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Customized Outsourcing Solutions

Outsourcing as a Strategy for Success

Outsourcing maintenance offers major advantages in the chemical industry: Cost reduction, focus on the core business and minimization of risks, optimization of plant availability and efficiency. As a leading outsourcing partner, Bilfinger offers customized maintenance solutions for the chemical industry.

Concentrate on your core business. We take care of the maintenance.

Outsourcing as a Management Tool

In the Context of Restructuring/ Realignment

Trigger

Cost pressure / flexibilization
Productivity improvement
Supplier bundling
Restructuring of production
Know-how deficit
Lack of implementation of Industry 4.0
Deficits in change management
Introduction of TPM/ OEE/ Reliability Engineering

Scope

Outsourcing of maintenance
Transfer of personnel (BGB 613a)
Spare parts warehouse (incl. purchase option)
Subcontractor management
Innovative billing models
Partnership agreements with transparent exit options

Benefit

Cost reduction with fixed price guarantee
Improvement of plant availability
OEE
Cash flow optimization (spare parts sales)
Risk reduction (occupational safety, personnel resources, operator responsibility)
Profitable in the 1st year

Success Factors

Partnership models (risk sharing)
Alignment with the client's objectives
Organizational development (process and structure)
Contractually enforceable key figures
Application of standardized tools & processes with the Bilfinger Maintenance Solution (BMS)
Incentivization of partners

Publications

CHEManager 10-2025: “Outsourcing als Erfolgsstrategie” ("Outsourcing as a Success Strategy", german version only)

Dennis Lubsch on economic advantages, access to expertise and innovation, legal aspects, psychological effects, successful references