How to set up indirect functions within an emerging volatile market

Dimensioning of indirect production plant functions within an emerging, volatile, and new technologies market situation of e-mobility.

The sales trend within automotive drive types indicates a paradigm shift from conventional to electrified drive trains

How to set up indirect functions of operations

• Significantly increasing demands within e-mobility
• Highly volatile market demands
• Changing preferences of customers
• Dimensioning of target picture of operations functions of a recently started greenfield production plant
• Increasing pressure to improve profitability

The number of projects from 2021 to 2023 are significantly increasing

How to optimize and set up indirect functions of operations

We had to define a clear target picture for each individual indirect operational function of the greenfield plant and determine short-, mid- and long-term actions to adapt and improve indirect FTE resources to increase profitability and ensure a smooth production ramp-up of new products. We also had to determine the resource utilization for indirect functions in the ramp-up phase, integrating new technologies and producing common products in parallel.

Defining best practice blue print via benchmarking and functional analysis

With external benchmarking and bottom-up functional reviews with our experts we jointly derived an aligned plan to increase staff efficiency within an emerging and volatile market situation.

• We reviewed the expected ramp-up of the plant
• We derived an external benchmark for allocated personnel resources
• We developed a master plan with the plant management to improve resource utilization while reducing the planned staff ramp-up

Levers are based on top-down Benchmarking as well as bottom-up (workshop) functional analysis

We delivered a holistic target picture for indirect functions. We defined short-, mid- and long-term actions with average 20 percent FTE savings committed by plant management team for:

• Quality Management
• Logistics
• Maintenance
• Production Engineering