The goal of our projects is to increase our clients' competitiveness by generating lasting financially measurable results at operational, managerial, organizational and behavioural level, while implementing a continuous improvement structure.
In order to achieve this, EffCo has developed an all encompassing and strongly performing business model, aimed at creating a high leverage interaction between the following business drivers:
MISSION – VALUES – BEHAVIOUR:
By improving the Business Culture.
Within the most diverse areas EffCo implements substantial, financially measurable efficiency improvements, ranging between 15 and 25%. Every EffCo-project has to generate a Return on Investment, ranging between 2:1 – 3:1 per annum. With our support, our customers obtain substantially better results in the following areas:
Efficient use of resources
According to the specific needs of our clients, we work in the fields of: increased man-hour productivity, improved machine utilization, yield improvement, waste reduction, lead time reduction, quality improvement, etc.
Our methodology employs all the basic principles of Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Business Process Re-engineering, World Class Manufacturing, Balanced Score Cards etc.
We realize substantial decrease of throuput times.
We realize optimise route planning, warehousing techniques, piccking systems, stock management, etc.
Supply Chain Management
We define the position of your organization in the supply chain and we develop and implement forecasting, planning and follow-up tools in order to help you control and measure the whole chain.
We optimize interfaces between sales, production and distribution, based on the principle of internal customer and supplier relationships.
We realize substantial decreases of throughput times.
Improved service levels
We implement systems, aimed at continuously measuring and meeting customer's expectations while in the same time keeping a strict cost consciousness.
State-of-the-art logistic processes
We optimize route planning systems, warehousing techniques, picking systems, stock management, etc.
Improved sales skills and sales performance
We book substantial results in the areas of marketing strategy, market approach, sales margin improvement, sales turnover increase, better interface between sales and production, development and implementation of sales forecasting, planning, follow-up and reporting tools, database management, etc.
Decrease of rework and double work by implementing improved communication flows
We improve your meeting structure and culture. We develop efficient meeting agendas and identify the necessary input information for each meeting. We develop and implement action-oriented minutes for the meetings.
Implementation of 360° pro-active management control systems aimed at sustaining the obtained results
We develop and implement the necessary forecasting and planning tools. We train and coach managers and supervisors in what we call “active supervision” : preventative and action-oriented follow-up, based on planning and positive and negative motivation. We improve reporting information and structures.
Increased personnel flexibility
We develop flexibility matrixes. Based on these, we develop in-house training plans in order to increase flexibility, we implement job combinations, re-organize shifts etc.
Identification and Implementation of "Best Working Practices"
Based on the identification of Best Working Practices, we develop and deliver the necessary custom-made internal training programmes. We increase turnover and efficiency by implementing "standard operating procedures"
The common denominator of all our projects is the implementation of improvements while keeping the Buy-In of all people concerned: employees and operators, supervisors, mid managers and executives.
Our consultants are trained in coaching organizations through change processes (new standards, new work processes, new management structures, etc.) and they manage to transform the initial resistance into new dynamics, aimed at efficiency and quality.
Our approach is strictly bottom-up and aimed at a complete buy-in of all people involved. We create the behavioural context that welcomes cultural change.
As from day one in 1994, our first client, DHL, asked us if we were willing to train their people in our methodology and philosophy, so that they could improve their processes worldwide themselves. We developed a training course, containing all our know-how and methodology and fully transferred it to our client. We are still world leader in this full transfer and continue applying it during all our projects, thus creating an in-house pool of EffCo consultants who guarantee continuous improvement within the company, using our techniques.
In our continuous search for providing our clients with integral solutions and based on our extensive consulting work with over one hundred clients, we ascertained that nowadays, in a more and more service-oriented environment, successful companies cannot rely solely on efficiency and strategy: globalization causes these elements to be copied very rapidly by competitors. In order to maintain competitive advantage, the intangible aspects of business are becoming more and more decisive success factors.
During a major 3 year research project, which we undertook in close collaboration with IESE, one of Europe's top 5 business schools, involving 1500 top executives and more than 50 companies and with the help of 10 full time researchers, we discovered that the distinctive success factor, common to the most successful companies of the 21st century is: a very strong internal business culture, with people who strongly identify themselves with their company and its mission.
EffCo is constantly pursuing a close relationship with its clients. Therefore, EffCo inaugurated its new offices in Istanbul, Turkey. Located in the Maslak financial district, the new office will provide services directly to all our clients in Middle East and Southern Europe.
EffCo has signed an important agreement with the Italian Chamber of Commerce (Camera di Commercio Italiana) to become their provider for management consulting services.
