Product development
In recent years we successfully delivered many project in the area of product development.
These are some typical projects:
| Reengineering development process |
Automotive manufacturer |
- Coordination of cross-functional teams on corporate level
- Analysis of weaknesses in the current process
- Development and alignment of improvement measures
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- Development process new structured
- Interfaces and collaboration model optimized
- Roadmap-based product planning and development established
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| Refocussing development project |
Medical company |
- Analysing the product development process (incl. processes, organization)
- Performing market analysis for the currently developed product to challenge the release plan
- Implementing improvement measures
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- Product launch planning aligned according to the actual market needs
- Project planning improved and management tools successfully implemented
- Project management optimized
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| Improvement interior development process |
Airplane manufacturer |
- Optimizing the organizational structures
- Analysing the R&D process
- Developing and implementing optimization measures for process and reporting
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- Realignment of organization according to skills
- Substantial process improvements implemented
- Project management optimized
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| Kick-start development project handset |
Telecom-munications provider |
- Setup of a development project (incl. organization, processes, timeline)
- Pre-selection of design and development partners
- Negotiation and alignment of the product specifications
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- development project successfully started
- Design- and development partners selected and phased-in
- Product specifications aligned and agreed upon
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Supply chain management
Also in the area of supply chain management we successfully delivered several projects.
These are some typical projects:
| Setup software procurement after carve-out |
Telecom- munications equipment |
- Setting up of the team organization and developing business processes
- Drastically reducing the supplier base
- Managing a license audit
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- New functional organization established and processes aligned
- Supplier base reduced by 50%
- Supplier audit mastered and significant penalties avoided
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| Integration of procurement into internal process chain |
Power plant components |
- Analyzing internal processes and organization
- Developing and implementing measures for improvements
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- Root causes of material issues identified within the plant organization
- New organization and processes proposed on plant level
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Comprehensive
supply chain: manufacturer - European customers |
Consumer
goods |
- Investigation and analysis of the as-is situation
- Design and implementation of a Euro-logistics concept
- Setup of a comprehensive European supply chain organization
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- Storage locations, transports, external suppliers and sales plans consolidated, orders bundled
- European supply chain organization created and implemented
- Storage, transport, inventory and planning costs reduzed up to 19%
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| Cost-optimized disposition of inventory and replenishment |
Traffic and transport |
- Quality improvements within disposition and supply processes
- Optimization of inventory and replenishment disposition considering optimal material availability
- Minimizing of inventory, process, and stock outage costs
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- As-is situation incl. all relevant costs investigated
- Disposition tool adjusted, employees trained
- Simulation carried out, cost reductions of up to 35% verified
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Insurance availability prototype
material |
Automotive manufacturer |
- Analysis of weaknesses in the prototype process
- Development of improvement measures
- Coaching of the internal project teams
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- Strengthened responsibility and role of the teams
- Actual decision dates defined and documented
- Required procurement documents detailed and aligned
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| Benchmarking „Procurement Performance Excellence 2012“ |
German and Swiss manufacturing companies |
- Planning of the benchmarking and finding of participants
- Execution of the questionnaire
- Analysis of the benchmarking data and creation of individual analysis per participant
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- Creation of a reliable database for comparable companies
- Individual strengths and optimization potential identified for each participating company
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