• Low effectiveness of R&D department, due to a lot of multiple tasks and limited use of innovation management tools.
• Some sources of savings in purchasing remain unexploited.
• Extreme flexibility imposed on manufacturing activities (linked with high demand variability), causing important variations in efficiency and high level of waste.

• Increasing manufacturing capacity of a specific production line.
• Reducing purchasing costs by 2% or 306 k€.
• Supporting the purchasing department for production ramp-up.

Completion of 4 workstreams to achieve the project objectives

A - « Purchasing » workstream: achieving cost savings on components purchasing, supporting the client during the production ramp-up by ensuring the suppliers' capacity is also increased and setting up alternative solutions when needed.

B - « Lean Manufacturing » workstream: defining future Plant Master Plan, putting local improvement plans into action, increasing production capacity by setting up a new flexible assembly line.

C - « Supply Chain » workstream: adopting a « make-to-stock » approach, setting up sales & operations coordination (forecasting tools), implementing customer service dashboards.

D - « Innovation and Product Management » workstream: identifying KPIs for the R&D department, evaluating AS IS/TO BE situations and identifying a concrete action plan, supervising the implementation of the action plan (innovation strategy, product manager function, innovation process).