The automotive industry and its suppliers are passing through a phase of massive structural changes. The whole industry - and especially the suppliers - are facing new challenges because of the worldwide drop in car sales.
Recent studies have revealed about 25% overcapacity which lead to heavy price competition across markets. This imposes strong pressure especially on the supplying industries. Only the companies which are able to understand the current challenges as chances will be able to secure a good position in the market in the long term.
Our aim is to support automotive manufacturers and suppliers to find the right strategy for this phase. An efficient cash management is vital in light of sales holdup, pricing pressure and simultaneous high investments in research and development, as currently demanded from the market especially for the area of environmental sustainability.
We analyse your internal processes and - where necessary - implementing restructuring measures together with you. Further focuse areas are Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Manufacturing, Distribution – each with concrete approaches how to handle the challenges and with strategies to strengthen your market position.
- Forming cooperations within the supplying industry to develop collective purchasing power (procurement groups)
- Increase productivity within the assembly (Lean Production)
- Companywide business process redesign (Operational Excellence)
- Redesign and implementation of a companywide process for product development and product launch, from customer order to serial production
- Design and implementation of a multi-project management process for evaluating and selecting development projects
- Using potential for optimisation within the whole supply chain
- Developing a global distribution strategy
- Designing a strategy for entering new markets
- Developing the strategy for product launches
- Designing and implementing a production network strategy
- Restructuring quality control
- Redesigning processes dealing with complaints and with the correction of defects
- Optimisation of working capital (accounts receivable, stock, accounts payable)
- Cost reduction through restructuring measures
