

Case Study
Project Manager controlling at global manufacturer and distributor of leisure equipment
Projektmanager Controlling
Company Details
- Global manufacturer and distributor of leisure equipment and vehicle components
- Approx. EUR 3 billion turnover with 9,000 employees worldwide
- Location: largest plant in the EMEA organization with approx. 500 employees
Situation and Challenge
- Employees who had been on board for a long time left the company at the same time
- Missing or unstable structures; slow and complex processes; low level of digitization and documentation; Lack of significance of controlling
Measures and Procedures
- Standardization of the historically grown multitude of structures and calculation methods for the same facts
- Complete revision of the most important reports (layout, content, calculations)
- Creation of a temporary digitalization solution in Excel
- Identification of the optimal digitalization solution via corporate performance management tool
- Simplification of control and approval processes, often even elimination of processes or relocation to the responsible departments
Results and Achievements
- Increase in steering ability; Reduction of manual control effort at the site by 0.5 man-years
- Potential with CPM: Transferable at the site and to all plants: reduction of a total of 1.5 man-years (-75% from baseline)
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