COST REDUCTION & INCREASED EFFICIENCY IN FOOD AND BEVERAGE PRODUCTION
Reducing production costs in the food industry and increasing profitability
The food industry is confronted with declining purchasing power and price sensitivity among consumers as well as rising wage costs and unfavorable price trends for raw materials, energy, operating resources and logistics.
This development can only be offset to a very limited extent by growth strategies in stagnating and increasingly fragmented food markets. To protect and further increase their margins under these difficult conditions, companies must systematically examine every area of their value chains and production networks for potential savings. The aim is to identify cost levers that neither negatively impact their ability to act and innovate nor weaken their market position by compromising on quality and competitive differentiation.
EFESO ensures that cost and efficiency potentials in the food and beverage industry are consistently leveraged, and that resources and capacities are focused on growth topics:
- Operationalization of strategy: transformation of strategic targets into a system of key figures for holistic and efficient cost and revenue management, implementation in the organization and development of a multi-level management system for the operational management of initiatives and ongoing processes.
- Supply chain: use of forward-looking, data-supported supply chain management methods to ensure high process efficiency, consistent interface optimization and precise, near-real-time planning.
- Productivity increase: optimization of machine and system utilization and reduction of costs through the implementation of intelligent production concepts, reduction of personnel requirements through automation of manual processes. Increase in system effectiveness and availability (OEE) through troubleshooting, standardization of system parameters and predictive maintenance.
- Resource efficiency and waste reduction: lowering resource consumption and reducing the waste of raw materials by introducing innovative, digitally supported production and packaging processes.
- Leadership and organizational development: empowerment of employees and managers, introduction of effective, digitally supported management instruments such as digital shopfloor management and continuous increase in work productivity.
COST REDUCTION & INCREASED EFFICIENCY –
Designing and establishing transparent, lean, and efficient processes in production and supply chain management
Further solutions for the food & beverage industry
Clients
CASE STUDIES - PRACTICAL EXAMPLES
Lean development in R&D
Innovation impulses for lighting designers. The LED revolution has made many business models obsolete, while the wave of digitization and the associated technological change have increased the pace of change by a factor of X. To keep pace here, agile working methods are necessary not only in manufacturing, but also in R&D. Lean methods can prove particularly helpful - but can they be transferred 1:1 from manufacturing to development?
Digital Process Twin: Process optimization through Predictive Quality and Predictive Production
An automotive supplier improved the transparency of work and organizational processes in a production plant for dashboards. With a "Digital Process Twin" from EFESO, the company reduced the reject rate and made improvement potentials in its value creation networks visible.
Lean Digital Manager
Shaping the factory of the future with Lean 4.0. How can lean principles be combined with the technologies and possibilities of networked digitization in value creation networks? By further qualifying employees to become decision-makers. The EFESO certification program for "Lean Digital Manager" shows how digitalization of lean production works. To do this, it combines strategies with Industry 4.0 technologies.
Stabilize Processes and Reduce Costs
A mechanical engineering company is redesigning its process landscape: A manufacturer of machine systems and special machines has already achieved a high level of automation in its production processes. The company is now targeting further, cross-departmental goals for process automation. Together with EFESO, it defines fields of application in the Operations area in which Robot Process Automation (RPA) tools should save time.
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Sustainable Products
Whether it is lower energy consumption of production machines in standby mode or shorter distances in logistics: Even small changes can significantly improve the overall sustainability balance of a product.
Digital transformation in the food industry
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.
OPEX / WCOM for brewery group
An international brewery group achieved significant OEE improvements in a WCOM pilot project with EFESO. EFESO's case study describes how this success was continued throughout the company's global value network, leading to improvements and savings.
Cushioning cost pressure with energy management
A dairy group identifies the topic of energy efficiency as a lever to cushion cost pressure from falling production volumes. The case study explains, how the company determines with EFESO suitable starting points for one of its plants. The potential of the measures in terms of possible energy savings, their CapEx and their amortization are specifically quantified.
On the road to digital excellenz
The EFESO case study describes how a chocolate manufacturer started its digital transformation with EFESO. The goal: to activate potential in production and logistics to increase efficiency. The project team laid the foundations for this with a group-wide digitalization strategy and a roadmap for its implementation in several plants around the world.
Future Factory F&B
A dairy company is continuing its success story with a clear vision: After times of war and factory fires, it is building the most technologically advanced "Future Factory" in its region. With EFESO, the company is developing a concept for the factory, which is to be built on 70,000 square meters by 2030 - and is combining this planning with a digitization/Industry 4.0 initiative for ongoing production
