How to set up indirect functions within an emerging volatile market

The automotive industry is facing a massive transformation need, especially from combustion engine to electric drive. This results in complex plant structures with multiple different product designs, new processes, advanced technologies, and new qualification profiles.

To be part of this new market, automotive production plants need to improve profitability under constantly changing conditions while at the same time safeguarding the production ramp-up.

• 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

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.

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

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

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