Materials and Components
Producers of materials and components face several ambitious challenges:
- Strong dependency on the highly variable economic situation of the construction industry
- Strong competition and strong consolidation in the industry, partially driven by financial investors
- Continuously rising requirements on companies’ efficiency
In order to respond adequately to these challenges, producers of materials and components can address several key areas of action:
- Efficient cost management through fixed cost optimization, working capital management, and reduction of material costs
- Building a competitive product portfolio, taking emerging complexity costs into account. Besides pure product offerings, differentiating services and solutions offer particularly compelling opportunities of profitability improvement
- Optimized design of the value chain from the production and logistics network up to the management of sales channels
Oliver Wyman has conducted a large number of projects for producers of materials and components, and has supported them particularly in the fields of sales and efficiency improvement. Based on a clear market segmentation and an understanding of future customer requirements, Oliver Wyman helps to identify optimization potential and to develop concrete adjustments to existing business models. Efficiency improvement projects comprise purchasing, production, and inventory management, as well as sales and service.
