- Aerospace
Optimizing production areas is one of roeren’s core competencies. Production is always viewed as an integral part of an entrepreneurial organism that is linked to essential areas such as development, purchasing, controlling and human resources via numerous interfaces. In order to achieve an optimum in production, it is necessary to align the objectives and processes with adjacent areas. This project example illustrates an application in which the interfaces to and from production responsibilities were used to penetrate far into adjacent areas of the company in order to identify optimization potential for the entire company processes.
Over the course of several years, a manufacturing company worked on restructuring the production areas with state-of-the-art plant technology, an innovative planning system and the realignment of organizational responsibilities. In the process, the performance limits of production became clearly apparent, which enabled the step-by-step identification of potentials that were translated into suitable measures. Starting from the core process of value creation in production, significant improvements in the company’s results were realized by adjusting processes and rules right through to sales. This example underlines the relevance of a holistic approach that combines production optimization with overarching corporate goals.
Profile
Company size
Location
Germany
Period
1 year
Branch
- Aerospace
Percentage of individual services
- reactive situation stabilization
- holistic concept development
- risk analysis production performance
Challenge
- Inefficiencies in the indirect areas
- Long order lead times (from customer to customer)
- Lack of transparency in order processing
- Lack of a systematic approach to program planning
- Lack of connection to the CRM
- High effort in technical order processing (variance as well as special design and configuration)
- Disproportionate personnel requirements compared to sales growth
Procedure
- Process surveys and analyses in the indirect areas (VSM, VSD, swimlanes, activity analyses, structured interviews)
- Identification of potentials and derivation of fields of action incl. Measures
- Evaluation and prioritization of measures and transfer to project planning
- Establishment of a continuous work mode of regular routines and work meetings
- Implementation support
Results
- Documentation of all indirect processes in order processing including weak points
- Effort/benefit assessment of all potentials
- Reorganization of order clarification
- Introduction of a variant configurator and connection to the CRM system
- Reduction of customer-related constructions by Ø 30%.
- Reduction of the order DLZ by Ø 20%
- Mapping of order growth of approx. 10% p.a. with unchanged staffing levels
The project in detail
Project Highlights
Holistic approach to optimizing the company
High specific technical challenge
Tailor-made innovative solution
