Operations

Today’s business world presents extraordinary opportunities to transform operations. The globalization and liberalization of markets for products, raw materials and labor drives companies to re-design their global value chains. And CEOs know that their operations strategy must match their overall business strategy if it is to achieve a distinct and long-lasting competitive advantage. As a result, organizations have started to reach new levels of productivity from their core assets, business processes and strategic relationships, gaining unprecedented performance from each link in the value chain.

But knowledge of these strategies alone won’t make a company successful. And that ties in to why we have long been known as the industry’s leading experts in operations.

We don’t just help clients develop operations strategy – we make sure it’s implemented. At every level of the organization.

We address the operational issues on the CEO’s agenda through consulting services in these critical areas which extend through the entire value chain:

• Global operations strategy (business model design, strategic make vs. buy decisions, core competence leveraging, strategic partnering)
• Network optimization (manufacturing footprint design, Lean Asset Structure, low cost country relocation)
• Supply chain performance improvement (logistics network structure, customer service excellence, net working capital management)
• Productivity improvement (operating asset effectiveness, lean transformation)
• Creating supply chain advantage and strategic sourcing solutions (leading procurement organization design, low cost country sourcing, category expertise, collaborative cost reduction, design to cost, closed loop spend management, e-sourcing tools)

Our work mixes innovative and proven methodologies, benchmarks and best practices based on our broad experience and ongoing studies. This, combined with our pragmatic approach and cooperative working style, achieves tangible results. We take pride in our 80 years of experience in operations consulting, working successfully across the full spectrum from operations strategy design to shop floor implementation.