Surface Transportation

Highlights of global reach and value to clients

Highlights of global reach and value to clients:
• Large North American railroad: Organized and led an intensive multi-functional process improvement/cost-reduction initiative. Involved multiple Oliver Wyman/client teams, each focusing on a discrete functional area. Within 4 months, identified significant improvement opportunities and commenced implementation. Result: More than $100M per year in savings realized
• Confidential investment client: Conducted a valuation of two recently merged South American railroad systems to support our client's bid to purchase the combined rail system
• European freight railway: Developed a network redesign and marketing/pricing strategy for the intermodal business and restructured the infrastructure services division
• European passenger railway: Reviewed and restructured the entire international distribution network and systems in order to dramatically reduce sales and distribution costs for international markets, and push Internet sales to capture new markets
• North American motor carrier: Advised on corporate financial targets, assessed the competitive positioning of the firm’s portfolio of subsidiaries, and developed a comprehensive business plan
• Largest North American bus transit company: Developed a roadmap for the future, including a new business design in the core activities, development of new business initiatives to grow the revenue base leveraging existing assets outside the core. Undertook a series of performance improvement initiatives to dramatically improve the client's structural costs, i.e.: local operating model re-design, purchasing effectiveness, and organizational re-design