Aleris Aluminum Koblenz GmbH
Aleris Aluminium Koblenz GmbH in Koblenz, formerly Corus Aluminium Walzwerke GmbH, is one of the leading manufacturing companies of qualitative high value rolled products with a sister factory in Duffel, Belgium, which is part of the business division Aleris Aluminium Rolled Products – Europe. In 1964, the company began production in Koblenz and today is part of the international operating Aleris International Inc. with its head office in Beachwood, Ohio. Their products are tuned for individual solutions of very different customer requirements.
Business Challenges
- Optimization of business processes, because as-is processes are complex and time-consuming
- Need to optimize processes before SAP system implementing scheduled for 2009
- Redesign and improvement of Order-to-Cash process in terms of processing time, quality and costs
Solution
Customer survey as a basis for objectives of the to-be processes
Analysis of as-is processes and their costs with ARIS Toolset
Design of to-be processes and cost estimation with ARIS Toolset
Definition of 50 activities for attainment of to-be processes
Customer Benefit
Cost reduction of over 30 %Order confirmation twice as fast as before project start
Significant improvement of cross-department collaboration
Very short amortization period of the project costs, which represent only 36 % of the annual savings yielded by the project