  • Innovation impacts business value acting transversally on E2E value chain actors and vertically on the R&D function.

    We help organisations assess and develop End-to-End innovation capabilities, as well as improving operational performance in R&D and new product introduction (NPI) processes.

    OUR APPROACH TO WORLD CLASS INNOVATION MANAGEMENT

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    Lean/agile development - SCRUM methodology, stage-gate process, Obeya room for Innovation and visual management

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    Feasibility and portfolio management - Pipeline optimization / balancing, portfolio strategy and rationalization

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    Early equipment management - Vertical process start-up, advanced project management for Engineering

  • We help organisations maximise value by focusing on physical assets and industrial footprint in local and global operations.

    We optimize the full lifecycle setting the framework for higher productivity and safety and optimizing costs whilst taking the most important asset - the people - along the Progression Excellence in Manufacturing change journey.

    OUR APPROACH TO WORLD CLASS OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

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    Operational Excellence - TPM, maintenance & operations excellence, WCOM™, Advanced process excellence/Lean Six Sigma & yield management

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    Lab Excellence - Levelling strategy, performance & visual management, standard work

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    Integrated Asset Management - Capital deployment process, asset lifecycle management

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    Program Management Office & Digital Knowledge Management - Portfolio & resource management, intelligent knowledge databases

  • We work on all the value creation levers to deliver revenue increase, cost reduction and assets and cash efficiency.

    We do this by identifying and eliminating “losses” and non-value-added activities and by optimizing and synchronizing critical dynamics in the value chain.

    OUR APPROACH TO VALUE CHAIN EXCELLENCE

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    Value Chain Improvement - Complexity reduction, customer / supplier synchronization, route-to-market

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    Integrated Business Planning - S&OP progression, supply chain performance management

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    Working Capital Optimisation - Inventory balance, order-to-cash improvement

  • Working from top floor to shop floor, we help to engage the organisation on the change journey.

    Applying Human Dynamics to everyday organisations change is all about finding the more efficient and effective way to change people’s current mind-set and behaviour towards a desired mind-set and behaviour.

    HUMAN DYNAMICS SOLUTIONS OVERVIEW

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    Cultural Change - the progression path to Human Dynamic Excellence, fundamentally change the way you do things

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    Mobilising for Progression - boost adoption and anchoring following the change roadmap

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    Leading Progression - strengthen your leadership to boost business results

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    Performance Behavior - drive the desired performance through the right behavior

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    Engagement Monitoring and Measuring - engage your people and manage the process to engage

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