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We develop foresighted and holistic production strategies, taking all relevant factors into account.

We shape your production of tomorrow – holistically, digitally, and strategically

A successful production strategy is consistent with the company’s other functional strategies and benefits the overall corporate strategy.

It provides a strategic framework for management to orchestrate the global production network. In today’s dynamic business environment, it is crucial to understand the production strategy as continuous development reacting flexibly to changing conditions.

As production and digitization experts as well as interface, requirements and innovation managers, we are your ideal partner when it comes to taking a holistic view of production. Together with you, we anticipate potential as well as challenges and transfer them into strategic initiatives.

Key questions

How do I design my innovation management so that my production remains competitive in the long term

How strong is the vertical integration in my added value and how do I design the relationship with my suppliers?

How do I optimize the occupancy of my plants and where do I produce my future products?

How do I resolve the tension between responsiveness and efficiency in my production?

How do I design a sustainable and cost-effective production system?

How can production bottlenecks and failures be anticipated and prevented?

Which degree of automation and digitization is appropriate for my production?

Reference projects

Client

Tier-1 Supplier (Germany)

Target
  • Reconfiguration of the worldwide production network
  • Development of potentials through integrated consideration of previously separate product groups
Approach
  • Initial goal definition and coordination of strategic premises
  • Tool-based modeling of the actual footprint for calibration and derivation of fields of action
  • Workshop-based development of scenarios for the target footprint
  • Tool-based modeling and evaluation of scenarios (qualitative + total landed costs)
  • Sensitivity analysis to evaluate the robustness of the scenarios
  • Forecast of transformation costs from status quo to target scenario
  • Derivation of a decision template
Achievement
  • Identification of a target footprint with a potential cost reduction of 25%
  • Sustainable strengthening of the global production network through the integration of the product groups
Client
Premium-OEM (Germany)
Target
  • Design of a vision and a target system for the future body manufacturing
  • Definition of a groundbreaking KPI-set as indicator for the performance of technology development projects in future
Approach
  • Modeling of the body manufacturing system in a indicator system
  • Workshop-based prioritization and harmonization of the indicator system
  • Generation of a reference model: benchmark studies of competitors and system suppliers
  • Workshop-based quantification of the indicator system (analogous to the SMART logic)
  • Tool- and workshop-supported re-evaluation of the prioritization of the quantified indicator system
  • Conception of an evaluation logic to review the contribution of technology development projects in future for the target system
Achievement
  • Digital integrated and fully described assembly process for the entire vehicle, including all relevant data and complete line synchronization
Client

Automotive Startup (Germany)

Target
  • Recommendation on whether to set up an in-house battery pack production facility or source the components from a supplier
Approach
  • Rough specification of the make scenario and creation of a reference supplier profile
  • Multilevel utility value analysis
    • Strategic analysis: attractiveness and criticality of the business field
    • Risk analysis: Assessment of various risk dimensions, including technical risks, market risks, supply chain risks
    • Economic analysis: economic comparison of action alternatives
  • Aggregation of the individual analyses
  • Workshop-based weighting of the decision factors
  • Derivation of a decision recommendation
Achievement
  • Systematic derivation of an economically motivated buy strategy
  • Pre-selection of potentially suitable suppliers for the battery packs
Jan-Philip Ganser
Senior Vice President
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Daniel Ott
Principal
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Alexander Pies
Practice Lead Production Strategy
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