Data, trends and opportunities will be analysed by Solving Efeso VPs Anne Plazanet, François Pradel and Pierre Maugery-Pons. This event will also provide the opportunity to exchange ideas about the emerging challenges.
The conference, organized by Solving Efeso, will be hold at Salons Etoile Wagram, Paris, at 18.30 pm.

Please download the invitation

If you would like to receive the conference proceedings, please send your request to Anne Plazanet (anne.plazanet@solvingefeso.com).

The event is a reference point for the Purchasing Directors Community.
Procurement Managers will have the opportunity to deal with the new challenges arising in the Procurement World.
The location will be the Hotel Melià of Milan. Organisation by BusinessInternational.

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The Summit will provide delegates with the opportunity to share best practices in TPM Implementation with the China JIPM Awards winners. 
A number of Case Studies from China, Japan and North America will demonstrate the challenges associated with implementing TPM.
This event is sponsored by Solving Efeso and will take place at the Shanghai Renaissance Yangtze Hotel.

The main topics will be:

• Sustainable improvement: a foundation for achieving total TPM success
• Make effective and efficient preventative maintenance plan
• Share TPM data with lean activities
• Recognise the role of OEE in TPM implementation

Click here to read the Summit Introduction & the Programme

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The Summit, organised by World Trade Group, will take place in Prague, at the Clarion Congress Hotel.
On June 9th Solving Efeso will hold an interactive workshop "Bringing the Supply Chain Strategic Vision to Reality": the way an organisation develops and executes its strategic vision for supply chain is increasingly being recognised as a potential source of competitive advantage.

This workshop will discuss findings from the recent joint Cranfield-Solving Efeso research into Supply Chain Strategy in the Boardroom and draw on the practical experience of Electrocomponents plc, a high service distributor and major Client that is successfully achieving International growth by implementing a new strategy across the business. We are pleased to have the presence of Mr. Anne Bruggink, General Manager Supply Chain at Electrocomponents Plc.

Furthermore Professor Alan Waller, VP Supply Chain Innovation at Solving Efeso will participate in the Special panel discussion on "Developing the supply chain leader of the future, today".

For more info, please visit www.supplychain.eu.com
Click here to know more about the speakers and the workshop outline.

This event, organised in Paris by Publi-News, will be dedicated to IT solutions for banking functions. Solving Efeso participates with Anne Plazanet and Pierre Maugery-Pons, VPs responsable for the Financial Services department. They will lead two workshops: 'Risk control and risk management' and 'Portfolio management and private banking'.

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The forum's theme is 'How to accelerate growth through Supply Chain in view of the economic recovery'.
The event aims to describe the Supply Chain process change due to the market economic conditions, analysing the possible scenarios with Supply Chain Managers of various sizes of companies.
Luigi Serravalle, VP Solving Efeso, will support Luca Zaglio, Logistics Services Director of Granarolo, in explaining the 'Value Creation in the Supply Chain through flexibility and optimisation' Case Study.
Mario Galassini, VP Solving Efeso, will have a Keynote Speech on 'Bringing the Executive team to effectively drive Supply Chain Strategy'.

The Forum will be held at the Hotel Regina Palace, Stresa, Italy.
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Italian banking sector reveals a scarce strategic vision of the Purchasing function, according to a survey made by Solving Efeso Italy.
In banks we see the complete absence of an organizational reference model, whereas most of the industrial and services enterprises are already equipped with.
Luigi Serravalle, VP Solving Efeso, explains the way to to create the ideal procurement structure for banks.

Read the article and for further details go to our press release.

NeT-LOG Consulting, our Logistics arm, was the designer of this technologically advanced facility located in Origgio, Varese, Italy.
The warehouse covers a large distribution footprint and has a large design capacity to store products of many multinationals Pharma customers.
The warehouse concept is innovative in the Pharma sector and challenges the traditional design concepts and accepted operational practice.
Many operating constraints have been removed thanks to the highly automated systems that drive the management of product and information flow, thus strongly reducing “human” input and the operational errors that can occur.

Read the article

The latest strategies and tactics being undertaken by leading manufacturers to improve their operations and grow their profits are annually delivered to attendees by the IndustryWeek Best Plants Conference.
Solving Efeso North & Central America team will operate a vendor booth at this show to expose our techniques and offerings for the first time in North America.
Programme available on Industrial Week website.

The 4th seminar dedicated to Six Sigma methodology in Manufacturing processes and Services is sponsorised by Solving Efeso. It will take place in Sesto S. Giovanni (MI) at Hotel Barone di Sassj from 08.30 am to 17.00 pm.

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It is the reference meeting of steel industry managers, organised by DowJones.
Niels W. Ø. Larsen, Principal at Solving Efeso, specialised in cost competitiveness & purchasing practice, will present the stainless steel industry in France, Europe and emerging countries. He will focus on cost optimization for stainless steel purchasing and illustrate it through a case history example.

Read the Programme for further details
Read the abstract and the article published by L'Observateur de l'acier on our press release.

'Creating value through brands' will be the theme of the speech of Philippe Jaegy, VP Solving Efeso, at the conference organised by Les Echos at the Espace Eurosites George V.
The main themes will be:
 - The brand as a vehicle for corporate sustainability.
 - Which strategies and which organisations should be implemented in order to speed up the value creation for brands?
- The value of brands for SMEs: financing, business transmission, reorganisations
-  Financialization for brands: which strategies are being built by investment funds?
With the participation of Jolanta BAK, President of Intuition and of Thierry Billot, Deputy Managing Director of Groupe Pernod Ricard
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'Connecting manufacturing Operational practices and Management systems to business result and the bottom line' will be the speech's theme of our VP Carlo Baroncelli and Phil Rodrigo, Senior VP Operational Excellence & Cultural Development Outokumpu .
The summit is organised by IRR Finland in Helsinki, Royal at Crowne Plaza, Mannerheimintie 50. The main subjects will be' learn to identify the processes where an organisation has time&cost losses', Make a change in operational practices &management systems atthe same time: is it feasible?', 'Lean Management implementation and commitment: real cases.

Companies and territories will be associated in the implementation of Climate Plans. How to use differences and convergences to make Corporate Energy management a successful process?
This was the topic of the Workshop organised by Solving Efeso and ATEE (Technical Association for Energy and Environment).

Read the workshop minutes in French.

Semi-processed food products & ingredients manufacturers are facing a deep transformation of their environment.
To know more read in our Press Review the abstract and article 'The sector of Semi-processed food products & ingredients must adapt to a low cost market ", written by our Vice President Philippe Jaegy 

The training consists of one day on Lean techniques and concepts and half day 'On-site Lean Assessment' to analyse the individual tasks performed in the participant's company. The training is managed by Solving Efeso.

Click here for further info and intake form in English and Dutch
Contact: Mr. Kim Cheyns (kim.cheyns@solvingefeso.com)
Mobile: +31 (0) 6 253 089 21

The final customer is the real source of profit for the entire supply chain: the service to the final customer impacts dramatically on the turnover, the market share and the value creation (...).
This is the subject of the Seminar Solving Efeso will hold in Milan the 29 October 2009, from 16.00 to 19.30 p.m. at Crowne Plaza Hotel Milan City,  Via M. Gioia, 73

Participation free. Read the full Programme

Please confirm to mara.alioli, tel. 02 4816500, fax 02 48195918
@solvingefeso.com

The aim of the conference is to propagate the WCM programme among Central East Europe’s production companies.
The theme of the conference is the use of WCM to improve the productivity of resources in the current difficult market situation.
The conference is dedicated to managers and kaizen leaders who would like to better understand the realities of WCM programme implementation. Among the speakers there will be representatives from companies such as Saint-Gobain, Heineken, Danone.
The concept of WCM is not yet widely known in manufacturing industry environment in Central East Europe. Despite this, WCM is more and more often seen as better alternative to the mainstream of excellence initiatives – Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma.
The conference is organised by Solving Efeso team in Sopot, Poland, it has local status and therefore will be conducted mostly in Polish language.

Please visit the conference page in Polish at www.konferencja-WCM.pl

The EMS event, organised by Word Trade Group, will take place in Germany, at Swiss Hotel of Dusseldorf.  On day one at 12.05 Solving Efeso will hold the interactive workshop 'Connecting manufacturing operational practices and management systems to business results and the bottom line'.
The workshop' s main themes will be:
- Accelerating operational performance improvements by using a comprehensive and proven audit system
- Benefits and insights from internal and external benchmarking
- How can manufacturing leaders deploy a structured and proven audit system?
- Client case study illustrating results achieved and key learnings from implementing an audit system, illustrated by Chirs Kerr of the group TPM Manger of Heineken.

Please click here to read the EMS full programme

Rabih Chehouri, Managing Director of Solving Efeso Middle East & Africa will be a guest speaker at the 4th MidEast CemenTrade organized by Center for Management Technology (CMT, Singapore) at the Millenium Hotel in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Rabih Chehouri will discuss the Cement Investment Opportunities in Middle East and East Africa (MEEA) addressing Cement demand/supply dynamics and Critical planning factors & economic viability.

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The Club AMPERE is a joint working group founded by 13 major asset managers and Solving Efeso and in 2007 and gathers performance measurement and financial reporting experts in asset management area.
Its objectives are to share experience on common issues, define common methodologies and standards to meet investors' requirements, and, more generally, act as a professional body on the marketplace.

Read the interview to François Pradel, VP of Solving Efeso - Financial Services practice.

'The management of operational risks has become more and more crucial for all private banks and is now a key competitive advantage (...)'

Read the article written by Pierre Maugery-Pons, Vice President, Financial Services Department, Solving Efeso France.

For further details go to our press release

Harco de Jager speaks at  EBF conference on 1-2 October on the link between the Global Crises and Supply Chain decisions of companies.
Inventory Management along the Supply Chain plays an important role on the extent in which companies suffer from the economic crises. Some industrial examples and economic data produced by Solving Efeso will be shown. Furthermore, Harco will indicate how and which supply chain decisions can make companies less vulnerable for economic fluctuations in the supply chain. 
Lean philosophy should play an essential role in streamlining the goods flow in supply chains.

The Forum will be in Milan, Grand Visconti Palace, Viale Isonzo 14.
It is organised by Business International.
Carlo Baroncelli of Solving Efeso will give a speech on 'The roads to competitivity: the dilemma between outsourcing and continuous improvement'.

'Lean, TPM, Six Sigma. Different names related to Continuous Improvement programmes aiming at the same purpouse: loss elimination in all processes to realise challenging targets. (...)' 

Read on our press release the Interview of Telegraaf to Bas Koetsier, Principal of Solving Efeso

Solving Efeso, ISTUD and Lamborghini organise a visit to Lamborghini's plant, S. Agata Bolognese, Italy'.
The visit is part of the ISTUD programme 'Touching excellence frontiers'.
Interventions of Lamborghini's management dealing with strategical development of the brand will be followed by our Gabriele Caragnano intervention on 'Engines' line re-design by using MTM-UAS technique'. 

For further information please read the programme

hi[09] is Scandinavia’s biggest industrial trade expo with a unique focus on
bringing the industry’s players face to face.
The expo will take place in Herning from 1st to 4th September 2009.

Daniela Gementi, Solving Efeso know-how officer was interviewed by Donna Impresa Magazine on the Toolkit developed under her supervision in the Milan knowledge center.

Read the article and for further details go our press review

Solving Efeso was asked by Sete (Société d'Exploitation de la tour Eiffel) to draft the first sustainable development strategy of the Tour Eiffel.

For further details go to our press release

The Toolkit developed by Solving Efeso is used by 5000 plants all over the world...
See managers' interviews on Youtube. For further details go to our press release

'...it would be a signal to replicate such an experiment on an Italian monument as Colosseum', says Luigi Serravalle, VP of Solving Efeso.
For further details go to our press review

We lead our clients towards Sustainable development strategies! Our WEBSITE will show you an original approach, a unique set of skills and a very experienced team.

The conference is organised by Solving Efeso Financial Services Department in Paris.
These last months have deeply influenced the financial management industry.
All players are wondering about the sustainable effects of these events and the most efficient strategies in order to resist, without depriving themselves of new opportunities.
The conference will show some data and observations about the last period of time, concerning the major worries:
- Operational efficiency: how to adapt the industrial methods,
- Outsourcing: how to buy in a better way,
- Risk management: how to take into account risks in strategic decisions.

If interested in the conference please send an e-mail to nathalie.grange@solvingefeso.com

"... Nowadays information is overloading us. The new challenge is to organise information to properly support the users". For further details visit our press review  and find the article 'Knowledge management changes face'

The conference will be co-hosted by Solving Efeso Financial Services Department and by SLIB company, on the 18th of June 2009, in Paris.

If you are interested in this conference, please send an e-mail to nathalie.grange@solvingefeso.com

The 11th Annual European Supply Chain & Logistics (SCL) Summit organised by World Trade Group will once again this year be held at the Swissôtel in Düsseldorf. The event brings together senior executives and supply chain practitioners from leading international companies over three days to explore and debate the key supply chain challenges and opportunities that businesses face.
Solving Efeso is participating for a third successful year having contributed widely to the events’ editorial content and thought leadership on subjects such as Supply Chain Strategy, Complexity Management and Supply Chain Leadership skills.
This year Solving Efeso is delighted to be represented as Lead Operations Excellence Sponsor at SCL Summit 2009 in recognition of the expansion of the company’s proprietary “world class operations management” (WCOM™) system into the full supply chain – which now includes modules for logistics, sales and operations planning and demand driven supply chain management.

Clive Geldard, Vice-President Retail & Supply Chain and Dr Peter Laurence, Associate Director will host a special interactive workshop during Day 1 of the conference under the theme:
“Connecting Demand with Supply – how to achieve a commercially effective supply chain through world class practices in demand management, sales and operations”.

In the present economic environment, no company can afford to tolerate losses that may result from disconnects between demand and supply – excess inventories, bad asset utilisation, poor customer service and failed product launches.
This interactive workshop will address how the best companies are raising the bar in standards of commercial supply chain management, better aligning demand and supply side functions to drive increased customer value and lower total cost to serve.
Key topics to be addressed will be;
•  Differentiating “good complexity” from “bad complexity”
•  What Operations excellence means in demand management and executive S&OP
•  Stakeholder engagement – achieving a breakthrough in supply chain relationship
   management
Solving Efeso clients and guests wishing to attend SCL Summit 2009 are able to qualify for a discounted delegate fee by quoting Solving Efeso when making their booking. For further information about the SCL Summit go to http://www.scleurope.com  

New Danish office of Solving Efeso established on June 1st 2009.
The office location is Copenhagen.

The lecture will take place the 25 April 2009 in Waseda University of Tokyo, one of Japan's top private, co-educational institutions of higher learning.
The subject will be 'The new challenge for the growth: Strategy, Change Management and Operational Excellence'.

The lecture will have place on 19 May 2009. Solving Efeso CEO will expound the innovative approach to strategy promoted by his group: 'Strategy in Action'.

The Italian review 'Panorama Economics' remarks that the crisis is not affecting such consultancy firms dealing with cost optimisation.
Solving Efeso represents a clear example, with a turnover increase of 7,4% in 2008 and a net income of 2 million euro.
The result is due to 50 new clients, ten leading multinationals included.
The Italian Solving Efeso branch contributes with 16,2% to the groups turnover.

Read the full article on our press review.

One-day seminar on six sigma methodology in Milan at Hotel Novotel Ca' Granda from 08.30-17.30. The major topic will be the connection of quality management and process improvement with statistics and six sigma methodology.
Some projects on quality improvement, company performance improvement through strategic plans, service improvement analysis as well as research & development will be analysed and discussed by their own authors during the seminar.
For Solving Efeso Mario Galassini will present a case study on business process improvement and Francesco Lecis a case study on Statistical Process Control in the brewing industry.

Please click here for further details and Application Form

The financial meltdown of the 4th quarter of 2008 changed the world forever. And so should your strategies, especially if you are a leader in the real estate industry.
Rabih Chehouri, Hicham Bou Habib and Jean Veillon of Solving Efeso conceived a Report providing thoughtful ideas and practical methodologies that will help real estate professionals unlock the value “trapped” in their real estate projects – planned, under construction or completed – within the current economic downturn.

Read the report

Rabih Chehouri, Managing Director of Solving Efeso, Middle East and Africa, discusses market demand planning, risk assessment and successful investment strategies in the emerging economies of the Middle East.

Visit our press review to read the full article and its abstract

Jérôme Martinon, expert on financial services of Solving Efeso, provides explanations in his article on Gestion Privée Magazine.
Read the abstract and full article in our press release.

Silently, the bank in Cidade de Deus is preparing to reduce the difference that is separating it from the bank created by the Itaú and Unibanco merger.

Read the abstract and complete interview to Antonio Bento on Solving Efeso Press review

The consultancy firms are keen to promote their services and offer companies ways out of the financial quagmire and onto solid footing. Consultancies tend to form their teams with a mixture of disciplines, experience and academia. They may not be super heroes but they can resuscitate ailing concerns and give them a new breath of life.
Rabih Chehouri and Thomas de Bellaigue explain Solving Efesos approach to Islamic Banking.

Visit our press review to read the full article and its abstract

The Sustainable Development and the Product & Process development experts of Solving Efeso develop their thought in compliance with environmental policy and explain how it can enhance innovation.
With the testimonials of Saint-Gobain and Galia.

Read the Strategy in action newsletter, published in Sept-Oct 2008.

The Product & Process development experts of Solving Efeso explain how to develop worldwide collaboration in order to enhance innovation.
With the testimonials of major companies as Areva and Lenovo and of an expert from ESSEC-ISIS.

Reed the Strategy in action newsletter, published in May-June 2008