Efficiency and growth are the drivers of long-term success. Accordingly, your focus is on maximizing the productivity of your employees, improving processes, and achieving sustainable growth.
Or is your company already experiencing above-average growth? Then your central challenge may lie more in enabling the company organization to couple this growth with high productivity – and to initiate the necessary investments in the best possible way and with realistic effectiveness.
In both scenarios, our clients value us as a consulting partner for their companies. We have developed an established approach based on our experience. This helps our clients and their employees to initiate and drive growth – which goes hand in hand with an increase in turnover and an improvement in results.
In one to two working days, we determine the extent of the potential for improvement.
These are usually in the range of 10 to 25%.
We gather initial impressions on site by means of confidential interviews, an analysis of key figures and brief visits. The result is an initial, rough assessment of potential, which provides valuable starting points for planning the analysis phase.
Even with a limited number of employees, more can be achieved than appears possible at first glance. Let's assume that the first step for a company is to increase productivity: how can more output be achieved with the same number of employees and at the same time generate more added value per person?
One key to success lies in optimizing work processes, another in ongoing employee development based on key figures and performance indicators. Continuous training, daily coaching on the spot and in day-to-day business as well as employee training ensure that the respective performance improvements contribute directly to increased efficiency. A strong team that is regularly challenged and encouraged not only shows a greater willingness to perform. It also has the ability to cultivate an awareness of problems based on facts and to tackle more complex tasks in a timely manner.
Facts and innovative spirit as productivity drivers
In order to secure long-term and sustainable growth, it is also important to make productivity measurable. Productivity management systems that are geared towards efficiency, continuous improvement and therefore innovation provide a basis for this. Such a system requires a continuous actual-to-target value comparison, and a fact-based decision-making process. By promoting the creativity and innovative spirit of employees, it helps the company to remain competitive in a dynamic market environment.
If it is possible to increase employee productivity in a targeted manner through these key elements, companies can not only achieve more output with the same number of employees, but also achieve significantly higher added value per person.
Our services in the area of growth-oriented productivity enhancement cover the following fields of action:
Together with our clients, we design and implement the right measures to acquire new customers in a targeted manner. We also show how to identify and make better use of untapped potential among existing customers. As a result, or impact, our customers benefit from …
We identify opportunities and problem areas for planned new investments. We create a solid basis for this with well-founded analyses and our productivity-enhancing approach of evaluating the company in its overall environment. In the next step, we work on the business plans. As a result, or impact, our customers benefit from …
Together with our clients' employees from all decision-making levels, we plan and implement measures that are necessary for the harmonious integration of a company. This is done on the basis of the facts analyzed in advance and always with a focus on the key business issues in the market and in the companies – so that everyone wins in the end. As a result, or impact, our customers benefit from …
The EFESO OPEX model: activate the forces of excellence. You learn from mistakes. It is important that continuous improvement is the result. In industry, this is targeted as "Operational Excellence", or OPEX for short. Instead of resorting to off-the-shelf solutions, companies should develop their own strategies here - like the group from the steel industry, which successfully used the OPEX model from EFESO in its plants.
Performance increase on the shop floor. Should every employee receive shift planning via smartphone? Or the plant management can compare solution proposals on a virtual dashboard in real time in the event of disruptions in the production flow? Thanks to the available IoT technologies, these and many other work simplifications of a digital shop floor management can be easily implemented today. Automobile manufacturers in particular like to take advantage of the opportunities offered by digitization and already have various systems in use, at all stages of maturity.
Cost transformation from premium to volume provider. Mass manufacturers who expand their Product portfolio into higher price segments are not uncommon. A premium manufacturer of refrigeration appliances, on the other hand, takes the opposite approach. What seems banal from a technological point of view is an enormous challenge from a cost perspective. EFESO accompanied the company in this demanding transformation project.
The global demand for thermosets is increasing, as is the case in the energy industry. A manufacturer of thermosetting resins has positioned itself as a leader in the chemical industry by providing these customers with a variety of innovative technologies, solutions and specialty products. In order to be able to react even more efficiently to market changes and customer requirements in the future, the company is realigning its production network.
A fast-growing manufacturer of medical consumables can no longer meet the rapidly increasing demand and is threatened with the loss of market share. The company needs a solution to significantly increase output in a short time.
With hard targets for the entire operations area, a valve manufacturer is aligning a plant location for the future - and thus securing the site in Germany. Together with EFESO, the company restructures its manufacturing and logistics and achieves, among other things, an OEE of more than 85%.
The EFESO case study describes how a confectionery manufacturer is expanding its competitive position with a comprehensive digitalization initiative. With EFESO, it is expanding the successes already achieved by its WCOM (*World Class Operations Management) program in the direction of highly digitalized production.
