Ton Mens

Ton is a business economist with over 30 years of experience in top financial positions within the accountancy, capital goods and FMCG industries, both listed and the larger family business. Thanks to his training and experience as a chartered accountant and chartered controller and his experience at various financial levels, he fully understands administrative processes.

Ton always looks for the story and the process behind the figures, which is helped by a great interest in technology. He has led various ERP implementations and knows how important it is to understand both the process and the role of the people within the process, before it is automated.

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Performance varied greatly, and that had to stop

One of the world’s largest steel producers was midway through a five-year programme to perform consistently at world-class level. At its largest plant, the hope was that Six Sigma would eliminate the remaining process variation. The team discovered that half of that variation came from well-intentioned interventions by the operators themselves. The pilot delivered far…

Growth swamped the innovation department

Growing demand for new product variants and engineering changes swamped the innovation department of a fast-growing electronics company. Design errors only came to light in production, crash actions pushed aside projects that were on schedule, and hiring more engineers made things worse. Within six months of starting work with Axisto, output was reliable again, and…

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It turned out that the Engineers had to perform a lot of repetitive, manual, clicking, copying, and pasting that suit RPA well. The implementation of RPA has saved 5.5 man-years — and the savings still continue to grow.

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