Industrial companies are under pressure to improve their cost position. This especially applies to material and direct production costs. More often than not, however, indirect production-related processes are disregarded, or outsourced – despite their enormous cost-saving potential.
Projects aimed at holistically improving the efficiency of quality, maintenance, and logistics produce savings between 15 and 25 percent – and they effectively support those areas generating direct value added. Systematically optimizing indirect processes would give rise to additional measures for safeguarding production locations in Europe.
