Description
Holmatro designs, produces, tests and delivers hydraulic equipment and systems for industrial applications and technical rescue services. Holmatro has branches in the Netherlands, the US, the People’s Republic of China, Poland and the UK as well as a global coverage dealer network.

Opportunities
Holmatro set up an improvement program to further improve:

• efficiency i.e. lower on-hand stock;
• responsiveness i.e. shorten lead-times;
• reliability i.e. transparent and consistent administrative processes from order-2-cash.

Solution

• Description of the critical control points in the materials flow chain.
• Design of new business processes for:
  • Forecasting planning and production;
  • Order-2-cash;
  • Purchase-2-pay.

Benefits

• Logistics operational excellence program;
• Functional process design, serving as a blueprint for IT;
• Change management to tear down functional silos and create the right cross functional mindset.