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What We Do

We support manufacturing companies in their efforts to realize sustainable, profitable growth. We develop customized solutions to address our client’s unique situation — we don’t believe in one-size-fits-all. Consequently, our team includes both sector and functional experts.

Our expertise
Machinery And Components
Engineered products require innovation, complexity management, customer proximity, and international sales networks to succeed. We support machinery and components companies throughout the value chain, unlocking new value pools and managing risks.
Plant Engineering And Construction
Plant engineering and construction require project management and on-site value creation with many partners. Companies should focus on core competencies, localization, risk management, and digital tools to drive profit.
General Manufacturing​
Manufacturing is highly competitive, and operational excellence and manufacturing footprint decisions are crucial. We optimize supply chains and leverage advanced technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) to achieve growth and efficiency for our clients.
Solutions
We assist clients in redefining their purpose, vision, and mission. We identify areas where they have a “right to play” and contribute industry expertise and portfolio strategy. Our “Value Driven Business Design” methodology is used to analyze value shifts and develop winning, value-driven business models for continuous adaptation and development.
Our team leverages industry knowledge and merger and acquisition (M&A) experience to help clients execute transactions successfully and enhance value. We conduct operational and commercial due diligence for fact-based decisions and adopt a holistic approach to post-merger integration. This includes alignment, culture change, operations management, customer retention, supplier/vendor integration, rationalization, and detailed implementation support.
We provide a comprehensive management solution for turning around companies facing an imminent profit or liquidity crisis. Our services stabilize companies, secure their liquidity position, and pave the path to a profitable and sustainable future. We prioritize the development of sustainable restructuring concepts that consider market and competitive environments as well as each company’s unique situation.
We guide clients towards lasting transformation through a holistic approach tailored to their needs. This involves designing bold moves for performance leaps, co-creating industry-leading capabilities, shaping the change agenda, and facilitating change from the inside out. We build the operating model, develop capabilities, and nurture a culture to execute change and realize quantifiable value, whether clients seek positive disruption, trajectory shifting, or cost improvement.
We utilize our extensive experience, real-world examples, and industry benchmarks to develop effective organizational systems and steering mechanisms tailored to specific business needs. We assist clients in establishing transparent decision-making processes and implement accountability frameworks. By engaging clients through co-creation and design thinking we ensure sustainable organizational effectiveness.
We merge analytics and technical expertise with a deep understanding of business processes to create end-to-end solutions that realize substantial savings and facilitate profitable growth through digital business models. We maintain state-of-the-art digital tools to identify and realize efficiency potential across the value chain. We guide clients in harnessing the value from data and co-create customer-focused solutions that win.
We assist manufacturers in capturing customer value throughout the product lifecycle with targeted customer acquisition, smart pricing, and comprehensive after-sales offers. Our team combines practical industrial sales experience with a highly analytical approach supported by user-oriented digital tools for effective steering.
We support COOs, CTOs, and engineering VPs in adapting their organizations to ever-faster innovation cycles. These are further fueled by increasing software content and digitization which require faster time-to-market and enhanced agility. Our team can optimize development cycles, and disrupt engineering operating models to enhance competitiveness, and improve processes.
We optimize all product costs along the value chain through commercial, technical, and operational measures. Direct and indirect purchased materials represent the largest costs that need addressing to enhance operational and financial performance. Our procurement and cost reduction experts have a track record of realizing significant savings along the entire supply chain.
We support manufacturers throughout their end-to-end supply chain. Our aim is to increase visibility and address critical supply chain issues to optimize earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA), working capital, and customer service. We also find solutions to tough problems in production and prevent inefficiencies such as low maturity, insufficient throughput, poor on-time delivery, and quality issues through our deep experience and pragmatic tools.
We help clients in identifying and implementing the most suitable green market strategy. This could involve manufacturing parts for new green technology, participating in the hyper-growth of existing green technologies, or designing eco-friendly production systems. We also develop corporate sustainability roadmaps and initiate cultural shift towards sustainability across all business decisions. This includes identifying strategic opportunities and risks based on sustainability aspects.
 

What We Think

Our flagship report on the European industrial goods sector with a focus on value creation and migration and an in-depth view on the geopolitical situation

THE STATE OF THE INDUSTRIAL GOODS SECTOR 2023: EUROPE EDITION

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 VIDEO: THE STORY BEHIND NEXANS’ DECARBONIZATION JOURNEY

VIDEO: THE STORY BEHIND NEXANS’ DECARBONIZATION JOURNEY

Leading the way as a green champion can give industrial equipment firms the competitive advantage

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Exploring the implications of the new world order

VIDEO: HOW GEOPOLITICS SHAPES THE FATE OF INDUSTRIAL GOODS

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Oliver Wyman introduced the Recession Heatmap in 2018 to help industrial businesses assess the likelihood of a recession in their respective sectors

Recession Heatmap Industrial Goods

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The State of the Industrial Goods sector: North American Edition

The State of the Industrial Goods sector: North American Edition

The North American industrial goods sector sees a shift in value, benefiting from digitalization and automation and sustainability is a growing trend

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Oliver Wyman conducted a survey with participation of men and women from organizations across a range of sizes to analyze this manufactured gender imbalance

A Manufactured Gender Imbalance

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Many companies have committed to reaching net-zero carbon emissions, and now the challenge is to turn these commitments into sustainable plans and actions

Getting going

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If US industrials are to guarantee increased production, it will be necessary to adopt a triple deck approach to productivity optimization

An Integrated Plan To Overcome Industrial Labor Shortages

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Compliance vs Championship

Leading the way as a green champion can give industrial equipment firms the competitive advantage

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VIDEO: AUMA ACHIEVES AMBITIOUS GROWTH TARGETS

VIDEO: AUMA ACHIEVES AMBITIOUS GROWTH TARGETS

Behind the breakthrough

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