Establishing production plants in Asia
Planning
- Evaluation of location
- Legal work for foundation
- Investagreements
- Licensing and permits
- Project team incl. local partners
- Concept & masterplan new plant
- Manage detail design
- Tender documents
- Financial engineering
- Insurance
Factory set-up
- Contractor prequalification
- Tendering, negotiation and contracting
- Managing & supervision construction
- Audit subcontractors
- Change-order process
- Monitoring to top management
- Interface management on site
- Installation production equipment
- Final inspection and take-over finished building
- Archive filing final documentation
Start Operation
- Establish organization structure
- Evaluation top management
- Hiring and training of local workforce
- Establish support systems (IT, ERP etc)
- Quality assurance, certifications (e.g. ISO)
- Logistics
- JIT (Just-In-Time), Lean production principles
Sourcing
- Establish global Supply Chain
- Organization
- Evaluation of strategic suppliers
- Audits
- Negotiations
- Contracting
- Supplier improvement programmes
Business consulting
Technology Transfers
- Portfolio assessment
- Push – / Pull teams for relocations
- Trainingprogramms
- Logistics and supply chain
- Ramp-up in new location
- Certifications
Operations Excellence
- Process analysis, metrics
- Reengineering
- Lean production and Just-in-time
- Value engineering and DFA (Design for Assembly)
- Sourcing programmes
- Make or Buy
Restructuring
- Consolidation of sites in Europe and Asia
- Product pruning, down sizing
- Layoffs, severance payments
- Divesting assets
Management
Interim Management
- Special experience in operations and factory set-up
- Managing plants (e.g. COO) in Europe and Far East (China, Singapore, Vietnam)
Project Management
- For dedicated tasks based on our profile
- Set-up new green-field factories in China from planning until operation
Senior Advisor
- For Technology transfers, improvement projects, restructuring
- Support for evaluation locations and sourcing in Far East
Support OEM start-up companies
Finance & Legal
- Business plan
- Project planning
- Funding, financial engineering
- Legal set-up of company
- IP
- Legal contracts
R&D Programs
- Define product portfolio
- Product development roadmap
- Management of R&D projects
- R&D infrastructure and training
- Liaise with universities, institutes
Operations, marketing & sales
- Marketing and sales plan
- Sales organization, distribution
- Set-up production incl. IT, security
- Sourcing, Logistics
- QA and certifications