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Despite the bankruptcy proceedings of the Swedish giant Northvolt, Europeans must not give up on the battle for electric batteries.

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.

In an article published by AGEFI, Cyrille Bender, Vice President of EFESO France, explains why it has become essential to go beyond the logic of cost reduction and quick wins.

Do you want to know what our Experts Fernando Cruzado and Dieter Carels presented during the ManuChem webinar on how combining digital and human aspects can boost your performance? ...Digitalization is one of the major trends – this trend is further reinforced by the current boundary conditions of Covid-19. Please feel free to access both the presentation and webinar recording for further insights.”

The private equity sector has been gradually emerging from the crisis since the middle of the first half of the year.

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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.

In a recent interview with CHEManager, Michiel van den Boomen, Vice President at EFESO Management Consultants; shared insights on how EFESO helps chemical companies redefine their maintenance strategies to balance cost reduction and value creation.

In KnowBoT #7 we discuss how the Maintenance function of a manufacturing plant can be leveraged to be a real value contributor. Maintenance efficiency still pinches a lot of industries as managements face continuous pressure to cut maintenance overheads, while ensuring increased machine uptime and reduced instances of equipment failures. ​

Our expert Fernando Cruzado explains the immense opportunities available for improvement within the process, performance management and leveraging digitalization to take maintenance excellence to the next level, specifically in asset-sensitive industries. They also share real case examples that have guided great companies in their progression journey.​

Read our latest KnowBoT titled Maintenance Excellence – Turning Maintenance into a Value Contributor.​

Recent disruptions at Boeing, including a prolonged strike and ongoing quality issues, have sent shockwaves through the supply chain, affecting suppliers worldwide.

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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EFESO Nordics Joins FKG to Propel Automotive Industry into the Future of Industry 4.0 and AI.

In KnowBot #6 we look at why assessments and measurements play a crucial role in understanding where we are today and tracking how we’re progressing towards the goals that we have set.​

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.

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".

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.

According to the renowned industry study "Hidden Champions 2020/21" by German-based scientific society WGMB, which surveyed more than 1,000 top managers, ROI-EFESO is Germany's leading consultancy in the field of Engineering & Production. In addition, ROI scored best in the categories of implementation capability and expertise among all participants. With a total of six top 5 rankings, ROI-EFESO is thus one of the most successful consulting firms in the competition. In addition to individual industries and consulting focal points, other criteria that companies apply when selecting consulting firms were examined. ROI-EFESO was the only mid-sized consulting company to achieve two number one rankings - including in the category "Implementation Capability", which was rated as the most important by those surveyed.

In an interview conducted by Alliancy, a leading magazine specializing in digital transformation, Roberto Maroncelli, Managing Director of EFESO France, shared his view and experience regarding challenges and successes that industrial organizations achieved when it comes to the digital revolution.

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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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.

ROI-EFESO presents the winners of the Industry 4.0 Award 2019: With its scalable IoT architecture, Bosch is creating the conditions for the rapid use of product and machine data for various machine learning use cases at its plant in Immenstadt, Germany . Watch the video to find out how the winner in the Smart Factory category is thus getting closer to its ambitious goal: the industrialization of AI.

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Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a major challenge for the energy-intensive chemical industry. OQ Chemicals, a global leader in oxo intermediates and oxo performance chemicals, has partnered with EFESO Group to tackle an ambitious goal: achieving net zero emissions by mid-century. Discover their remarkable journey and insights in the captivating video interviews available here www.net-zero-2050.eu

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/

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.

How do you manage the international Supply Chain of a Luxury Eyewear manufacturer dealing with complexity, different production processes and multilayered manufacturing phases, while continuing to meet the highest quality demanded by customers?

EFESO took on the challenge and answered it by combining its real experience in the sector with 3 success ingredients: Lean Agile Development approach implementation, Industrial Strategy development and Human Dynamics paradigms. 

The result is a greatly synchronised and reactive Value Chain with WIP reduction of 35%. A great peak of agility in eyewear industry.

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EFESO Management Consultants, the global operations strategy and performance improvement consultancy, is pleased to announce that it has joined forces with Tsetinis Consulting, a management consultancy championing performance improvement with an end-to-end innovation capability spanning from product conception and R&D to purchasing and production.

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

In an interview with Il Sole 24 Ore newspaper, Andrea Mantegazza, Vice-president and Private Equity practice leader at EFESO, shares his view on smart, digital factory. He explains how implementing digital transformation plan can be a game changer for an organization. It delivers tangible results.

ROI EFESO are happy to announce that their German operations are now further reinforced through the joining of Milet Dynamics, a Berlin-based consulting firm specialising in transformation processes.

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

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.

Over 85% of the senior business leaders believe that Digitalization is a top company priority. But do they really have a Digital Strategy in place? In the fifth KnowBoT, our authors Julien Broucke and Massimo Fanton explore why Digitalization is such an important asset in an Industry 4.0 environment and how companies can effectively plan a Digital Progression strategy within the CDVC Framework.

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

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.

How to combine the setup of a transformation force with tangible business impact?

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.

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.

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”.

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.

This success is the result of a long-term effort in the organisation. Since July 2015 Yili Yogurt Business Division has been working with EFESO Management Consultants China to jointly develop a strategy plan.

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EFESO Management Consultants , sponsor of the 60th Dornbirn Global Fiber Congress

EFESO Management Consultants is glad to be sponsoring the 60th edition of the Dornbirn Global Congress. This year this major event in the fiber industry will be held virtually on the 15th & 16th September. It will include a virtual exhibition area, 96 expert lectures from industries and academics and online networking opportunities.

“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” 

13 Mar 2018 - Leadership Behaviours for Next Generation Supply Chains - Securing the success of strategic supply chain initiatives today and for tomorrow (interim research report).

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.

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.

EFESO Management Consultants , leader mondial du conseil en excellence opérationnelle, se lance dans une nouvelle aventure mêlant défi sportif et engagement écologique, en soutenant le navigateur Axel Tréhin, ambassadeur breton de l’association environnementale Project Rescue Ocean. Ensemble, ils participeront aux plus prestigieuses courses du circuit Class40, comme la Transat Jacques Vabre et la Route du Rhum !

A continuous innovation process can add value, enabling a company to protect margins, as well as enter new markets.

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.

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 KnowBoT #9, we share EFESO’s unique ability to rapidly influence target results and ensuring that the organization keeps progressing on solid sustainable foundations. This is line with our latest operational framework “Accelerate Sustainable Progression” and describes the three approaches – Boost, Build and Transform, each blended to help organizations improve their results today, and securing their results for tomorrow.

An efficient supply chain can add value, enabling a company to develop products and services, as well as enter new markets, in a digital age.

EFESO is a leading Global Pure Player in Industrial Operational Excellence thanks to a powerful framework of value propositions.

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.

It is clear that companies with Synchronised value chains will dynamically adapt and respond faster to the “new normality”. The competitive gap between those companies leading the Sync race, and those yet to get started is only set to grow wider. It’s time for business leaders to embrace Sync and capitalise on the opportunities that synchronised end to end operations can bring.

Saint Gobain has adopted a pro-active approach to achieving Operational Excellence.

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?

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