Industrial Products
The Industrial Products Team supports manufacturing companies in their efforts to restructure and to realize profitable growth.
In their project work, Oliver Wyman combines in-depth industry expertise with specialized skills that have been developed during hundreds of projects. The acquired knowledge has largely been documented and structured by industry-specific studies and benchmarking databases that are available to our clients.
Our teams of experts realize fast-acting and sustainable impact and change for industrial enterprises all over the world.
Key Capabilities
Product Costs and Sourcing
Material and product-related costs are by far the biggest expense for manufacturing companies. Oliver Wyman uses a comprehensive, multifunctional approach developed across extensive client engagements to address the most important technical, commercial, and process-based issues faced by our manufacturing clients and their suppliers. This approach generates substantial cost advantages that can be realized and sustained over time.
Operational Excellence
For many manufacturing companies, operational excellence in production is a key differentiator against the competition in terms of costs, quality, flexibility, and time to market. With its unique, proven LEAP© approach, Oliver Wyman has designed a methodology that allows for profound and sustainable optimization within a short period of time.
Overhead Costs
Reducing distribution, R&D, and administration fixed costs must follow a process that is both ambitious and sustainable. Based on sector-specific comparisons and best practices, we not only focus on measurable cost-cutting but also on using the levers that best position a firm in its competitive environment to secure a long-term cost advantage. Adapting a client's organizational structure and optimizing its underlying processes are both parts of this approach.
Turnaround Management
In turnaround situations, the management is faced with extraordinary tasks that are intended to secure the survival of the company. Building on our long-term experience, Oliver Wyman offers support in strategic, operational, and financial restructuring in critical situations, particularly attaching importance to consistent project management and communication with the most relevant stakeholders.
Growth Strategy
Profitable growth and the continuous adjustment of the business model are a key challenge for manufacturing companies in strengthening their competitive position and in avoiding restructuring situations. Oliver Wyman has a unique approach to strategy development (Value Driven Business Design) that has been successfully applied in hundreds of companies throughout the world. Our approach helps manufacturing companies to identify growth opportunities and to develop customized business models.
Sales & After Sales
Many companies still have significant untapped potential for increasing their earnings, customer satisfaction, and customer retention in the area of sales & after sales. Oliver Wyman draws on manifold proven tools and procedures for optimizing Sales and After Sales.
Mergers & Acquisitions, Post Merger Integration
Oliver Wyman offers value improvement opportunities for strategic and financial investors by means of a unique combination of in-depth knowledge of the industry and long-term experience in the international transaction consulting business, as well as in the integration of merged enterprises.
Organizational Alignment
A successful organization constantly adapts itself to the conditions of its market and its competition. Oliver Wyman supports this change process by optimizing organizational structure, processes, target systems, and management tools.
Corporate Risk
Oliver Wyman’s Corporate Risk practice works closely with leading organizations to effectively manage risk, enabling them to make risk-adjusted strategy, investment and capital allocation decisions that improve performance and optimize value creation.
