Supply Chain

Turn supplier complexity into competitive advantage. EFESO strengthens your supplier network and optimizes value streams – reducing costs, increasing resilience and boosting innovation with structured, on-the-ground execution.

Bringing Transparency to Supplier Costs

As markets evolve and innovation cycles accelerate, supplier performance is critical. Yet most companies focus inward, overlooking that more than 70 percent of value often lies with external suppliers. Opaque cost structures, underused supplier innovation and weak implementation of cost-out measures are missed opportunities.

EFESO works with your teams to turn supplier relationships into performance levers. From benchmarking and cost transparency to joint value stream optimization, we help you build stronger, more efficient, and more innovative supply networks – reducing SG&A (selling, general and administrative) and material costs while improving supply reliability and long-term competitiveness.

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Erik Diks

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Real Results Achieved with our Clients

+€4B

Total client savings

-12%

Cost reduction via supplier benchmarking and technical optimization

-8%

SG&A cost reduction via cross-functional benchmarking

A Tailored and Pragmatic Approach that Fits your Reality

Our approach is built on five field-tested modules: selecting the right suppliers, driving material cost reduction, optimizing designs, improving SG&A structures and ensuring implementation. We combine LPP analysis, cost breakdowns and parametric costing with design-to-cost and action tracking.

Where needed, we deploy TIGER-Teams – fast-moving task forces that stabilize launches, resolve disruptions, and safeguard standard operating procedures. Together, we turn supplier management into a structured, strategic capability that drives measurable improvement and resilience.

E2E Supply Chain Ecosystem Transformation

EFESO Management Consultants and Supply Chain Media interviewed more than 100 leaders worldwide.

Executives from Pernod Ricard, Bosch, Covestro and dsm-firmenich also shared their insights. Explore the survey findings and our analysis on the next big shifts in supply chain transformation.

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Supply Chain Client Results

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Resources Mining and Processing

Integrated Business Planning at a Global Copper Manufacturer

EFESO supported KME Group in integrating Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) with its broader supply chain, driving strategic alignment, improving delivery performance by 15%, and reducing metal stock by 33%, resulting in a €100 million financial impact.

Industrial Manufacturing

Accelerating Lead Time Reduction and Inventory Optimization Through Segmented Product Maturity Management

Packaging machinery group needed lead time and inventory optimization. We conducted comprehensive value stream analysis, identified bottlenecks, and developed transformation roadmap, targeting 40% reduction potential.

Industrial Manufacturing

Private Equity

Comprehensive Value Creation in Window Manufacturing Across Multiple Investment Cycles

Window manufacturer required operational turnaround amid market pressures. We restructured production, implemented lean manufacturing, and optimized supply chain, reducing costs by 30%.

The EFESO Touch

EFESO delivers supplier and value stream optimization with execution built in. Our cross-functional experts work directly on-site with procurement and engineering teams and suppliers to deliver rapid, sustainable results.

We support the full supplier lifecycle – from selecting the right partners, analyzing their potential for material cost reductions and other improvements, to realizing these opportunities in practice. With structured diagnostics, real-time tracking, and hands-on delivery, we turn fragmented supplier ecosystems into value-creating networks. Clients choose EFESO for our ability to implement change – collaboratively, fast, and at scale.