Discrete Manufacturing

The production industry is facing a number of tough challenges. Increasingly complex global business structures and networks, simultaneously stiffening competition and costs pose a big challenge to the struggle to survive in business. Other such reasons for ever increasing challenges to business managers and business areas such as Production, Quality management, IT, Controlling and Logistics are the ever shortening life-cycles and the simultaneously exploding product variance.

Producing a cable harness for the automobile industry alone today requires up to 2,500 varying components. And yet the lag between customer orders and delivery is only four days. And this figure is still falling. At the same time, buying markets are disappearing from the market with increasing globalisation. This implies that cost reduction on purchase requires turning to more exotic markets. These markets are often characterised by great geographical distance, unstable political conditions or insufficient infrastructure, which again leads to delays. But time has become one of the most important resources for all business areas to survive on the international market.

Well-structured business architecture with transparent processes and optimally-matched technologies has become a critical prerequisite for a business to react quickly and flexibly.

Process Standardisation and Harmonisation are becoming increasingly important under these circumstances. At the same time, they constitute one of the biggest challenges for those responsible. In order to be able to exploit the advantages of standardisation e.g. Economies of Scale and international Comparability of processes, global, methodically correct and comprehensive Process Management has to be applied so as to identify the processes and partial processes which have the potential to be accomplished simultaneously. Harmonising processes and therefore optimal reconciliation of individual process-steps, including minimising losses, requires a clear definition of inputs/outputs, responsibilities and operating figures. Achieving this in a complex global company today is only possible with the help of a suitable goal-oriented IT-based concept.

This is the reason why DHC supports you with excellent know-how on the entire value-added chain while considering your specific sector requirements.

We achieve process standardisation and harmonisation through:

• The Process theme (description and measurement of processes) 
  and also through
• The Logistics theme; ERP/SAP implementation using only an optimally applied ERP-System guarantees that the process runs consistently and is integrated to upstream and downstream process steps (harmonised).

To link up these and other goals of business strategy, with the processes under evaluation using operating figures, we apply integrated Balanced Scorecards. In this way, you have an instrument at hand to assist you in facing an ever-changing environment with a continuous improvement process. 

In addition to these general challenges there are also specific requirements within the particular areas, for example:

• Automotive
• Investment sector
• Machine, equipment and component construction
• Electronics and electronic technologies