Manufacturing Magazine - April 2021 | Page 70

PROCTER & GAMBLE

“ Looking at the last calendar year , we continued to deliver to the company close to a billion dollars of total delivered cost savings powered to a large

extent by IWS .”

MACIEJ STAWICKI GLOBAL MANUFACTURING VICE PRESIDENT ,
PROCTER & GAMBLE
parallel ensuring highest safety standards and effective COVID protocols . We were able to sustain our results while sometimes a significant number of our employees in our factories had to stay at home .”
MASTERY IN MANUFACTURING P & G is renowned for its ‘ multiple decades of mastery in manufacturing , supply chain excellence and operations ’ and with IWS P & G continues to be recognised . Industry accolades reflect this as the company has been awarded Supply Chain Master distinction from Gartner , Supplier of the Year from Walmart and close to 100 awards for individual plants across the world for example , the most recent “ Fourth Industrial Revolution Lighthouse
Factory Award by the World Economic Forum for P & G Lima , USA and P & G Amiens , France plants .
According to Stawicki , IWS has “ evolved beyond the manufacturing discipline ” and is now a fundamental element of an E2E supply chain blueprint for others to follow . It can be leveraged by other companies and shows a step-change in results within a timeframe of 16-20 weeks .
P & G partners with consultants from Ernst & Young to implement the systems in more than 400 non-P & G factories around the world .
“ I think that the partnership with EY is unique . Together we can offer help to other global companies to reach worldclass standards ,” he said .
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