Alleima works continuously to improve its operational and commercial efficiency. Focus areas include cost-efficiency, mix optimization and measures to strengthen its commercial capabilities.
Measures to improve competitiveness
Alleima continuously reviews measures to adjust its capacity and costs to the prevailing market conditions. This often involves adjusting staffing levels to current volumes as well as optimizing, and in some cases consolidating, parts of its operations to increase efficiency. An example of this during the year was the introduction of a number of targeted measures to further strengthen the company’s operational efficiency and long-term competitiveness. Most of these measures were intended to reduce Alleima’s cost levels over the long term, including through restructuring, while others were a natural part of the company’s continuing efforts to adapt its capacity based on volume.
Optimized inventory management and digitalization
An efficient supply chain is essential to meeting customer needs and maintaining high delivery accuracy. Efforts to optimize sales and capacity planning continued during the year, with a focus on balanced inventory levels based on forecasts, actual order intake and volume planning. The continued implementation of new systems resulted in improved oversight and traceability throughout the value chain. These systems enable more efficient production planning, product mix optimization and improved cost monitoring and analysis.
Price leadership and commercial strength
Alleima has achieved price leadership in several niches. To further strengthen its
commercial capabilities, the company introduced more systematic follow-up of
its commercial performance during the year, with a particular focus on valuebased sales and technical marketing. Exercising a high level of discipline when booking orders is a key prerequisite for maintaining price leadership and ensuring profitability in a more challenging market environment.
Stronger performance culture
To fully realize the potential of its endmarkets, Alleima is working to strengthen its internal performance culture. This includes an improved financial governance model to enable greater transparency and better decision-making, further decentralization of responsibilities to increase its speed and customer focus, and the introduction of shared business principles that strengthen engagement and clarify what
is required to succeed.