COSTS management

Hospital Mãe de Deus

Mãe de Deus Hospital in the city of Porto Alegre belongs to the Saint Carlos Borromeu Carlista-Scalabriniana Congregation and was founded in 1979 offering complete health solutions from diagnosis to treatment focused in providing a humanized service, safe and centered in the solution of each case. Its structure has 380 beds and more than 1700 doctors accredited.

OBJECTIVE

Mãe de Deus hired us for a project to elaborate a reference board in the Hospital to identify opportunities in cost reduction and improvement of productivity in the internal processes and services provided with the identification of opportunities to be explored.

PROJECT

During the project, the main processes and their influences in the cost chain were mapped for the creation of a management cockpit to support decision making showing short, medium and long term actions to reduce costs and improvement of productivity with management comments and suggestions based on the analysis made. A departmental analysis was made considering processes, indicators and opportunities, with the creation of a reference board containing the analysis and observations gathered during the phases of the project and suggestions of the consultancy to promote significant improvements in the productivity and cost optimization.

RESULTS

Having a comprising mapping of the operations of the organization, Mãe de Deus could locate the areas with inefficiencies to be solved in order to reduce costs and achieve more efficiency of their services. With the identification of more adequate performance indicators and the way of attributing values and monitoring them, adding the suggestions proposed at the end of the project, it was possible to restructure processes and tasks to optimize their operations.

AM PM

The largest chain of convenience stores in Brazil, AmPm belongs to Ipiranga’s service stations granting them the concept of a “Complete Service Station” and essential products to the population and complementing the revenue necessary to the economic balance of the station as a whole. Currently there are more than 1700 stores, including franchising ones, that keep investing in different concepts and fulfilling the needs of fuel and grocery in neighborhoods, acting as a real minimarket and also having the model AmPm Station usually located in roads, that offers restaurants, pizzerias, coffee shops, bakery and convenience all together.

OBJECTIVE

AmPm was looking for a tool to simulate retail price formation for their product from the many parameters of tax nature, costs involved, kinds of transactions developed, target margins, incentives, promotions, among others, automatizing the gathering of information to form those prices and updating their price tables to the many groups of clients and states according to the distribution center of origin.

PROJECT

Way/Amadeus developed a solution that became the Pricing System of AmPm, integrated to the databases of the ERP and to the sales system of the organization, providing the update of retail prices, stock with analysis of rupture at any time and in a systematic way twice a day.

RESULTS

AmPm now can evaluate on a daily basis the profitability of the products and optimized their response capacity to the oscillations of costs and market price. The simulations of the many different buying and selling price scenarios, related to the distribution channel and retail points, support the decisions of the commercial area, as for the formation of competitive price table as well as promotions and in the suggestion of purchase prices in the negotiations with suppliers.

Minu

Founded in 1946, Companhia Minuano de Alimentos was established as a small factory of paper packaging and typography. In 1955, it changed industry and started in the aviculture field. In the 70s it became one of the largest companies producing meats and poultry in Brazil. Currently, Minuano is a vertical operation in avicultural integration raging from a matrix farm to production and slaughter of birds, guaranteeing quality to each part of the process.

OBJECTIVE

The company required Way/Amadeus’s methodology to perform a work of assessment and system and process audit focused on the review of all their operations.

PROJECT

We performed a work to understand in detail the purpose of the activities of each one of the areas and their tasks, therefore it was possible to execute a mapping locating points to be improved for cost and time reduction.

RESULTS

With the understanding of the processes and their interrelations it was possible to locate the points with bottlenecks, inefficiencies and rework, as well as all the operational segment that was assessed for the optimization of the process of decomposition of the primarily raw material to manufacture the many final products that will be commercialized by Minu.

Kepler Weber

Founded in 1926, Kepler Weber is in the agribusiness sector, in the post-harvest stage of the productive chain of grains. The company manufactures equipment for storage, processing and vats moving, being specialized in the development of complete solutions for storage.

OBJECTIVE

The company looked for Way/Amadeus’s methodology to perform a work of system assessment and audit focused on the search of improvements for the areas of engineering and technology that historically had a very high number of employees and manual operations and there was a great difficulty of integrating these activities.

PROJECT

A work was developed to understand with details the objective of the work of each one of the areas and, therefore, it was possible to locate the points to be improved to obtain cost and time reduction. We established standards for the silos and constructions that allowed the use of premolded and premanufactured units according to the nature of each project of Kepler Weber.

RESULTS

With the use of these premolded, steps of engineering were eliminated, reducing the number of employees and achieving better organization and safety in the construction sites, predictability of costs and shorter deadlines for delivery. The results were so expressive that Kepler Weber became benchmarking for other companies of the industry.

Marcopolo

Marcopolo, with headquartes in the city of Caxias do Sul, RS, is the largest company in Latin America and the third in the world manufacturing bus bodies, being responsible for almost half of the national production. They have 10 plants around the world and their buses are present in more than a hundred countries. Their plants are located in the American, African and Asian continents.

OBJECTIVES

The board of directors of the organization hired our expertise in projects related to business management and processes because they needed to have a better understanding of their processes, especially in the procurement area, in order to improve efficiency.

PROJECT

A global sourcing Project was developed involving also a team of foreign consultants that brought innovative Technologies for procurement. The use of Way/Amadeus’s tool was fundamental to have a deeper understanding of the processes and relations of the procurement area with the others aiming an optimization of tasks and procedures.

RESULTS

The objective was achieved as verified by the increase in efficiency and decrease of operations in the area of procurement and supplies of the company. One of the most interesting aspects of the project is that it was provided to Marcopolo the performance of a collaborative benchmarking with Boeing so that some of the initiatives were therefore designed in a way that both companies could acquire together some materials they both use.

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BR Distribuidora

Petrobras Distribuidora, with headquarters in the city of Rio de Janeiro is a former subsidiary of Petrobras, created in 1971 with more than 7200 service stations all over Brazil and an organizational structure composed by 301 agencies and, at the time of the Project was the second biggest company in the country.

OBJECTIVE

Having as sponsor the president of the organization, the Project has its main focus in cost and inefficiencies reduction, from the mapping of areas, their processes and relations.

PROJECT

Way/Amadeus employing its software with ability to recognize all inputs and verifying if they are being adequately processed in the destination area, performed the Project in phases interacting with the areas that described their businesses, products, internal and external interactions, suppliers, clients and processes. With a formal representation of these elements and their validation, it was possible, therefore, to search associated metrics and indicators to measure operational efficiency.

RESULTS

With modelling and analysis of these metrics and indicators, it was possible to improve processes with clarity and focus, eliminating redundancies of products and assets sent and not used, double processes and rework, cutting out unnecessary costs with the implementation of the optimization of efficiencies, making each management better qualified in performing their processes faster and more safely making decisions