Development of an individual, group-wide training program for managers on the digitization of manufacturing companies

Location ➤ The Netherlands

Customer

A multi-national company with over 230 productions sites worldwide. Their production site in Veghel, Netherlands is one of the biggest chocolate factories around the world, producing some of the most popular chocolate bars.

Challenge

The challenge was to build a group-wide internal education program with current, relevant topics on digital strategy, digital transformation, status quo and roadmap creation, calculation of ROI on Industrie 4.0, building digitization teams, Internet of Production and best practices.

Approach

The first step was to assess the status quo to identify the biggest operational challenges and estimate the potential. Based on this, we defined overall work streams, created roadmaps together for these, and defined detailed project plans. We were then able to establish a program structure that included tools to define projects and track and evaluate the current project status.

Results

The result of this collaboration was an effective digitalization program management for an efficient transformation, which we had launched after only 8 weeks. By co-creating a detailed roadmap and project charter that included required resources, budget, and estimated impact, we were able to identify the digitalization potential of 10-15%.