Operations  

Services and Solutions
* Operational excellence strengthening
* Restructuring plans development
* Identification of operational improvements, including – organization, processes, costs, information and data flows
* Assessment of factory lay-out plans to identify potential improvements
* Development of outsourcing potential and implementation models
* Identification and assessment of potential component suppliers. Study visits, quality checklists
* Process mapping and re-engineering
* Financial planning and modeling
* Operations benchmarking
* Technology options mapping and evaluation
* Suppliers, clients and partners identification
* Innovation strengthening
* Assistance in applying for EU funding



Project Examples
Operational excellence
Client: One of Central and Eastern Europe's largest refineries
Scope of work: The Client was looking for significant cost improvements. The work conducted covered - high level process mapping, best practice benchmarking, gaps and opportunities identification, detailed cost analyses and modeling, business case modeling, implementation planning. Specific focus areas included - road, rail and pipe transportation, strategic and operational storage, logistics planning, investments. The work was conducted in Poland and the Czech Rp.; identified and to be implemented savings exceeded 10 mn USD.

Restructuring and improvement plan development
Client: Polish major refinery
Scope of work: The Client was looking for significant operational improvements. The work conducted covered - multiple areas process and organisation mapping, international benchmarking of best practices, financial modelling, data flow analyses, IT systems analyses, CAPEX evaluation, decision flow analyses, development of improvement initiatives. Specific focus areas included maintenance execution (e.g. workshops, field work), planning and communication. Identified savings exceeded 2 mn USD.

Operations improvement and outsourcing
Client: one of the largest Polish power generation companies
Scope of work: The Client was looking for significant cost improvements along its whole supply chain. The work conducted covered - multi site detailed supply chain analysis, process mapping, cost and operational data analyses, multi site benchmarking, logistics contract analyses, evaluation of potential service suppliers, identification of new supply chain model. Identified savings exceeded approx. 10 mn USD.

Cost reduction through manufacturing relocation
Client: Swiss manufacturing subsidiary of world major BPO provider
Scope of work: The Client was looking for total cost improvement. The work conducted covered - analyses of current products and applied manufacturing technologies, analysis of product areas to be outsourced to lower cost countries, review and assessment of potential suppliers from Slovakia, Czech Rp. and Poland.

Process improvement
Client: Major mobile operator in Poland
Scope of work: The Client was looking for improvement of its critical product delivery process. The work conducted covered - detailed process mapping, comprehensive interviews, international best practice benchmarking, solutions development (e.g. processes, organisation, methods and tools).