Major acquisition resulted in demanding cost saving targets, requiring radical change in the existing supply chain
Challenge
A $60bn global beverage company had to reduce supply chain costs by $1bn within 5 years having purchased a major competitor
Visibility and a tailored global strategy focusing on productivity, safety and sustainability was required across a wide range of existing equipment, technologies, automation and capabilities
Covid-19 meant all activities to be carried out remotely via video conference, across a wide range of cultures using varying processes
Approach
Determine the productivity, safety and sustainability landscape from goods-in to the end of the pack hall:
Design an assessment and evaluation for regional production processes that could be executed remotely for 80 sites across the globe
Collect and evaluate challenges at a local, country and global level across brewing, packaging and utilities.
Utilise the Julius & Clark technology database to source physical technologies
Results
900+ challenges captured in global heatmap
100+ innovative concepts developed with 400+ technology options across the value chain
Opportunities of $500 million identified with payback over a 5 year period
Country-by-country strategy and 1,3,5 year roadmap to improve productivity, safety and sustainability targets
Production of the Future became an embedded terminology and initiative across the globe