Dr. Schönheit + Partner
Global operations consulting
benefit from our 25 years of experience
it’s never been more complex
Multinational companies have never faced a more complex environment. Disruptive technologies, overall increase in cost, raw material availability, new legislative requirements and worldwide crises have created a volatile environment for operations across the world. Handling this situation will require transnational thinking, multi-country chance initiatives and multicultural expertise.
Decision makers now face challenges such as:
- Implementing a standard operational excellence system adaptable to their whole network
- Increasing efficiency and effectiveness for manual labor to preserve competitiveness
- Finding the optimal fit between human assets and automation even in low wage countries
- Comply to new legislative requirements in distant sites and with global partners
- Communicating across different time zones with different cultural backgrounds
To cope with today’s challenges, it is important to use a structured and goal-oriented approach to generate valuable and lasting solutions. Dr. Schönheit + Partner provides you with the supporting structure tailored to your needs. Using our expertise from 25 years of experience in operational excellence projects and our multicultural background we ensure that you safely steer your company towards your desired goal. Whether this means developing a global operational excellence program, implementing a productivity increase initiative, developing an automation concept, or analyzing and improving your global supply chain.
To generate lasting success, decision makers need a competent and reliable partner supporting them. At Dr. Schönheit + Partner we work in integrated teams together with your experts and management to develop holistic concepts for your specific situation. Naturally, we also help you to fully implement the concept within your system.
In a nutshell
- Ever more complex environments require goal-oriented and holistic optimization
- Multi-country change is only possible with multicultural expertise
- Automation and digitalization will become even more important
- Increasing efficiency and effectiveness for manual labor are key
- Updated western supply chain management (SCM) regulations require transparency across whole processes
We are here to help you in your journey
What we bring to the table
successful OPEX transformations worldwide
consultants with broad intercultural experience
global excellence systems implemented
production sites designed and built worldwide
people trained in OPEX tools and skills
focal point for all your Operations Consulting needs
Tried and tested approach
Our S + P model for your success
25 years of experience in operations management consulting have enabled us to design a framework which allows us to dive deep into your processes without losing sight of the overarching goals – both on site and remote, which means that our expertise is available to you from anywhere in the world.
Dr. Schönheit + Partner‘s „5 Phase Implementation Framework“ is designed as an approach to guarantee development and full scale implementation of optimal solutions. Key in successfully applying this approach is to inspire your people for change and to implement the change pragmatically.

analysis
Understand: Create a common and holistic understanding of the object of analysis and all major influencing factors

design
Innovate: Design modern management and work systems within your company, supported by innovative methods

implementation
Learning cells: Start implementation in a controlled environment with the possibility of adjusting the concept

Change
Leading Change: Full-scale implementation of improved concepts across all levels within your organization

Integration
Sustain: Integrate optimization in the DNA of your organization and reap the benefits of your improved system
S + P’s global consulting service portfolio
Your Success is what we do
LEAD TO LEAN® ASSESSMENT
Put your operations to the test with our Lead to Lean® Assessment and compare your system with more than 150 production sites worldwide. In our assessment (both on site and remote available), you will find out where your company stands internationally compared to other production sites. You will also receive precise instructions on how to change your work and management system. Our approach is based on tangible values with a view to national and cultural differences in management. Find out what’s in your organization!
EXCELLENCE SYSTEMS
Together with you, we develop and implement an intelligent operational excellence system that your employees can embody. The six principles that are part of our own Lead to Lean® approach (Value, Flow, Pull, Simple, Robust, and Synchronous) put a model at your disposal to initiate necessary changes. We focus on the increase of value and process optimization to avoid unnecessary costs as we develop and implement a sustainable operational excellence system in your corporation – on site and worldwide. The results: a higher degree of flexibility, efficiency, productivity, and quality.
OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
Customer requirements are continuously becoming more complex: Besides customer centricity, short delivery times, low costs, small batch sizes, and a wide variety of models, customers require increased flexibility in the delivery of their products. To guarantee competitiveness and lasting success, it is necessary to optimize both the in-house value-adding processes and the complete supply chain. We help you to optimize your network structures and processes by shortening long order throughput times, reducing overstock of raw material and finished goods, avoiding unnecessary transports of material and information, increasing the degree of automation, and streamlining the planning and controlling process within the whole network.
FACTORY MASTER PLAN
We plan the factory of the future for you and with you – from the inside out. If the location of your new factory is yet to be decided, we help you define your future manufacturing footprint. Once key strategic decisions have been made, our interdisciplinary team of planners designs your factory based on expected production volumes and best-in-class operations, providing you with a flexible, modular, and transparent factory layout. Our factory master plan approach gives you a specific answer on future space requirements, timelines, and the economic feasibility of your project. All elements necessary for you to make an informed and timely decision for your factory.
GLOBAL QUALIFICATION PROGRAMM
„Learning on the spot“ is the key for change processes, as you only see what you know. Using the “Train the Trainer” approach, S + P Coaching enables the simplification, and improvement of key processes. The successful rollout of a lasting change process is assured by an individual training program – from methodical know-how to project management tools. Operational excellence and change management training under real conditions ensure the quality of the change. We coach target-oriented and on an equal footing with your employees, to make them key multipliers in the existing work process for your factory of the future. Thus, we generate success which can be experienced and celebrated.

LEAD TO LEAN® ASSESSMENT
Put your operations to the test with our Lead to Lean® Assessment and compare your system with more than 150 production sites worldwide. In our assessment (both on site and remote available), you will find out where your company stands internationally compared to other production sites. You will also receive precise instructions on how to change your work and management system. Our approach is based on tangible values with a view to national and cultural differences in management. Find out what’s in your organization!

EXCELLENCE SYSTEMS
Together with you, we develop and implement an intelligent operational excellence system that your employees can embody. The six principles that are part of our own Lead to Lean® approach (Value, Flow, Pull, Simple, Robust, and Synchronous) put a model at your disposal to initiate necessary changes. We focus on the increase of value and process optimization to avoid unnecessary costs as we develop and implement a sustainable operational excellence system in your corporation – on site and worldwide. The results: a higher degree of flexibility, efficiency, productivity, and quality.

OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
Customer requirements are continuously becoming more complex: Besides customer centricity, short delivery times, low costs, small batch sizes, and a wide variety of models, customers require increased flexibility in the delivery of their products. To guarantee competitiveness and lasting success, it is necessary to optimize both the in-house value-adding processes and the complete supply chain. We help you to optimize your network structures and processes by shortening long order throughput times, reducing overstock of raw material and finished goods, avoiding unnecessary transports of material and information, increasing the degree of automation, and streamlining the planning and controlling process within the whole network.

FACTORY MASTER PLAN
We plan the factory of the future for you and with you – from the inside out. If the location of your new factory is yet to be decided, we help you define your future manufacturing footprint. Once key strategic decisions have been made, our interdisciplinary team of planners designs your factory based on expected production volumes and best-in-class operations, providing you with a flexible, modular, and transparent factory layout. Our factory master plan approach gives you a specific answer on future space requirements, timelines, and the economic feasibility of your project. All elements necessary for you to make an informed and timely decision for your factory.

GLOBAL QUALIFICATION PROGRAMM
„Learning on the spot“ is the key for change processes, as you only see what you know. Using the “Train the Trainer” approach, S + P Coaching enables the simplification, and improvement of key processes. The successful rollout of a lasting change process is assured by an individual training program – from methodical know-how to project management tools. Operational excellence and change management training under real conditions ensure the quality of the change. We coach target-oriented and on an equal footing with your employees, to make them key multipliers in the existing work process for your factory of the future. Thus, we generate success which can be experienced and celebrated.
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