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EFESO Management Consultants, the leading international pure player in operations strategy and performance improvement consultancy, is pleased to announce that it has joined forces with the supply chain consulting team of aioneers. aioneers is the leading expert in AI-empowered supply chain analytics and decision intelligence software.

While reindustrialization stands as one of the key projects of France's 2030 investment plan, industrialists on the ground face challenges in effectively translating this vision into reality. In this article, Roberto Maroncelli, Vice President, and General Manager of EFESO France, explores the complexities of reindustrialization.

EFESO Management Consultants has written an article on operational excellence for the latest issue of the French magazine Arts & Métiers (January-February 2024).

EFESO a obtenu la certification QUALIOPI, au titre de la catégorie « Actions de formation ». Une reconnaissance de la qualité et de la pertinence des programmes de formation proposés par EFESO Management Consultants France auprès des acteurs industriels.

EFESO Management Consultants, the leading international pure player in operations strategy and performance improvement consultancy, is pleased to announce that it has signed together with Eurazeo an agreement with TowerBrook Capital Partners to join as a reference shareholder in EFESO Management Consultants. The transaction remains subject to applicable regulatory approvals.

The upcoming European Manufacturing Summit, will be taking place on November 27-28th in Berlin, Germany; sponsored by EFESO Management Consultants. This event will host over 150 top-tier executives, encompassing proffesionals from various sectors, all converging for insightfull dialogues on pivotal manufacturing themes.

EFESO Management Consultants in Italy receives the EcoVadis Silver Medal for Sustainability Excellence.

As the pharmaceutical industry continues to evolve, navigating its challenges and embracing opportunities becomes paramount. In an exclusive interview conducted by bdvb aktuell, Dr. Stefan Kahl, Life Sciences Partner at EFESO Management Consultants with extensive experience in the Life Sciences Industry, sheds light on the key factors shaping the pharmaceutical landscape in Germany and Europe.

EFESO Management Consultants, the global operations strategy and performance improvement consultancy, is thrilled to announce the renewal of its partnership with Axel Tréhin as part of its commitment to environmental preservation.

EFESO Management Consultants , the Operations Strategy and Performance Improvement consultancy, has been recognized by Supply Chain Movement, for the 8th time, for its expertise and track record in Supply Chain.

EFESO Management Consultants is proud to have won the 2022 Philip Morris International (PMI) Award in the category 'Value Creation'.

The INDUSTRIE 4.0 AWARD 2022 goes to AUO Corporation, EDGE Group PJSC, Mangelberger Elektrotechnik GmbH and RITTAL GmbH & Co KG. Since 2013, ROI-EFESO has awarded the renowned prize to Industry 4.0 solutions in the manufacturing environment that set new standards in digitization and automation. This year, the award jury selected winners in four categories from international applications.

EFESO Management Consultants has been awarded a Gold medal from EcoVadis for its performance as a responsible and sustainable business starting with its French office. This certification confirms the group’s commitment to sustainability as one of its strategic pillars. This rating positions the firm in the top 5% of all companies evaluated.

EFESO Management Consultants joins forces with Argo Consulting to enhance its position as a top global operations consulting firm.

EFESO Management Consultants , the Operations Strategy and Performance Improvement consultancy, has been recognized by Supply Chain Media for its expertise and track record in Supply Chain.

ROI-EFESO has once again positioned itself as Germany's leading consultancy in the discipline of "Engineering, Production & Industrie 4.0". This was determined by the renowned industry study "Hidden Champions of the Consulting Market 2022/23" by the Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Management und Beratung (WGMB). ROI-EFESO achieved this top ranking for the third time in a row as a result of a survey of more than 1,000 top managers of large German corporations and medium-sized companies.

The learning campus aims at supporting the successful implementation of Lean transformation and digital change at industrial clients. The focus is on transferring know-how for further development of processes, people and technologies in manufacturing companies.

Tobias Eriksson, Vice-President and Forest & Packaging Global leader at EFESO Management Consultants , had the pleasure to chair the C-Level panel discussions during the 2021 Dornbirn Global Fibre Congress. The discussions were centered on “Cross-industry and value chain collaboration on innovation for sustainability”. Six business leaders from different parts of the fibre industry and one non-governmental organization (NGO) spent an hour together sharing their thoughts, their responsibilities as leaders, and outlining ways forward.

The Consulting Wedding of the Year: ROI-EFESO welcomes CZIPIN

A special connection is celebrated! Alois Czipin - Austria's productivity mastermind - secures with his Red Elephant and ROI-EFESO a unique market position in operational consulting in Austria and beyond.

In KnowBoT #8, we share EFESO’s unique ability to build successful portfolios with a high innovation quotient coupled with constant optimization of all initiatives across the end-to-end value chain, giving due consideration to existing projects while constantly evaluating the new ideas that are aligned with strategic business objectives.

EFESO Management Consultants today announced that it has been identified as a Representative Vendor in the Gartner "Market Guide Supply Chain Strategy, Planning and Operations Consulting” report. EFESO was named in both the Specialist Providers: Supply Chain Strategy and Planning category and Specialist Providers: Supply Chain Operations category” ^[1]

In KnowBoT #8 we discuss Portfolio Management, a widely used tool that can help business leadership to translate their strategic business objectives and priorities into project-based innovation activities. But what happens when the market dynamics are continuously changing and businesses struggle to manage and profit from existing portfolios?

Double congratulations are in order this year! 

We are delighted to announce that our colleague Prof Alan Waller VP SC Innovation at EFESO and visiting Professor Cranfield School of Management has presented (via Zoom!) both Dimitrios Zaires and Neeraj Mehrotra with the EFESO Management Consultants prize for joint Best Thesis of the year on the Executive MSc in Logistics & Supply Chain Management.

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We are pleased to welcome Katharina Janus and Jean-Pierre Floris to our Group. Their backgrounds will be assets for our development.

We are very happy to share with you key insights coming from the unique platea of key speakers we were honored to host at our first ever edition of the Value Chain Grand Prix conference held in Maranello in the Ferrari Museum with: Andrea Antichi, FERRARI, Pierfrancesco Manenti, GARTNER, Alessandro De Luca, MERCK, Gianluca Tancredi, UNILEVER, Ranieri Niccoli, LAMBORGHINI, Michael Jung, ROI EFESO, Luca Galantina, PIRELLI, Massimo Fanton, Fibonacci Lab, Dr Andy Callaghan, NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY, Montermini Andrea, EFESO, Eitel Monaco.

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Declining orders, erosion of margins or new competitors – The rising volatility of industrial markets is increasingly forcing companies to quickly adjust their cost structures. With High Speed Adaptation, ROI now delivers a unique program that supports the reduction of costs in manufacturing, supply chain management and overhead with fast-action measures. High Speed Adaptation (HSA) comprises six highly effective approaches for short-term cost optimization along the entire industrial value chain: from product and portfolio development to inbound logistics and the improvement of quality costs as well as maintenance organization and organizational overhead. In addition, ROI HSA provides highly effective tools for identification of hidden costs in all areas of the company.

Find more information and practical examples on the HSA landing page at https://www.roi-international.com/high-speed-adaptation/

ROI-EFESO presents the winners of the Industry 4.0 Award 2019: Busch-Jaeger has mastered the transformation from an anonymous warehouse fabricator to a manufacturer of customized KNX sensors with batch size 1 at its Lüdenscheid site thanks to its completely digitized supply chain. Watch the video to find out how the winner in the Smart Supply Chain category created the prerequisites for a scalable digitization solution thanks to a flexible data architecture.

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Bosch and Busch-Jaeger are the winners of this year's Industry 4.0 Awards. Since 2013 ROI-EFESO has been awarding outstanding digitization projects in the field of manufacturing. The focus of this year's competition was on Smart Factory and Smart Supply Chain solutions.

Bosch won over the members of the top-class jury of experts with its approach to make artificial intelligence usable for a wide range of manufacturing processes. At the company's location in Immenstadt, Germany, the manufacturer of electronic components for the automotive industry developed a highly scalable IoT architecture that can be used to make process and product data available more quickly for machine learning applications in various areas.

Busch-Jaeger, a manufacturer smart home applications, laid the foundation for the production of customized KNX sensors with batch size 1 by end-to-end digitization of its entire supply chain processes at its plant in Lüdenscheid. This transformation from an anonymous warehouse fabricator to a manufacturer of customized products was rewarded by the jury with the award in the category Smart Supply Chain.

Overarching trends in this year's competition were the flexibilization and increasing scalability of Industry 4.0 solutions. "We experience that Industry 4.0 projects are increasingly moving from local initiatives to company-wide efficiency levers" explains Hans-Georg Scheibe, Managing Partner at ROI-EFESO." Real Industry 4.0 champions therefore rely on scalable data architectures so that their solutions are not only deployed point by point, but can be used across processes and locations".

In this publication we describe our field experience at clients from different industries concerning the challenges of today’s Value Chain.

We are pleased to announce that today EFESO Management Consultants and FibonacciLab, headquartered in Fribourg, Switzerland, officially have joined forces.

FibonacciLab is a boutique consultancy, combining extensive depth in both data science & operations to provide system-agnostic and scalable optimization solutions exploiting advanced analytics.

Read more in the press release about how this strengthens the group.

We are pleased to announce that today EFESO Management Consultants and ROI Management Consulting AG, headquartered in Munich, officially have joined forces. Read more in the press release about how this strengthens the group’s competence portfolio, client base and geographic footprint.

AWATAD, a novel approach to sales

“Information is the way to manage uncertainty; companies should learn to integrate and understand relationships and patterns to develop insights to support decision-making. Sales organizations are a great source of valuable information that can support this uncertainty management”.

“EFESO has been working with us since the beginning of our adven­ture, supporting us in defining the roadmap and guidelines to design our manufacturing transformation roadmap. They clearly understood our business needs and helped to define a vision, set priorities and support us in structuring a high-performance organisation” 

Gartner, Inc. has published the 2018 ‘Market Guide for Supply Chain Strategy & Operations Consulting’ research used by supply chain leaders when searching for a partnership with a consulting firm in this sector.

MEDEF magazine, the leading network of entrepreneurs in France, invited Jean Veillon, the President of the Supervisory Board at EFESO Management Consultants , to tell more about the winning strategy of the company. EFESO Management Consultants is a reference in the consulting industry, in the expertise fields of strategy and performance improvement.

Many great companies rely on tools such as Visual Management or Problem Solving to improve their performance. Yet, when these tools are based on manual processes and data management, most of what happens is forgotten.

In the recent years, the EFESO Egypt office has been involved in a variety of healthcare consulting assignments ranging from feasibility studies for greenfield ventures to restructuring of existing healthcare facilities.