Problem: A Fortune 500 consumer packaged goods business goods company was tasked with fueling its business by developing and launching products more focused on a heightened consumer experience while lowering the cost of goods above inflation.
Solution: This company got a boost that created better products and a more agile organization that delivers savings and innovation to the market more quickly and reliably.
Problem: A Fortune 500 Food company needed to jump into action to identify and develop a detailed and actional Cost of Goods Savings project, which leadership expected to implement quickly.
Solution: The new COGS Savings projects led to improved best practices to holistically manage margins in the future, with immediate savings that were not just one-off opportunities but sustainable as the company continued to grow.
Problem: A Fortune 500 Consumer Packaged Goods Company sought immediate cost savings at a key manufacturing site. Although they had an ongoing cost saving and OEE improvement plan, they needed additional expertise and interventions to implement their plan.
Solution: This company got the boost it needed by identifying additional opportunities for cost savings (10% of spend) and OEE improvements (7%) over 1-2 years. The result was a better understanding of losses within the value chain, a prioritized focus on the losses, and a more involved and motivated team.
Problem: A Fortune 500 Consumer Packaged Goods Company’s highly specialized team was focused on cost and margin improvement but needed a boost to continue to grow.
Solution: A Boost team of consultants who held senior roles in General Management, Innovation/R&D, and Supply Chain worked with the team to supplement the in-house team and create a more robust vision and operating model to improve value contribution to the company.
Problem: In an ongoing cost and margin improvement program, a Fortune 500 company saw an opportunity to improve its transportation system by achieving target shipped loads per day while meeting or exceeding customer requirements.
Solution: An advanced modeling and simulation technology determined which variables impacted the system resulting in a process modification that included where and how finished goods are shipped to customers.
Problem: A Fortune 500 Consumer Package Goods company had accelerated growth, but gross margins were under pressure.
Solution: A holistic margin management initiative helped to determine the root cause of this issue, and the “end to end” multifunctional approach helped develop robust cost savings and a margin-enhancing pipeline.
Problem: A Fortune 500 company needed to deliver savings and margin improvement in the retail corrugate and club offerings and was looking for viable technical design, manufacturing, and sales/marketing opportunities to deliver 5% savings.
Solution: A thorough exploration of opportunities in corrugate design, materials, procurement procedures, artwork/decoration, and warehousing/logistics reduced the upcharge for premium club corrugated cases without degrading the consumer/shopper club experience.
Problem: Fortune 500 Company was seeking both immediate and mid-term savings.
Solution: Process and partnerships quickly identified and quantified opportunities while coaching and guidance executed YR1 savings of $1MM within 12 months of kickoff and an additional $1MM+ savings in process.
Problem: A Fortune 50 Consumer Packaged Goods Company’s Global Home Care Business Unit sought cost savings and efficiencies to meet its financial goals.
Solution: This team got the boost they needed with an external perspective that helped to create disruptive and executable solutions.
Problem: A Fortune 500 Brand had a lineup of bags with multiple changeovers at the bag supplier that was complex, costly, and interfered with 2025 sustainability goals.
Solution: New strategic and execution resources gave this packaging a boost in implementation.
Problem: To fulfill their Ellen McArtur Global Commitment, a Fortune 500 Company wanted to clarify and shape a sustainability goal to convert to plastic packaging that is recyclable, reusable, or compostable by 2025.
Solution: A focus and strategic approach with a key business unit boosted progress towards their goal. This updated strategy gave the company a higher probability of success.
Problem: A Fortune 500 Consumer Packaged Goods Company had packaging sustainability goals but needed a strategy to meet them.
Solution: A thorough portfolio review and assessment of the company’s current process was compared to market trends and peer companies and gave the company a boost in understanding gaps, opportunities, and potential interventions to improve delivery against sustainability goals, along with a clear action plan and dashboard to not only track their progress and motivate employees, consumers, and other stakeholders.
Problem: A Fortune 500 Consumer Packaged Goods company needed a vision and a roadmap to lead customers to their new anti-aging brand.
Solution: We boosted expectations by developing a multi-year, consumer-based innovation/initiative vision, along with an actionable roadmap for their portfolio of products, creating a new business model to achieve the designed consumer experience for the brand.
Problem: A Fortune 500 Consumer Goods company was battling a new competitor disrupting one of its most profitable businesses, taking high-volume users and causing significant profit pressure.
Solution: A new business and economic model gave this brand the boost it needed by reframing the consumer value proposition. The team explored iOT connected appliances to better understand what would delight consumers and increase shareholder value through these new connected business models, which provided enough data for commercial and technical leaders to make better-informed decisions in 90 days.
Problem: A Fortune 500 Vitamins, Minerals, and Supplements company was searching for innovation agility to remain relevant in the market following slow and ineffective launches of new products.
Solution: The company’s R&D innovation productivity got a boost by discovering the root causes of its R&D resourcing. Boost gave the company a plan to more quickly and predictably scale new products for manufacture.
Problem: A Fortune 500 Consumer Packaged Goods company with deep R&D and regulatory in antibacterial platforms technologies was seeking fresh perspectives from their chemical systems.
Solution: They got the boost they needed with a new approach to identify alternative strategies to chemical systems with natural and sustainable solutions.
Problem: A rapidly growing Fortune 1000 Food and Beverage company didn’t have the experience to leverage its core technology and device competencies into adjacencies and white spaces.
Solution: An experienced multifunctional team of Business, Consumer, and Technical experts with the collective experience to fully develop new opportunities was created to boost a new business creation process.
Problem: A Fortune 50 company’s Front End innovation team needed to develop two new businesses using core technology and know-how quickly.
Solution: This team got the boost they needed by creating a new business case, which included strategic, technical, operational, and market viability, and delivered an overall go/no go approach and business case.
Problem: A Fortune 500 Company’s International Division with a history of success with lean business and functions had to meet new management expectations for growth and profit.
Solution: This R&D organization got a boost in transformation by balancing the use of existing infrastructure, work process, and approach with rapid piloting and adoption of new elements, which closed gaps and created new capabilities.
Problem: A Fortune 500 Company’s skincare brand was consistently losing market share over the past six years and had become lost in a sea of skincare brands.
Solution: A new strategy gave this brand a boost thanks to a small, high-impact team that created a set of powerful demos that celebrated the brand’s unique equity and effectiveness within a challenging regulatory environment to better differentiate to the consumer.
Problem: A Fortune 500 Consumer Packaged Goods Company wanted to use world-class Demo Visualizations to support aggressive growth plans in specific categories.
Solution: A best-in-class Demo Visualization program gave this company the boost it needed to support two key categories facing competitive pressure.
