- Mechanical engineering
Business model development and implementation Remanufacturing
Bringing production expertise into business model developments at an early stage was the reason for the cooperation in this project environment. It quickly became apparent that the process-oriented design of variant groupings, as well as the complex management of product and production process characteristics, generates decisive cost advantages.
In the actual project application, we structured across all disciplines the respective interests and influences for potential components to be remanufactured. Since technological and economic aspects cannot be kept apart in this context, our expertise in presenting complex interrelationships in a clear and simple manner and making evaluation recommendations was able to have the best possible effect. We selected processes for reprocessing, described the economic viability and managed the implementation of the equipment and production processes. Today, the components and processes designed by us are processed in a plant at a supplier and, in accordance with the law on closed-loop recycling, are put to further use in an ecologically and economically very profitable way.
Profile
Company size
Location
Germany
Period
4 years
Branch
- Mechanical engineering
Percentage of individual services
Challenge
Declining retention in older vehicle segments
Gray market for spare parts and repair
Decreasing contribution margins, increasing manufacturing costs for spare parts
Variant management due to cross-assembly and AI levels
Establishment and industrialization of supply chain for remanufacturing of spare parts components
Reverse logistics
Bring about corporate resulutions (committee runs)
Procedure
Market and competition analysis to determine the potential with remanufactured spare parts
Feasibility study and creation of business cases
Modeling End2End processes
Concept creation variant management
Site analysis and assessment
Tendering and awarding suppliers for the reconditioning of spare parts components
Support of industrialization at Tier-1
Development of marketing concepts
Results
Positive business case anchored in long-term corporate planning
Corporate resolution (at board level)
Product management established for variant management and product- and portfolio maintenance
Backward parts chain optimized and core management implemented
Supplier for reconditioning of spare parts components nominated and industrialized
In-house assembly processes connected
Marketing approach developed and implemented
The project in detail
Project Highlights
Dovetailing of economic and technological variant evaluation
Marriage of product and process analyses
Massive contribution to climate-friendly circular economy
