Targeted process analysis for your success
Horn & Company is your partner for using data to increase process efficiency.
Data-driven optimization of processes
With our data-driven approach, we improve processes sustainably – in short time and with low burden on the customer organization. With our data-driven approaches, we leverage the efficiency potential in your business processes. With methods, such as process mining, we achieve 360° transparency about your current processes and identify weaknesses and their root-causes. As a top management consultancy with in-depth industry and business expertise, we go one important step further: Based on proven best practices, we develop implementable measures in close cooperation with our clients that achieve a sustainable positive P&L impacts. You benefit from our experience from more than 300 successful process optimization projects.
Our process analytics experts
Selected references of Process Mining projects
End to end process optimization
Challenge
Time-consuming manual activities and interventions, long throughput times and insufficient customer focus are common process problems that we identify in our data-driven process mining projects. These process problems not only cause unnecessary costs, but also reduce sales and margins in the medium term, especially if customers are dissatisfied with the process quality. Our experience shows that many problems can only be solved if processes are analyzed end-to-end in a data-driven manner. Using process mining, we provide complete transparency about the frequency of problems and, above all, identify the causes - regardless of whether these are interface problems, poorly parameterized ERP systems or structural problems in the organization.
Solution Strategy
We provide an objective 360° X-ray image of the processes in place with the weak points and their causes. In addition to the transparency of the actual processes, you receive an objective recording of the actual process problems and their relevance with regard to costs, earnings and customer orientation. Based on the actual processes and the quantity structures, we work with your process experts to develop a coordinated roadmap with detailed short and medium-term measures. You benefit from our tried-and-tested catalog of measures from more than 300 end-to-end optimizations.
Working capital optimization
Challenge
Cash is king - against the backdrop of highly volatile economic development and fragile supply chains, the ability to manage working capital (WOC) in a targeted manner is an important competitive advantage. Be it to increase delivery capability and flexibility or to create sufficient liquidity for investments in promising future projects, for organic growth and to comply with balance sheet parameters. We use state-of-the-art process analytics methods to optimize accounts receivable, accounts payable and inventories.
Solution Strategy
Our data-driven end-to-end approach to working capital optimization identifies causes and levers for reducing tied-up capital. This affects the entire cash conversion cycle across the entire value chain. Our process mining approach enables us to identify interdependencies across divisions. Our in-depth understanding of systems and data enables us to analyze your system parameters (e.g. scheduling parameters) and master data (e.g. payment and delivery terms). Using simulations, we calculate an optimal parameterization so that you can make an optimal choice in the trade-off between capital costs and availability.
Our working capital projects lead to inventory reductions of up to 35% with a simultaneous increase in availability. In addition to inventory reductions, we reduce receivables by up to 30% and increase trade payables by up to 40%.
ERP implementation support
Challenge
The introduction of a new ERP system - whether S/4HANA, MS Dynamics or proAlpha - is an important step for many companies to optimize business processes and increase efficiency - towards a digital, networked, automated end-to-end process landscape with near-time availability and visualization of even large amounts of data. Processes should become more agile, faster and (cost-) more efficient. However, many companies have failed with their ERP implementation or have not achieved the potential they had hoped for.
Solution Strategy
We show you which measures can turn an ERP transformation into a clear benefit case - regardless of whether you are currently planning the transformation, are in the process of transformation or have already completed the transformation phase. The H&C approach offers a package of measures to increase efficiency that is tailored to your business processes depending on the respective transformation phase.
Our approach enables you to develop a strategy and roadmap focused on efficiency and P&L potential with detailed packages of measures tailored to the individual needs and requirements of your organization.
With our approach, the transformation becomes a clear benefit case,...
- ...as well-integrated ERP systems offer powerful process automation approaches to enable a significant reduction of FTEs,
- ...as a well-adjusted ERP parameterization reduces the process-related inventory drivers and liquidity destroyers and thus greatly reduces working capital, and
- ...as lower error rates and faster throughput times increase process quality and thus significantly improve the customer experience.