Cosmo Tech

Our client is an international car manufacturer evolving in a very competitive market, where there is a downward demand with an aggressive price competition and strong pressure on production costs. They need to reduce production costs as much as possible by choosing new materials for their car production.

There are many changes to implement in car production comprised of numerous tasks, from models to design, technology and process point of views. The goal is to ensure that the modifications will be implemented as soon as possible in order to maximize cost savings on production, without disturbing other on-going activities.

By re-prioritizing certain tasks, the production planning manager was able to save production costs by 8% while implementing the new modification on time, but not all modifications already planned. By subcontracting certain tasks for the testing phase, it will allow him to respect all initially defined deadlines and achieve 9% cost savings.

As a result, our customer found that the optimal solution was to subcontract testing phase for this implementation of the modification, because it will allow him to respect deadlines and achieve the best objectives in terms of cost savings on production.

With Cosmo Tech Plan, our production planning manager was able to:

• Build a smoother and more resilient product modification planning;
• Identify and overcome bottlenecks,
• Manage multiple high-impact improvement projects simultaneously,
• Target team reinforcement efforts,
• Forecast expected savings and evaluate the best solution to implement modifications.