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How BIC accelerates operational excellence through continuous improvement - with AEVO Innovate

With 11 factories around the world, BIC unified its idea program with AEVO Innovate to scale frontline participation and drive measurable business impact.

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The Challenge

Before AEVO Innovate: local initiatives without structure or scale

BIC had strong participation in local improvement efforts, but struggled to manage them consistently across plants.

Ideas often stalled due to lack of visibility, evaluation workflows, and connection to operational performance indicators.

Overview

Industry: Consumer Goods Manufacturing

Program: BICUp!

Employees engaged: 8,000+

Factories connected: 11

Results: 50,000+ ideas generated | 30,000+ implemented

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The Solution

BICUp! – a global program for continuous improvement

With AEVO Innovate, BIC implemented BICUp! across all its factories – combining bottom-up participation with structured execution and global visibility.

AEVO Innovate enabled

A centralized platform to collect and evaluate ideas

Trained program leaders to boost participation and guide progress

Simple suggestions implemented directly by the proposer

Complex ideas reviewed by a committee and scaled globally when validated

AI-powered detection of similar, high-impact ideas across factories

Real-time dashboards to track participation, status, and ROI

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The Results

From scattered initiatives to industrial excellence at scale

50,000+ ideas submitted by employees

30,000 ideas successfully implemented

8,000+ employees using AEVO across 11 factories

Up to 90% participation rates

What they say

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