Operational Excellence

When you have found your strategic direction, you turn your attention to making your business model as lean and efficient as possible. At Kienbaum, operational excellence means the efficiency-driven optimization of business structures and processes in all functional areas – from procurement to sales. Depending on the strategic character of your business (cost vs. quality leadership; innovators vs. copy cats) and your market environment and competition, each project in the pursuit of operational excellence will take on a different focus. While material-intensive industries tend to emphasize improvements in the procurement or supply chain, marketing and sales become the dominant questions in more consumer-oriented sectors. Whatever your interests might be, our operational excellence programmes will deliver tangible and quantifiable results that will be reflected in your P&L figures.

Typical projects in the pursuit of operational excellence would include:

• Reorganization and capacity adjustments
• Optimizing overheads
• Reducing procurement costs
• Reducing material costs
• Portfolio streamlining
• Supply chain optimization
• Improving sales efficiency
• Optimizing the marketing budget
• Branch optimization