€120M
Annual savings
Cosmetics Industry
Fast-paced innovation and fragmented channels stretch cosmetics operations. EFESO helps build agile, scalable, brand-aligned performance systems.
Keeping R&D on track in a High-Pressure Environment
Cosmetics leaders like you face immense complexity, juggling thousands of fast-moving SKUs across DTC, e-commerce and retail channels. Volatile social media-driven demand requires instant availability and sustainable, compliant practices, while manufacturing must balance make-to-order flexibility with make-to-stock efficiency. Meanwhile R&D must keep pace with evolving regulations such as MoCRA.
These tensions – agility versus efficiency and personalization versus scale – demand integrated digital-physical capabilities to synchronize planning, production and distribution. At EFESO, we collaborate with your teams to drive transformation that safeguards your brand’s quality and encourages innovation while enhancing resilience and end-to-end performance. Let us help you turn these challenges into a competitive advantage.
Real Results Achieved with our Clients
EFESO works with cosmetics leaders to boost agility, reduce losses, and scale sustainably, without compromising brand quality. Our experts work directly on your shop floor and in your boardroom, turning operational constraints into performance drivers. Working together, we build capabilities that deliver measurable impact – quarter after quarter. For example:
-30%
Reduction in stock levels and inventory
+20%
Increase in productivity and throughput across plants
A Tailored and Pragmatic Approach that Fits your Reality
We help cosmetics companies tackle the challenges of volatile demand and compressed timelines. Our experts work side-by-side with your teams, driving hands-on transformation from lab to line.
Build new capabilities with us and achieve immediate, repeatable results in today's high-velocity beauty market.
Our Services to Support your Transformation
Explore how our actionable, high-impact and tailored service offerings help you succeed
Digital & AI
Digital investments fail to deliver operational impact. We translate technology into performance gains through practical AI deployment, data-driven decision systems, and frontline digital tools.
Manufacturing
Aging equipment meets rising costs and technology disruption. We transform operations through smart factory integration, predictive maintenance, and workforce capability building.
Operations Strategy and Transformation
Helping organizations rethink how they create value. We strengthen performance, build resilience, and accelerate growth across every layer of your business.
People and Organization
Workforce transformation, leadership development, and structure optimization. Learn more about our People & Organization consulting services.
Procurement
Material costs and supplier volatility threaten profitability. We unlock savings through strategic sourcing, supplier collaboration, and digital procurement transformation.
R&D and Product Profitability
Markets demand profitable innovation faster than ever. We optimize the entire product lifecycle through design-to-cost, rapid prototyping, and portfolio profitability management.
Supply Chain
Supplier complexity obscures 70% of your value creation. We strengthen networks through supplier development programs, risk mitigation strategies, and collaborative innovation platforms.
Sustainability
ESG pledges require embedded operational transformation. We deliver measurable impact through circular economy practices, carbon reduction programs, and sustainable value chain redesign.
Transactions and Turnaround
High-stakes situations demand rapid, decisive action. We stabilize and transform through operational diagnostics, cash flow optimization, and sustainable restructuring programs.
Cosmetics Client Results
-40%
Time to market reduction (in select categories)
Life Sciences
Lean-Agile Transformation Cuts Time to Market by 40% in Cosmetics
Transformed cosmetics product development using Lean-Agile methodology, achieving 40% faster time-to-market and 97% on-time delivery.
-30%
Material losses
Consumer Goods and Luxury
Life Sciences
Multi-year Partnership With Global Beauty Leader to Drive Operational Excellence
Global beauty leader transformed 38 factories through digital shop floor management, achieving 30% material loss reduction and €120M savings.
€636K
Validated savings achieved
Life Sciences
Packaging
Turning Cost Pressures Into Sustainable Profitability
Packaging manufacturer achieved €636K savings through optimized labor ratios, reduced scrap, and material efficiency improvements.
The EFESO Touch
For over 40 years, EFESO has partnered with cosmetics executives like you. In just the past three years, we have delivered more than 50 projects worldwide. Our Real Lean approach goes beyond theory; it cuts development cycles by 45% and with pre-built batch tracking reduces setup times by months. We’ll also help you lower material losses by 30%, boosting both cost-efficiency and sustainability.
What sets us apart? We work hands-on, directly on your production floors, empowering your teams and embedding lasting change. Whether accelerating launches or reducing losses, we tailor solutions to your unique environment and scale transformation across your global network. Let us help you drive unprecedented efficiency and savings.
Meet Some of our Cosmetics Team Members
Ready to Launch at Beauty Speed?
- Drop trending products while they’re still viral
- From concept to counter in weeks, not months
- Join beauty brands winning the speed race