Summary
The company is an internationally operating food company with sales and production locations throughout Europe. The products vary from bread to special products such as rice cakes and coffee cakes. The company only carries Private labels.
Period: January 2004 – July 2004
Sector: FMCG- Manufacturing / Food
Job: Project Manager – Management consultancy
Assignment specifications
The production and storage location for rice wafers and coffee biscuits is organized within the location in Belgium. There are a total of 250 direct FTEs. For a number of years, the organization has made efforts to raise effectiveness and efficiency to a higher level. The aim is to increase delivery reliability, reduce production losses and improve financial results. I was hired as a project manager to guide the organization in achieving its objectives.
Objective of the assignment:
Realizing the market demand while maintaining the service level formulated by the customer at the lowest possible cost. Concretely this means:
Achieve production volume of 3.2 million units
Delivery reliability to customer: at least 95%
Reduction of operational costs by €500,000
Objective Revisited
Plan Current
Production volume of 3.2 million units 3.4 million
Delivery reliability to customer: minimum 95% 96.4%
Reduction of operational costs by €500,000 €685,000