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10 years of business engineering
COMPANY PROFILE
April 2013
We work “hands on” to change complex organization, turning ideas into sustainable results
We call these services Business Engineering because we design, build and implement new “engines” for best-in-class companies
We are a “tailor’s workshop” to grow professionally by delivering excellence in product development , planning, manufacturing and distribution
Who we are. Our Mission.
Expertise in business engineering
New Product Introduction
Innovation Portfolio
Retail ExcellenceManufacturing Advanced Planning
Demand Planning Manufacturing Execution
Lean Fulfillment & Logistics Execution
Lean Organization
DistributionProductionPlanningProduct
We come from different areas of expertise, from product development to manufacturing and retail operations to bring one integrated and unique offering: the capability of engineering the change and make it happen.
Industry experience is linked with knowledge of IT enablers
Luxury
Discrete and Process
Manufacturing
Apparel
Life Sciences
Consumer Products
Travel & Services
We have provided business engineering services working side by side with “best in class” helping them from concept to realization. Competences and informed opinions on leading software solutions help translating needs into sustainable requirements
ImplementationBusiness engineeringStrategy
Beamer considers all factors involved in sustainable change
Reference Model
Products and services
Organization
Processes
Physical network
Performances
InfoRelational Model
Information
Data quality
Relations
Rules
Sustainability
Change Model
Project Management
Risk
Decision sharing
Competences
Resources
Beamer is a proprietary, pragmatic, business engineering methodology. We work with small teams of professionals “hands in hands” with our clients, to deliver high quality results and increased knowledge and culture.
Team workMethodologyExperience
Beamerhands on!
Innovation PortfolioWe help in defining your ideation process and decision criteria
Major Projects:
• Open innovation approach across different industries for a global player in home appliances (preparation, conservation, washing) willing to collaborate with food producers and retailers; 20 partners selected
• Projects status assessment, strategic buckets definition, decision criteria and portfolio management for an Italian food producer (baby food) with global reach and more than 300 active projects
• Ideation challenge management for a design-to-cost initiative in ship design and building; the outcome produced more than 100 ideas and 10 concept initiatives; 3 major product changes implemented
New capability since 2013
…a global lead in agriculture machinery
…a leading cruise ships builder
…a top brand in home appliances
…top european trucks & buses maker
…an apparel and retail leader
New Product Development & IntroductionWe make your innovation processes manageable and effective
Major Projects:
• Stage-gate process definition for a global beverage company with presence in several countries; standardization of packaging development processes across 20 brands and 12 countries
• Product configuration management and design process for an agricultural and machinery company with global reach and more than 10.000 products
• Redefinition of the concurrent design and engineering processes (body in white, molds and dies, digital mockup) with extended network of partners for an automotive car maker; focus on thousands of engineering changes and anticipated time-to-market
• Introduction of system integration techniques and team collaboration for a major ferry and cruise shipyard
New capability since 2013
…a global lead in agriculture machinery
…a leading cruise ships builder
…a top Italian brand in baby food
…top european trucks & buses maker
…an apparel and retail leader
…an renewed brand in electrical switches and devices
Demand Planning. We help you drive the supply chain through a better use of demand planning processes
Major Projects:
• Assessment of Demand planning performances, chemicals, luxury, manufacturing industries• Design and activation of demand planning for New Product Introduction, eyewear production• Review of demand planning process, to move process from “order forecasting” to “demand request” and
definition of data model to sustain the new processes.• Activation of demand planning process for a food company (private labels, promo management)• Design of integration between forecasting and calculation of initial allocation for luxury brands• Design of integration between forecasting and in-season flow of products for luxury brands
…a private label frozen food producer
…a company that produces and distributes kits for clinical diagnostics
…worldwide leader in eyewear manufacturing
…the brand that sets the pace for Italian style in jewelry, watches accessories
…a luxury brand in furs and handbags
…top brand in luxury menswear
Manufacturing Advanced Planning. We activate decision support processes to prevent manufacturing constraints
Major Projects:
• Design, prototyping and activation of a Capacity Planning process, eyewear production
• Analysis, process mapping, functional requirement definition for Master Production Scheduling, Sequencing, automotive industry
• Design of integration processes between components and final assembly production, wood machinery production
• Activation of Capacity and Production Planning processes, eyewear production
• Design of planning model and information flows to link demand management to production scheduling (demand + capacity + master + MRP + scheduling)
…worldwide leader in eyewear manufacturing
…worldwide leader in agriculture and construction equipment manufacturing
…one of the leading sports brands in the world for eyewear and apparel
…leader in machinery to process wood
Manufacturing ExecutionWe design production facilities, processes and information flows to sustain market needs
Major Projects:
• Design of layouts for manufacturing plants, house furniture, eyewear, components
• Manufacturing intelligence, automotive, automotive components
• Definition of information flows and MES capabilities, food and automotive industries
• New planning and execution processes to increase integration between components production and final assembly, wood machinery
• Production plant flexibility study: trade off between different solutions (lay-out, shifts, lean, etc.)
…private label producer coffee and cosmetics
...producer of sun-indoor tents
…worldwide leader in eyewear manufacturing
…one of the top manufacturers of luxury headwear
…leader in machinery to process wood
…a cast iron foundry
Lean OrganizationWe streamline processes avoiding non-added value operations
Major Projects:
• Industrial operations redesign, from batch to flow approach, automotive components
• Plant re-layout to reduce lead time (from 4 weeks to 1 week) and warehouse (raw up to 50%, finished from one month to one week) for an air conditioning company
• Lean production approach definition and implementation and for an eyewear global leader, 2000 people trained
• Components plant flows redesign, eyewear production
• Study on lead time variance reduction, luxury watches
…world leader in eyewear production
…Automotive components
…air conditioning
…one of the top manufacturers of luxury headwear
…the brand that sets the pace for Italian style in jewelry, watches accessories
Lean Fulfillment and Logistic Execution We design and activate robust distribution networks to fulfill customer expectations
Major Projects:
• Network design from green field, design of optimal logistic boxes, (weee recycling)
• Stock rebalancing and dynamic allocation for U.S. market, eyewear distribution (13 business channels)
• Supply chain re-design, from the field to the shelf, food industry
• Network and warehouse optimization in Italy, US, Canada, Russia, Australia, food industry
• Inbound flows optimization and workshop fulfillment, automotive and food industries
• Retail network design, luxury
• Optimization of logistic flows, integration of all logistic activities for cruise industry
• Lean warehouse management, food industry
…two weee recycling consortiums
…worldwide leader in eyewear manufacturing
…top brand in luxury menswear
…the brand that sets the pace for Italian style in jewelry, watches accessories
…a private label frozen food producer
…a logistic provider of temperature-controlled transport services and equipment
…the largest Italian travel group and Europe’s n.1 cruise company
Retail ExcellenceWe sustain your sales developing “tailored” best in class retail processes
Major Projects:
• Merchandise and Assortment planning process for a major Italian retailer (4 brands in woman clothes)
• On hand inventory optimization for six major U.S. eyewear retail chains (more than 5.000 stores)
• Retail network design for a luxury man clothes producer and retailer (around 200 stores)
• Supply chain design and implementation for a luxury jewel, watches, accessories and perfume retailer
• Product flow optimization for a luxury brand (woman bags, ready to wear, shoes, etc.)
• Network optimization for Italian market for an apparel and footwear producer (retail and wholesale)
…four retail brands in pret-a-porter and fast-fashion
…manufacturer of luxury headwear
…the top provider of prescription eyewear and sunglasses
…channel leader in specialty sun retailing
…top brand luxury menswear
…a luxury brand in furs and handbags
…the brand that sets the pace for Italian style in jewelry, watches and perfumes
ANNEXProjects List
Consumer Goods: Apparel, Footwear, LuxuryOperations Global Design
Components, Lean Production
Support in the re-design of components production: introduction to lean production logics, planning processes, control mechanism, production flows, layouts, etc.
Guidelines Definition for Processes and Information systems (planning and ERP) to support the evolution of Operations
Supply Chain Modeling
Analysis and modeling of the Supply Chain, links between worldwide production flows
Demand Management Assessment of Demand management and forecasting processes, re-modeling of current forecasting processes
Capacity Planning Design and support in the Capacity Planning process activation
PACE: planning activation
Design and prototyping of the integration model, processes and information systems, between planning and execution
NPI: new product introduction
Design of actions and governance of the inventory optimization program at LNAD (5 Retail Brands, over 5,000 stores)
North America Inventory Optimization
Design of Governance process of new products introduction: integration of cross-functional processes, feasibility analysis, process definition for forecast of initial quantity
Stock rebalancing and dynamic allocation
Feasibility analysis of North America’s Distribution Network re-design (Oakley, LNAD, LRNA, Wholesale) and definition of the operation model for the network regionalization
Consumer Good: Apparel, Footwear, Luxury
The project has identified a new distribution model for apparel and footwear products, for markets: Retail, Wholesale, Internet, Outlet, for brands: Kappa, Robe di Kappa, Superga, K-way
Supply Chain Design
Production Planning
Operations turn-around
Analysis, redesign and support in the activation of operations’ processes: Retail & Production Planning
Activation of the Production Planning process and related integration with Business processes
Merchandise and Assortment Planning
Analysis and modeling of Merchandise and Assortment Planning: Direction settings, To-Be Processes, Software selection
The project has identified a new collaborative model that facilitates information flows with suppliers (contractors) and reduce the throughput Lead Time of the production chain
Supplier collaboration
Design of Retail Operations
Analysis and modeling of Retail Operations processes: Planning, Initial quantity, stock sharing, Store to Store transfers, replenishment, etc..
Supply Chain Optimization
Analysis and supply chain modeling: Stock needs Evaluation to support the network, analysis of forecasting processes quality, TSL definition by point of sale, development of pilot project for Hong Kong and Macau, design of supply chain’s KPI
WBU Production Lead Time variance
Analysis of production lead time for Watch Business Unit, to reduce variance and increase quality of production planning
Analysis of current Merchandise Planning processes, with a focus on Open To Buy process and target processes design
Assestement of Merchandise Planning Processes
Merchandise Planning Process Revision
Analysis and redisign of physical flows supporting Retail: Initial Quantity, Replenishment, Production ReOrders, Quantity in store, etc.
Consumer Goods: Food
Study on distribution costs optimization, using TMS for simulation of alternative distribution models and business case on development of delivery consolidation criteria.
Process optimization of distribution-transportation
Distribution center sizing, design of optimal operational processes for the distribution of products in the North American market.
Evolution model of distribution warehouse.
Sizing of distribution warehouse for the North American market
Sizing the distribution warehouse for the Australian market
Investment analysis, sizing and design of optimal logistical processes for the management of the distribution in the Russian market
Sizing the Russian distribution center
Design of processes, flows and sizing of the warehouse of the plant to optimize flows from a supplier and the segregation of responsibilities between plant logistics and distribution logistics
Inbound Optimization for - the plant in Poland
Warehouse sizing, design of product flows, optimal operational processes for the australian warehouse.
Design and coordination of a lean initiative to reduce indirect activities and support warehouse performance improvement on Russian distribution center.
Lean Supply Chain for Russian distribution center
Process optimization of distribution – warehouses
Support in the development of the Italian logistics network. Improving the overall efficiency and effectiveness: rationalization of the network, warehouse processes, organizational alignment, change management, product traceability.
Consumer Goods: FoodFull Supply Chain re-Design: from processes (forecast, demand management, planning, management of harvest reconnection, etc..) to infrastructures (Finished and Semi-Finished Product networks) to IT systems and key performance indicators.
Results highlighted cash flow increase of about 8% of the turnover, service level increasing of about 2,5% and cost reduction of about 2% of the turnover
Supply Chain Design
The project has evaluated the opportunity cost associated to different production flexibility methods: plant extension and plant layout changes, forecast and planning processes upgrades, changes on working shifts and schedules, lean management
Plant Layout Design
The project has evaluated the business case associated to the outsourcing of the logistic activities on Food finished products
Assessment of Outbound Logistica
Production Management Process Design of the Coffe, identification of control criteria and automation level in collecting and analysing data on field, functional specifications definition to activate a MES system
Process Reengineering of Coffee Management
Consumer Goods: non Food
The project has re-designed the organization of the productive departments and the distribution in order to meet the re-launch objectives set by new extraordinary administration
Plant Redesign
Support to the project team in defining the more coherent organization for Supply Chain’s activities with the Italian market characteristics and international guide lines of organizational development.
Supply chain Organization
Project management and Change management during APO solution implementation in Casalpusterlengo Plant for planning and production scheduling
SAP-APO Project
ManufacturingCompetitive development design
Collaboratives process
Traceability
Control Model
Sizing and design of distribution warehouse
Assessment of Demand Planning processes
Design of planning process
The study identified the target competitive scenario and the required changes in processes and systems
The project has identified the business opportunities associated with the introduction of new models of collaborative supply chain, in product development, procurement and distribution of finished products
Technical and economic assessment of a project for traceability evolved transport through the active RF-ID technology
Design Corporate control model, based on Balanced Scorecard
Design of the new distribution center, definition of internal processes, evaluation of activation costs.
Assessment of demand planning processes and the identification of the information architecture more consistent to the budgeting activity for demand and monthly forecasting.
Assessment and design of planning processes, from forecasting to machine scheduling, to define integration and automation needs (Planning-ERP)
AutomotiveGAP Design and Change management associated to Manufacturing suite introduction at FPT plant in Bourbon Lancy, focused on WMS (Warehouse management system) and flow of components inside the plant
WMS introduction in Bourbon Lancy Plant
Analysis of After Sales Supply Chain, to identify operative optimization areas and to improve flows management in the entire network
Assessment on Aftersales Processes
Wharehouse processes review at the main european distribution center, to solve performance problems following SAP WMS activation
Warehouse processes revision
Cost Deployment Information model design to support Cost Deployment Process at FPT plant in Poland, within the World Class Manufacturing initiative
Design of method for processes and software capabilities mapping to support the Manufactuirng Suite introduction. Survey on Production processes, survey and design of Planning processes, definition of Manufacturing Analytics and Manufacturing Labor Control
Manufacturing suite
Travel, Services and Public Administration
Feasibility analysis related to application of passive RFID tag for construction site activities and materials traceability
Traceability and onsite integration
Support to ATKearney in the Logistic Architecture Redesign, iidentification of guidelines and economic evaluation associated to an integrated logistic model for the different Business Units of the company, to support the merge between Telecom Italia and Tim.
Logistic Architecture Redesign
Design of the organization and coordination mechanisms in ICT area, to improve innovation capability in applications development to support CORE activities.
Activation of innovation teams
The project, through the analysis of two pilot sectors of Application development area, has identified and estimated operative efficiency drivers of the area.
Organizational analysis of two sectors of Regione Piemonte, to support economic-treatment (compensation) processes, pension and insurance treatments of the employees
Organizational Analysis of two sectors
Warehouse processes review, to reduce picking errors and inventory inconsistencies, to increase quality of distribution processes to Company’s stores
Warehouse processes revision
Process analysis and change management associated to a new Back office system introduction for malls.
Support to Back office system activation
Micro-Organization analysis of two apllication management sectors
Travel, Services and Public Administration Design of Supply Chain business model from "green field" for the development of an Italian network of recovery and treatment of waste electrical and electronic equipment, definition of supply specifications, support the activation of the network
Supply chain design
Support the General Manager in the analysis and review of customer service processes, back office, application development and billling
Review of the processes
Support to the Director of Services and Systems for Personnel in the design and activation of the process of Portfolio and Demand Management for its management.
Assessment of DSSP Department
Design and activation of the control model on the company's supply chain, transportation optimization analysis and redesign of optimal transportation units
Control model of the supply chain
Design and change management for Help Desk on Remote Banking, to support the integration of San Paolo IMI and Banca Intesa banks.
Change management to HD
Design and support in the activation and development of the business process of Business Development, identifying portfolios of services, development of service strategies
Business Development
Recognition of regional processes of management of calls of tender and identification of areas of common application, in order to unify the software to support the system
Platform Bandi, analysis of requirements
Identification of business requirements and unification of criteria for collecting and mapping requirements, based on BPMN. Management of the integration between business requirements and application requirements
Platform Bandi, identifying functional requirements
Analysis of the impact on the Italian network of the recasting of the European Directive on WEEE optimal model evaluation and identification proposals for issuance of decrees Italian
Impact Analysis recast weee directive
Travel, Services and Public Administration Design and change management support for new traceability processes, Food and Beverage warehouse and supply chain flows
Traceability
Design of performance indicators (KPI) related to Supply Chain, Cruise OperationsSupply Chain KPI
Change management in reviewing and activation of a new organization, also according to the business objectives of the distribution sector.
Corporate Organization
Sourcing
Logistic Outsourcing
Analysis of spending to identify the criteria for sourcing management (information, processes, supply chain integration, etc..), Cruise Operations and Technical Operations
Redesign and outsourcing analysis of distribution network, Cruise Operations and Technical Operations, business case and RFQ definition
Design of the information system, in the component management, operational, optimization and integration of the supply chain (member companies, corporate clients)
Information Systems
Sourcing Surfing and Purchase Order integration
Design of reporting and indicators for the analysis of purchasing in relation to the commodities of Cruise Operations. Support in the analysis and design of processes and integration tool with suppliers, order lifecycle management, bid and contract management design