Implementing the Corporate Excellence Practice Among APAC Sites for a Worldwide Energy Giant

Overview

Our client, a worldwide enegry giant, wants to implement a corporate industrial excellence practice, called “6 Golden Rules” among APAC sites. KEPLER offers a strategy: an industrial excellence practice, based on assessing maturity level and deploying this practice in a pilot site.

Context

The APAC leadership wants to deploy the industrial excellence practice proactively, by engaging KEPLER to design a maturity assessment tool and deploy the onsite visit to understand the current state of each site; then proceed to the improvement actions as recommended
1 pilot site to deploy improvement actions, monitor the progress and summarize the output

Objective(s)

Category: Mobilizing Teams

Transferring and adapting corporate practice into a local context
Planning an APAC assessment tour under the impact of covid-19
Understanding the corporate guidance of the industrial excellence practice & designing an assessment tool by considering local context
Soliciting local site leaders‘ participation on maturity assessment and planning the tour under COVID-19

The objective of this project is not only to support our client to implement this Corporate-level industrial excellence project, but also to share and transfer our know-how to plants’ frontline management, to help them identify the improvement area with proper methodologies & toolkits. This project is also a proven-record to show our capability to mobilize qualified resources & partners in APAC zone, wherever we may not have local footprint, especially under COVID-19 contraints.
Mingmin Zhou, General Manager - KEPLER China

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Operations Referents

Edouard Alquié

Director

Edouard graduated from Kedge Business School before joining Orange & Autoliv Supply Chain teams. He has more than ten years of experience in consulting. He specializes in industrial…

Edouard Alquié

Edouard Alquié

Director

Edouard graduated from Kedge Business School before joining Orange & Autoliv Supply Chain teams. He has more than ten years of experience in consulting. He specializes in industrial diagnosis and transformation planning for the Manufacturing and Retail sectors.
Mingmin Zhou

General Manager - KEPLER China

Graduated from Ecole des Mines D’Albi-Carmaux (Master in Pharmaceutical Engineering), Mingmin started his first steps of professional career in pharmaceutical and medical device…

Mingmin Zhou

Mingmin Zhou

General Manager - KEPLER China

Graduated from Ecole des Mines D’Albi-Carmaux (Master in Pharmaceutical Engineering), Mingmin started his first steps of professional career in pharmaceutical and medical device industries, with experience from Pierre Fabre, BioMerieux and Famar Lyon. He joined KEPLER China in 2011 to pursue more challenge and insights from other industries, such as FMCG, Retail, Heavy industry and Automotive industry. He is specialised in Continuous improvement (Lean 6 Sigma black belt), process management, value chain mapping & analysis, risk management and contingency plan, and Project Management Office (a certified PMP). Mingmin became our China office general manager in July 2021 and now he is leading our local office to better serve our clients with a Chinese and European culture integrated perspective and a result-oriented & excellence-focus attitude.