Identifying Areas for Operational Improvement for the Largest Offshore Energy Supply Base in Denmark

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Customer

Norsea

Industry

Logistics

Enhancing Efficiency in the Energy Sector

NorSea, a leader in the energy sector, is renowned for its innovative and sustainable logistics and supply chain solutions, with a strong commitment to safety and long-term partnerships.

As a part of their ongoing pursuit to excel, NorSea sought Trifork’s expertise to enhance their logistics operations through innovative solutions. The aim: to improve logistics processes to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and support their overall operational goals.

The Hidden Costs of Neglecting Small Innovations in Logistics

NorSea sought to enhance their logistics operations by reducing manual errors and improving overall efficiency through technological solutions. In a fast-paced business environment, the overlooking of small innovations can lead to a cascade of negative consequences. This includes missed opportunities for efficiency gains, leading to operational inefficiencies and increased costs over time. Additionally, such an approach can result in a lack of agility and adaptability, employee frustration and disengagement, and a stifled culture of innovation. These factors collectively contribute to delayed problem resolution, ineffective resource utilization, over-dependence on major projects, all obstacles to meet evolving customer needs.

Achieving Operational Excellence with the Ride-Along Process As the Starting Point

The Trifork Ride Along process is a collaborative approach where Trifork experts work closely with teams to identify, design, and implement tailored technological solutions through hands-on guidance and real-time problem solving. By employing the Ride-Along approach, Trifork fast-tracked into an in-depth understanding of NorSea’s operational hurdles, which allowed Trifork to present tailored technological solutions that brings significant improvements to NorSea’s logistics processes.

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“Operating while strategically planning initiatives across our plant is a challenging task. Working with Trifork helped us identify, prioritize, and plan areas of improvement for the future.”

Kim List

Director Portservice Norsea

Leveraging Technology for Sustainable Innovation

Trifork contributed to driving innovation and enhancing efficiency in key business operations by leveraging:

  • Integrations
  • In-depth SAP know-how
  • Customer-centric solutions
  • Computer vision
  • IoT to develop solutions such as optimized workflows, container tracking systems, and predictive maintenance tools.

Uncovering NorSea’s Pain Points Through Expert Observation and Innovation

The The Ride-Along involved a one-day thorough observation and interviewing process to understand NorSea’s specific pain points, followed by ideation and implementation of targeted solutions to address the identified challenges. Trifork’s extensive network of business units allows us to draw on a diverse pool of expert knowledge across all needed technological aspects – from SAP, IoT and Design Thinking.

This unique capability enables us to provide highly specialized insights and develop solutions tailored to NorSea’s operational needs, ensuring a more effective and customized approach.

Trifork Ride Along

Realizing Operational Gains

The solutions provided by Trifork successfully addressed NorSea’s operational, and sometimes hidden, potential, leading to notable improvements in logistics management. As part of the Ride-Along concept, the customer receives a report with graphical overview of the findings and observations. In the concluding workshop, these various observations are placed on a “value versus effort” matrix, providing an overview of low-hanging fruits that the company can start implementing immediately.

In the NorSea case, findings included some of the below-listed potentials:

  • Enhanced efficiency and reduced operational bottlenecks potentially increase NorSea’s throughput and revenue.
  • Automation of manual processes and predictive maintenance contribute to cost savings.
  • By adopting innovative solutions, NorSea reinforced its brand as a leader in sustainable and efficient logistics.

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