OUR CLIENTS’ SUCCESS

We understand the challenges our customers face within and across their industries. We provide practical, pragmatic and powerful solutions for addressing those challenges. These CASE STUDIES show those solutions in action. We will add additional cases during the next weeks. Stay curious and stop by here often.

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Case study: Oil & Gas Industry | 5 global subsidiaries | 2,200 employees

Improved on-time delivery for a plant construction supplier

Situation

  • Component orders for individual plant projects were sometimes triggered too early, resulting in increased warehouse volumes
  • Partly inadequate supplier coordination, which exacerbated this problem (costs for interim storage)  

Objective

  • Analysis and troubleshooting of the main issue
  • Find a proactive way to handle sub-suppliers in project execution

Our Work

  • Start of a Six Sigma Black Belt Project to identify root causes in different global projects to provide a common procedure 
  • Introduction of supplier audits and readiness reviews

Result

  • Savings of EUR 290k in the first year of implementation
  • Almost just-in-time deliveries to the construction sites

Case study: Turbormachinery production | 3 Swiss production sites | 1,100 employees

Eliminate corrosion in production and during storage / shipping

Situation

  • Corrosion on machined cast housings was found after delivery and immediate inspection at the customer assembly line. 
  • Corrosion appeared on both circumstances, during air and sea freight

Objective

  • Analysis and troubleshooting of the main issue
  • Find a proactive way to eliminate the root cause across all production, assembly and storage lines

Our Work

  • Analysis and implementation of a cross-departmental program of measures to prevent corrosion and, at the same time, reduce the use of toxic corrosion protection
  • Close cooperation with customers, suppliers and forwarding agents to optimize shipping and packaging

Result

  • Avoidance of non-conformance costs amounting to 2.5 million USD
  • Significantly increased B2B customer satisfaction
  • Reaching the “Preferred Supplier” status from major customer

CASE STUDY: OIL & GAS COMPONENT MANUFACTURER | IN FINANCIAL CHALLENGING SITUATION | 350 EMPLOYEES

Turnaround and restructuring

Situation

  • Significant margin slump due to the current economic situation and management errors
  • The third change project already started within 2 years

Objective

  • Investor / banks are cautious of the situation but want to see a change within 24 months
  • New management in place, need to eliminate management errors from the past and reach a commitment within the employees

Our Work

  • Restructuring of the organization to increase efficiency and reduce operational costs within the supply chain
  • Introduction of modern management systems (OKR, Scrum) 
  • Elimination of the 7 types of waste in the production lines

Result

  • Management forecasting and control including an early warning
  • Credit extension through creditor banks

businessexcellence.eu isn’t a typical consulting group that comes in and tells you what to do. We get our hands dirty and we become part of the transformation process. We start our involvement with the assessments in advance of your change-journey, so we know enough about your organization to be able to include your teams for great results.

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