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We see ensuring the company's profitability as the key to sustainable growth and competitiveness. To achieve fast, quantifiable, and transparent results in this sense, the implementation of performance management is essential.

With EFESO, you increase the performance of your company through these levers:

• Turnaround and transformation management programs: regain competitiveness and strengthen adaptability to market changes.
• Performance programs for the organization: increase the agility of the company with new working models and a scalable and lean organization.
• Performance boost profitability program: achieve holistic profitability through stringent sales and cost management. Here we also take into account framework conditions that are changing the future of the industry – such as new CO₂ emissions regulations or restrictions on procurement markets due to new import duties.
• Program Management Office (PMO): establish full transparency on the status and results of the performance management program. With a tracking and reporting system that goes far beyond improving current cost monitoring standards.

Competitiveness is secured through sustainable cost management. This requires all relevant cost levers to be identified and utilized without losing sight of the issues of quality and sustainability. Targeted complexity management, effective and collaborative purchasing and supplier management as well as the consistent implementation of lean management regularly prove to be success factors here.

EFESO supports you in the creation and implementation of your cost reduction strategy, for example in these tasks:

• Cost reduction along the entire value chain (end-to-end): from the upstream supplier to delivery of the vehicle to the end customer.
• Cost reduction on the product through value & cost engineering.
• Cost reduction in processes and in the organization: e.g., through the development of a zero base organization.
• Increased effectiveness in supplier and innovation management: realization of a partnership-based, efficiency-oriented cooperation between OEM and OES.

Ever faster innovation and market launch cycles for hardware and software require the automotive product development process to be continuously shortened and modularized. The development of flexible vehicle architectures and modules as well as innovative telematics and driver assistance systems is a top priority. The focus is on the “Software Defined Vehicle (SVD)”.

Bring your innovations to market faster with EFESO – our services include:

• Lean & Agile Development: e.g., in the context of optimizing the development system; in addition, end-to-end planning, simulation and continuous improvement of highly flexible plants and systems with the support of digital planning methods – as with the NVIDIA Omniverse – can be critical to success.
• Portfolio & complexity management: e.g., reviewing the Product portfolio from a customer perspective in order to develop new products and successfully place them on the market.
• Digitalization, Industry 4.0, IIOT in the product development process: use of digital tools as a lever to increase sales and as a driver in transformation processes.

A resilient supply chain ensures the availability of raw materials and components that meet the set quality standards. It is important to promote independence from geopolitical changes and to be able to react flexibly to changes in demand.

Strengthen the resilience of your supply chains with EFESO:

• Implementation of technologies such as risk management systems or digital supply chain twins: we enable your organization to act in a coordinated manner when risk and crisis scenarios occur, instead of reacting actionistic to events.
• Establishment of S&OP supply chain planning: alignment of your value chains with current and future developments in your core markets.
• Localization of production sites and diversification of suppliers.
• Realization of Operational Excellence (OPEX).

The automotive industry's value creation networks are highly complex with numerous, usually globally distributed suppliers, service providers and partners. Accordingly, digitizing the value stream involves solving challenging tasks: in addition to the smooth integration of participants and new technologies, the compatibility of data from different systems and applications must be ensured.

Digitize your value stream with EFESO:

• Efficient planning and control of production and supply chain networks, including through predictive maintenance & digital twins in the production environment.
• Transparent design of information flows, for example with the development of a uniform IT architecture and platform consolidation.
• Consolidation of knowledge in formats such as analytics dashboards, webinars, training videos and learning platforms.

The transformation of the automotive industry from traditional combustion engines to electrified driving requires an adjustment of the entire automotive value creation system. It is not only necessary to develop, master and continuously improve the associated technologies for the existing core business.

Benefit from EFESO's industry expertise and automotive best practices in these and other areas:

• “Change Roadmap 2030”: adaptation of R&D and production systems to future challenges as well as accompanying investment and expense planning.
• Future Factory: implementation of the highly efficient, product and unit-count flexible factory.
• Integration of the e-value stream into the existing factory, for example in battery and e-motor production.