for Givaudan, the largest food flavor and fragrance company, to design and implement the global Lean program, “Journey to world-class efficiency”. Over 400 improvement projects in 20 factories improved operating performance in a significant and also sustainable way. With focus on capital and labor intensive processes, it streamlined the way products are created, made, moved and sold. As a result, throughput speed and productivity doubled in key areas through targeted waste-reduction, load leveling, and flow management. The program delivered CHF 36 million ($36 million) in bottom line savings and absorbed growth.
Facts & Figures
- Industry: food ingredients
- Revenue: CHF 5.1b ($5.1b)
- Scope: operations, quality
- Sites: AR, AU, BR, CH, CN, DE, EG, HU, ID, JP, 2 NL, 2 SG, 5 US, ZA
- Duration: 36 months
- Support: 600 days
- Role: interim manager
“Global Head of Lean” - Trained: over 2,000
- Certified: 461 Lean Belts
- Yellow Belts: 398
- Green Belts: 46
- Black Belts: 17
- Impact: CHF 36 million
- 93% cost savings
- 7% absorbed growth
Client Feedback
"I worked with Joerg Muenzing over the last 3+ years in his consulting function as Global Head of Givaudan Flavours Lean initiative. During this period Joerg created and led the global Lean Program, “journey to world-class efficiency”. As part of our profitability improvement initiative he focused on sustainable reduce costs and cycle times. The program delivered significant bottom line impact from embedding lean principles across 20 prioritized manufacturing sites; it further evolved as an engine for cultural change and performance improvement."
Our Lean program further evolved as an engine for cultural change and performance improvement. In a nutshell Joerg's skills and capabilities enabled the creation of value beyond the initial expectations. Further, he is an experienced change agent. His work made a significant contribution to our organization and I can only recommend him for any operations improvement program, especially those with a global footprint."
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