Automotive Operations and Supply Chain Excellence

GAOEXPERTS specializes in the practical implementation of integrated transformation processes in technology-driven manufacturing companies, with a clear focus on all operational functions, product and process development, and project and launch management.


GAOEXPERTS represents an international, highly experienced and results-oriented team of experts in the fields of the Toyota Production System, Digital Transformation, Technical Problem Solving, and Project Management.


As a results-driven “General Contractor,” GAOEXPERTS manages a project-specific global network of experts and interim managers in these disciplines and is continuously expanding it.


Transfom for greater resilience

A Global integrated

Transformation Office

Chief Operating/ Transformation Officer

"as a Service"

The GAOEXPERTS COO/CTO-as-a-Service approach combines deep Toyota Production System expertise, executive-level operational leadership, and hands-on implementation responsibility to close the critical gap between strategy and execution. By integrating operations, product and process development, supply chain, and industrialization into one holistic transformation system, GAOEXPERTS enables rapid and sustainable improvements in profitability, cash flow, quality, productivity, and resilience.

 

Typical activities:

  • Pre-Assessment of all affected locations 
  • Ensuring project alignment and the achievement of results
  • Coordination of all participating experts
  • Defining what to change, what to change to and how to cause the change
  • Executing a comprehensive roadmap and structured turn around
  • Assembling and coordinating the team of experts
  • Ensuring transparency regarding transformation progress
  • Intensive on-the-job coaching of key stake holders

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People and Team Development process

GAOEXPERTS develops your people and teams through structured problem solving by building the capability to identify root causes, think systematically, and improve processes sustainably instead of relying on firefighting. Based on the principles of the Toyota Production System, this approach strengthens leadership, ownership, cross-functional collaboration, and the organization’s long-term transformation capability.




Active Learning Workshops and Trainings:

  • Standard Work Workshops
  • Built-In-Quality Workshops
  • TPM Workshops
  • SMED Workshops
  • Lean Executive Training
  • Lean Expert Training
  • Lean Logistics Training
  • Lean Maintenance Training
  • Lean Shop Floor Management Training
  • Lean Industrial Engineering


All workshops and trainings have usually paybacks from less than 1 month!

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PMO, benchmarking and measure tracking

GAOEXPERTS establishes highly transparent PMO structures, performance tracking systems, and plant benchmarking processes to ensure rigorous execution, measurable accountability, and fact-based decision-making throughout the transformation journey. By creating full transparency across KPIs, operational performance, and implementation progress, organizations can systematically identify gaps, accelerate best-practice sharing, and drive sustainable operational excellence across their global network.


Typical activities:

  • Implementing of holistically aligned KPI systems
  • Drive continuous improvement of KPIs
  • Monitoring progress of cost-saving measures
  • Conducting monthly saving calls
  • Freqeuntly sharing of best practices
  • Frequently performing ongoing plant benchmarking to identify further savings potential


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Digital Transformation and AI solutions

GAOEXPERTS develops pragmatic digital transformation and AI solutions that are fully aligned with operational realities, enabling organizations to improve transparency, decision-making speed, process stability, and overall supply chain performance. Instead of implementing technology for its own sake, the approach combines deep operational and Toyota Production System expertise with digital capabilities to ensure measurable business impact and sustainable competitive advantage.



Typical applications:


TPS-based Digital Shop Floor Management

Output tracking and problem escalation

Plant performance cockpits

TPS-style Industrial Engineering suite

Digital Yamazumi chart

  • Production and supply chain levelling


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Technical Problem Solving

GAOEXPERTS production system assessments combine deep Toyota Production System expertise with an objective external perspective to uncover blind spots, hidden inefficiencies, and systemic weaknesses often overlooked internally, while benchmarking operational maturity against proven best practices. This unique combination creates transparency and urgency for change, enabling organizations to accelerate transformation and achieve sustainable performance improvements.


Typical topics covered in maturity assessments include:


Gemba Leadership

Zero defect strategy and execution

Value stream mapping and target condition design

Assembly line management

Equipment Management

Material management

Shop Floor Management

Supplier integration


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Cost Saving Workshops

GAOEXPERTS applies powerful, highly structured, and data-driven technical problem-solving methodologies directly on the shop floor to identify dominant root causes quickly and eliminate complex quality, process, and reliability issues sustainably. By focusing on factual evidence, statistical validation, and systematic narrowing of variables instead of guessing or assumptions, the approach dramatically accelerates problem resolution while improving product robustness and process stability.


Quote from one of our leading experts on this topic:

“Don’t call me about 8D or Ishikawa/fishbone diagrams. Call me when you have 400 years of combined tenure in the room and no one has a clue what the problem might be, but you finally have to solve it.”