- Consulting
- Supply chain planning & optimization
- Warehousing and production
Future-proof your production and intralogistics network through strategic planning, seamless digital integration and advanced automation
Benefit from expert guidance throughout your factory journey – from initial strategic decisions to successful go-live
Increase your competitiveness with the right level of automation
- Optimize and connect your end-to-end production network
How can you ensure that your production and logistics systems remain efficient even as you face rising costs, increasing uncertainty and evolving requirements? And what steps can you take to improve resilience throughout your entire production network?
4flow helps you answer these key questions. We support you to optimally plan and implement new warehouses and factories, transform your production environment into a smart factory, boost efficiency in intralogistics and optimize your entire production network.
How we optimize your production and intralogistics networks
Factory design and implementation
Whether greenfield or brownfield, every factory planning project starts with strategic questions about your target system:
- What is your production strategy?
- Which articles or parts need to be considered?
- What degree of automation do you aim to implement?
- What does your future growth look like?
- Does your plan include multiple construction stages?
Your answers to these questions create the framework for all further planning. Our experts support you to develop and implement each part of your factory planning – including your new processes, layout, material and information flows, organizational structures and IT systems.
Smart factory
Technologies such as IoT, automation and AI are often used as stand-alone solutions in production environments. The key to unlocking their full potential is the seamless integration of processes, data streams and systems.
4flow supports you every step of the way toward your smart factory. We start with a comprehensive analysis of your starting point, and we help you develop an optimal target vision and a concrete implementation strategy. We connect physical, digital and organizational structures to create a seamless smart factory ready for agile, efficient and future-proof production.
A smart warehouse with connected processes
Process and material flow optimization
With an integrated approach, 4flow helps you quickly and significantly improve efficiency in your intralogistics network. We provide you with transparency over process costs and the degree of your system maturity. Based on data-driven analyses and shop floor inspections, we develop concrete measures to boost efficiency, and we support you to implement them. Our goal: measurable results for your business from day one.
Production footprint optimization
Increasing protectionism, high energy costs, and limited access to rare raw materials are just some of the reasons behind recent shifts in value creation networks. The right production footprint should reflect these changes and account for future uncertainties.
4flow supports you to develop an optimized and customized production network, considering both location and network planning. Reduce your costs and increase the resilience of your network with our proven approach.
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Contact usThe benefits of optimizing your production network with 4flow
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Tailored location strategy
Future-proof your production network with a customized approach that balances cost efficiency, scalability and resilience.
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Sustainable cost savings
Accelerate throughput times and unlock substantial cost reductions in your factories and warehouses.
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Enhanced operational productivity
Implement targeted measures to boost productivity across your operations.
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Smart factory transformation
Rely on expert guidance from strategy development to full-scale implementation as you transition toward a smart factory.
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Proven warehouse best practices
Access industry-specific best practices and draw on a database of over 10,000 benchmarks to optimize your processes, organization and IT.
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Decades of intralogistics excellence
Leverage our extensive track record in intralogistics and production to drive sustainable success for your business.
What our customers say
Proven success with top businesses
- Mars
- HelloFresh
How Mars significantly reduces supply chain costs with continuous optimization
Success story in consumer goods
With the continuous growth and global expansion of its business, Mars’ network had grown increasingly complex, resulting in increased distribution costs. To significantly and sustainably reduce costs in the POSM network, Mars partnered with 4flow to implement a continuous optimization approach.
The solution:
- Continuous optimization for significant cost reduction
The results:
- Transparency across the entire network – from production and material procurement to delivery at the point of sale
- Over 20% cost reduction
- Reduction of carbon emissions and improved performance
4flow task force collaborates with HelloFresh to rapidly increase production output
Success story in consumer goods
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, business was going well for HelloFresh, the world’s leading supplier of meal kits. As the pandemic spread, its growth accelerated. As positive as this looked on paper, it also presented a tremendous challenge for the company’s production and supply chain processes – thus leading HelloFresh to seek support early on. Together with 4flow, HelloFresh quickly restructured processes. In just four weeks, the business increased throughput by 25% and efficiency by 10%.
The solution:
- Process restructuring and conversion to a 3-shift system without interrupting operations at the company’s distribution center in Verden, Germany
The results:
- 25% increase in production output in just 4 weeks
- 10% increase in efficiency
- Stabilization of all production lines after converting to a 3-shift operation
How Mars significantly reduces supply chain costs with continuous optimization
Success story in consumer goods
With the continuous growth and global expansion of its business, Mars’ network had grown increasingly complex, resulting in increased distribution costs. To significantly and sustainably reduce costs in the POSM network, Mars partnered with 4flow to implement a continuous optimization approach.
The solution:
- Continuous optimization for significant cost reduction
The results:
- Transparency across the entire network – from production and material procurement to delivery at the point of sale
- Over 20% cost reduction
- Reduction of carbon emissions and improved performance
4flow task force collaborates with HelloFresh to rapidly increase production output
Success story in consumer goods
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, business was going well for HelloFresh, the world’s leading supplier of meal kits. As the pandemic spread, its growth accelerated. As positive as this looked on paper, it also presented a tremendous challenge for the company’s production and supply chain processes – thus leading HelloFresh to seek support early on. Together with 4flow, HelloFresh quickly restructured processes. In just four weeks, the business increased throughput by 25% and efficiency by 10%.
The solution:
- Process restructuring and conversion to a 3-shift system without interrupting operations at the company’s distribution center in Verden, Germany
The results:
- 25% increase in production output in just 4 weeks
- 10% increase in efficiency
- Stabilization of all production lines after converting to a 3-shift operation