Operations
No matter how good the business model is, it is difficult to ensure profitability and a competitive advantage if operations are not actually optimized. In addition, in an era when ESG management is essential, operational excellence is becoming increasingly important in more complex situations. We must reconsider how Japanese companies are addressing operations.
Our Essential
One of the most difficult parts of change management is the operation. Even if you envision a theoretical goal, changing the way things are done in the workplace presents a psychological barrier to employees who are used to the conventional way.
Our policy is to pursue concrete results, and we will not only plan out the results of the transformation, but we will be part of the workforce until we actually achieve that transformation.
We contribute to operational innovation by making full use of the essentials of change management, which we know only too well because we are dedicated to the realization of change.
Featured Cases
Reform of Global Supply Chain Management Centered on Manufacturing Sites
The client was a major food company aiming to expand worldwide, but facing a serious issue of staff shortages at their domestic manufacturing sites. To address this, we reviewed everything from global collaboration to on-site operations, and from the supply chains' upstream to downstream parts. As a result, profitability was improved as well as operational efficiency. Reviewing inventory levels, etc. reduced the client's excess inventory by nearly 30%.
Planning and carrying out thorough reduction of procurement costs including organizational reforms
Drove reforms at one of Japan's leading financial firms with the primary objective of reducing procurement costs.Considered the ideal form to achieve optimization from the selection of suppliers which had become a semi-customary practice to procurement methods and procurement details. Promoted the planned reforms by providing on-site support for negotiations with suppliers and demonstrating the quantitative effects of procurement cost reductions. Achieved double-digit billion yen cost reductions per year.
Changing employees' mindsets to use digital technology for operational efficiency
At a major manufacturing company that has not made progress in digital transformation, held workshops repeatedly with management and leaders of each business unit, introducing advanced case studies of other companies in the same industry including global companies, and brainstorming on operational reform proposals that can be realized digitally. The workshops helped them to understand the importance and necessity of digital transformation, and to sublimate it into a personal matter, and to incorporate it into the development of immediate quantitative targets and action plans for each business unit.
Other Cases
- Developing global procurement methods
Supported a major Japanese manufacturing company with no experience in global procurement of materials and equipment, from selection of suppliers to development of operational manuals, then achieved significant cost reductions.
- Improving efficiency in adopting RPA
At a major manufacturing company, there was a delay in reaping the benefits of introducing RPA due to the impersonal nature of the business execution methods and the absence of a lead organization to implement it. Identified the operations to be implemented and developed the implementation process and corresponding organization.
- Business sophistication through digital
From both needs and seeds approach, developed use cases involving actual vendors etc... for means of increasing operational efficiency and sophistication through the use of digital technology and provided support up to the PoC.
