the case study in a nutshell
This client is a multinational manufacturer of confectionery, pet food, and other food products, looking for a structured approach to loss identification and elimination. We have developed a customised solution for this purpose, launching a local pilot and further extending it to the wider organisation. We have worked in close contact with the client production and IT team to ensure users engagement and solution adoption.
Benefits
Estimated 5-15% reduction in Total Delivered Cost
Precise identification and localization of losses and immediate cost impact analysis of any potential improvement.
One single source of truth for financial and operational data for more than 100 sites.
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Customer profile
A multinational manufacturer of confectionery, pet food, and other food products and a provider of animal care services, with US$33 billion revenue and multiple plants located globally.
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Challenges
The client needed a way to provide clear visibility and understanding of operational losses, their drivers and impacts. In particular
- To facilitate the computation of losses by assessing different elements such as: management, energy, material, labor, etc.
- To enable moving away from brainstorming improvement ideas to openly and systematically working to identify opportunities
- To highlight priority areas so the site can plan resources and execute loss optimisation/elimination activities for what matters most, now and few years ahead
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Our solution
We have designed and developed a web-based tool, tailored to the client's P&L structure and loss tree elements
- We have Delivered a simple and transparent way to show how losses are linked to costs, and identify improvement areas and activities of focus
- We gave the client support all the way to have one single tool ready to be used across all the segments and plants
- Such solution was developed ready for AI/ML and automatic data ingestion