Industry expertise

Automotive


In the automotive industry, which is characterised by high cost and competitive pressure, attributes such as flexibility and speed are basic conditions to be present in the market - cost optimisation and concrete measures ensure planning security.
 Automotive
  • Reorganisation and modernisation of a multinational corporation plant with differentiated rebuilding the supply chain (implementation of process and flow organisation, segmentation and restructuring of production and logistics, relocation planning, project management)
  • Planning a central warehouse and global distribution center in conjunction with restructuring distribution in Europe and IT strategy
  • Examining the feasibility of production and control strategies by means of dynamic simulation, developing a new plant layout as the basis of a site master plan
  • Value stream analysis and redesigning the production logistics (eliminate waste, One-Piece-Flow, supermarkets, setting-up)
  • Inventory optimisation by coaching material requirements planners, optimising the SAP/R3 parameters, improving supplier integration, implementing novel control concepts, supplier eKanban
  • Construction of consignment warehouses and supplier logistics centres for an automotive supplier
  • Analysis of potentials and restructuring of supplier logistics for multiple company sites
  • Process cost analysis, benchmark analysis and implementation of a key figures monitoring system
  • Optimisation of a production segment with realignment of the vertical range of manufacture, setting up process organisation and Kanban control systems, restructuring the planning and control systematics, material flow planning
  • Factory planning study Eastern Europe (ideal layout, site comparison, actual layout, implementation scenarios, estimate of capital expenditure, construction schedule)
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Building industry


This sector continues to be substantially affected by the global financial and economic crisis.
In addition to customer- and target-oriented planning, the awarding of services, optimal construction site logistics as well as professional project management are of crucial importance.
Building industry
  • Structural replanning of a builder's yard for consumable material, large formwork, containers and equipment with storage (heated hall / cold hall / open space) and process and personnel concept
  • Logistics optimisation construction site supply
  • Replanning warehousing
  • Process optimisation for order processing (reducing processing times, eliminating waste, electronic archiving concept)
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Chemical, polymer and rubber processing industry


The chemical and polymer industry is a pioneering field of technology and plays a key role by using innovative approaches in setting benchmarks for the future in climate protection, material and energy efficiency as well as resource protection.
 Chemistry
  • Value flow analysis, demand and bottleneck analysis, analysis of potentials, realignment of a site network (production, logistics, office) with process optimisation and new material flow concept
  • Implementation of new control concepts for plastics production and assembly, harmonisation with changing customer requirements (Kanban concepts, inventory optimisation, drastic acceleration of processing time)
  • Setting up synchronous flow assembly, optimising the provision of materials, optimising transport technology
  • Planning and conceptioning consignment warehouse processing A/B products and C parts concept (processes, warehouse design and dimensioning, planning and control systematics)
  • Reconception of distribution structures for Europe and overseas
  • Replanning and implementing a central production and finished goods store with order picking and shipping, logistics process definition, evaluation procedure for a warehouse management (WMS) system, project control for implementation
  • Optimisation of purchasing (supplier and material certification procedures, configuring purchasing and logistics agreements)
  • Site relocation of a multinational corporation plant with general structural planning, layout planning, labour organisation, relocation planning, project management
  • Restructuring the internal logistics (setting up process organisation, material flow optimisation, implementing a consistent and more efficient order processing chain)
  • Optimising the organisational and operational organisation, the information flow and the associated hardware and software systems
  • Evaluation of the processes, systems and structures of two production sites and subsequent restructuring and process optimisation based on a site master plan
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Healthcare


The special framework conditions - the patient's welfare being the supreme imperative - require special attentiveness.
Accordingly, e.g. the main processes in hospitals, consisting of administrative, logistics and patient care processes, must be considered individually but in an overall context.
 Health Care
  • Planning first occupancy administrative building with demand analysis (room book), communications analysis, relocation planning and implementation,as well as project management
  • Optimising people and patient flows
  • Evaluation, implementation concept and project management for the introduction of SAP
  • Optimising internal and external supply processes, restructuring materials management including procurement
  • Concept of electronic patient file with digital archiving concept
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Commerce


Sustainability, in the sense of facing up to one's own entrepreneurial responsibility, is moving more and more into the consciousness of commerce and the consumer goods industry. Especially environmentally sound manufacturing and procurement measures rate highly.
 Commerce
  • Site master planning for a new logistics centre and administrative building with strategy concept, demand planning, profitability analysis
  • Designing innovative logistics processes with the involvement of supplier and customer input
  • Site analyses with an eye towards Koen and distribution structures
  • Concept studies for material flow equipment and IT
  • General project planning and layout design
  • Detailed planning, tenders and project management for a new IT-supported planning, disposition and control system
  • Training, education and introduction of CIP procedures
  • Developing and implementing the process organisation
  • Value stream analysis and logistics process optimisation for a global supply chain (suppliers, production facilities, distribution centres)
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Aeronautics and defense technology


Aeronautics and defense technology are characterised by state-of-the-art technologies and the development of innovative products and applications. Permanent investments in science and process optimisation will secure competitiveness and innovative energy.
 Aeronautics and defense technology
  • Integrated logistics optimisation
  • Reorganising the entire warehouse structure and administration
  • Material flow reconception
  • Develop new assembly concept and layout with labour organisation and CIP organisation
  • Improving supplier integration
  • Developing a future optimal factory structure
  • Optimising production supply and disposal
  • Increasing the efficiency of order processing and shipping transactions
  • Integrated optimisation of the logistics of a multinational corporation plant
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Machinery and plant engineering, electrical and medical engineering


In one of the most important branches of industry in Germany, it is imperative to continuously optimise production processes and to decrease production and quality costs - innovative and high-quality products and optimised business processes ensure that a company's competitive edge remains stable.
 Machinery and plant engineering
  • Synchronising the assembly and installation of optimised materials provisioning by means of innovative consumption management
  • Value stream analysis and redesigning the production logistics (eliminate waste, one-piece-flow, supermarkets, set-up)
  • Redefining site competences, restructuring the supply chain including the planning and control system, setting up inline prefabrication with Kanban supply of assembly lines, adapting the procurement market activities
  • Rebuilding the supplier management process chain with purchasing, quality, development and logistics agreements (innovations development, order fulfilment)
  • Running workshops to minimise set-up time aimed at the economic reduction of batch sizes
  • Optimising the logistics of a multinational corporation plant, training and coaching operational purchasing, optimising the disposition system, bringing the process landscape into line with the value stream
  • Plant structure planning to further develop two sites with an interdisciplinary consideration of all relevant functions and processes in accordance with the corporate strategy with a focus on profitability and adaptability
  • Developing strategic forward planning (vision) for the process landscape of a future, innovative working environment
  • Site study for the efficiency-promoting reorientation of a site, based on demand analyses, with optimisation of the production, logistics and office plant structures by means of master planning and alternative scenarios
  • Efficiency-promoting site planning with optimal interconnection of existing and future project and process structures along the value chain based on best-practice methods
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Paper, print and media technology


The rapid upheavals in the print and media branch will always affect the publishing houses first.
Our task consists of creating integrated, precisely fitting and adequate solutions in order to implement our customers' communication tasks.
 Paper, print and media technology
  • Logistics optimisation through excellent processes to reduce inventory, shorten throughput times, increase productivity and optimise delivery capacity
  • Centralisation of packaging, synchronisation with dispatch processing, optimisation of finished goods logistics, material flow optimisation
  • Plant structure planning, comprehensive warehouse concept and material flow optimisation
  • Material flow restructuring for production and warehouse
  • Warehouse and shipping optimisation by means of benchmarking and targeted increases in productivity
  • Optimising paper stores with the aid of dynamic simulation
  • Site master planning for a paper factory
  • Process optimisation, consistent material and information flow concept
  • Critical point analysis for production processes in a printing company, identifying future bottlenecks and the measures to remove them
  • Planning a multi-user logistics centre as well as the technical warehousing and EDP facilities (costs, investments, processes, various scenarios)
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Pharmaceutics, cosmetics and food


Logistics and production processes face numerous challenges in these industries: from changing legal framework conditions, complete traceability of food products up to improvements in the availability of end products.
 Pharmaceutics, cosmetics and food
  • Basic concept and replanning a production and logistics complex for pharmaceutical and cosmetic products in accordance with
  1. Process design according to GMP requirements
  2. The use of innovative planning and control concepts
  3. Project documentation oriented towards validation requirements
  4. Set-up of process-integrated quality controls incl. hygiene concepts according to GMP requirements
  5. Preparation of start-up scenarios
  6. Start-up management
  7. Relocation planning
  • Planning the production and warehouse layout, consultation during the selection of transport packaging, tendering outbound logistics services, logistics cost calculation
  • Modernising warehouse and order picking processing, logistics system planning, tendering and project management within the framework of implementation
  • Site master planning in scenarios with profitability analysis and capital expenditure estimates
  • Synchronising a manufacturing system, implementing a pull system, decreasing lot sizes to reduce inventories and enhance delivery services.
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Textile industry

Textile has a future - even in Germany

Merchants in the German textile retail industry are facing the problem of decreasing margins and decreasing sales, as well as a shift in the competitive structure. The strategic advantages lie in controlling suppliers, the creation of value and profits, as well as ensuring profitability.
 Textile industry
  • Optimising the supply chain of an international trade organisation
  • Planning a logistics centre
  • Optimisation of order picking, procurement, logistics, order processing and transport organisation for an international production network
  • Optimising logistics processes
  • Value stream analysis and developing improvement measures that become effective in the near term
  • Site evalulation and site planning
  • RFID expertise and pilot project
  • Reorganisation of the entire warehouse structure and warehouse administration
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Transport services


Transport services see themselves as modern service enterprises for the transportation of passengers and cargo. Here, the companies find themselves in an area of competitive tension between road, rail, maritime and air transportation, and in the public eye regarding their investment projects.
 Transport services
  • Transportation network simulations and planning
  • Global site and transshipment centre planning
  • Planning storage and dispatch centres
  • Organisation of all information processes and systems for controlling the flow of goods, as well as warehouse and inventory management
  • Applications planning of mobile data acquisition and data management technology (transponder / barcodes, recording systems, forklift guidance systems,online order picking, packaging and dispatch acknowledgement systems)
  • Implementation of productivity and performance enhancement programmes
  • Performing logistics audits and introducing quality assurance measures
  • Planning a multi-user logistics centre, as well as the technical warehouse and EDP facilities (costs, investments, processes, various scenarios)
  • Replanning and implementation of an industrialised generic serial process (large-scale project for processes with high repetition frequency; project life span about 10 years) with clear distinction of services customer/service provider as well as interface definitions and testing by means of pilot processes and prototypes (the entire value chain is depicted in a value stream design under the premises of service centres, resources, and target price
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