Manufacturing Strategy: Building Agility in a VUCA World

In today’s VUCA landscape—marked by Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity—agility is critical. Rising tariffs, inflation, and rapid technological and environmental shifts make stable supply lines a top priority for leaders worldwide. Our approach balances internal and external perspectives to optimize your manufacturing footprint and provide Make vs. Buy insights, minimizing risk and reducing COGS. For select countries, we offer a seamless turnkey solution, ensuring a resilient and efficient supply chain.

Teardown & Benchmarking: Precision Insights, Transformative Innovation

In industries with limited guidelines, balancing design optimization with performance is a challenge. Our Teardown & Benchmarking services bridge this gap, supporting Value Engineering, New Product Introduction, and Design-to-Value initiatives. By analyzing the full "concept-to-component" cycle, we provide data-driven insights that streamline the value chain, accelerating innovation and maximizing value.

Order-to-Cash Analysis: Streamlining for Growth

Our Order-to-Cash Analysis thoroughly evaluates each step, from customer orders to product delivery and accounts receivable. With industry best practices, we chart a path to an optimized future state, boosting margins, cash flow, and valuation. The outcome? A streamlined process that drives sustainable growth.

COGS Optimization: Maximizing Value in Every Dollar

Our COGS Optimization service provides a clear, actionable roadmap to cost reduction, blending Lean principles and data-driven strategies for Deflation and Productivity. From material selection and best-cost sourcing to design improvements, process simplification, logistics, and supplier relationships, we uncover every efficiency opportunity. Tailored for Engineered Product companies, this service integrates Engineering Design, supplier selection, manufacturing processes, footprint strategies, Make vs. Buy decisions, and manufacturing postponement. For companies lacking a structured COGS approach, this analysis serves as a foundational blueprint, empowering smarter decisions and sustainable profitability across the value chain.

Commodity Strategy Development: Combining Expertise and Market Intelligence for Game-Changing Results

Many sourcing teams excel in certain categories but lack expertise in others, leaving significant savings on the table. That’s where we come in. With deep supplier landscape knowledge and strong industry relationships, we craft strategies and refine processes to drive savings in even the most challenging categories.

Our unique approach leverages a sourcing consortium, bringing together clients from different industries with similar parts or processes. This “community of scale” allows even smaller spend categories to benefit from the purchasing power of a larger, combined spend—delivering big savings and enhanced value.

Cash Conversion Cycle Optimization: Fueling Growth with Strategic Cash Flow

The Cash Conversion Cycle (CCC) is vital to growth, yet many companies rely on extending supplier payment terms, often resulting in supply risks and excess inventory. Our CCC Optimization program takes a comprehensive approach, using multiple levers to enhance cash flow and mitigate risks. By implementing tailored scorecards and Supply Chain Finance systems, we unlock working capital and boost cash metrics, fortifying your supply chain for confident growth.

Strategic Sourcing Funnel: Harnessing Data-Driven Insights to Maximize Value

Building a robust Strategic Sourcing Funnel requires a comprehensive, data-driven opportunity assessment. Too often, assessments are undermined by sandbagging—whether from a lack of proven methodologies or the desire to stretch savings over time. The real goal? Getting as close as possible to the ideal Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

We leverage advanced tools like cost modeling, process and composite benchmarking, spend data mining, and market arbitrage to develop a high-impact savings funnel. For clients seeking proof of concept, we also provide execution support, ensuring measurable results and sustainable value.

Demand & Supply Management Team: Precision Planning for Seamless Execution

Effective demand and supply management requires mastery of critical actions—planning pull-ins and push-outs, maintaining item master details, BOM management, SIOP action items, safety stock optimization, and more. These tasks are essential to ensuring on-time delivery and achieving financial goals.

Our expert teams excel at managing these dynamic processes, leveraging data-driven insights to navigate uncertainty with precision and professionalism. The result? A streamlined, resilient supply chain that supports your success, every step of the way.

Strategic Sourcing Team: Agile Expertise, Maximum Impact

Sourcing teams deliver an average ROI of 9X, returns often diminish after four years—unless fueled by a strong pipeline of new product introductions. Building an in-house team of commodity experts across all major categories can take longer than the lifecycle of these returns.

That’s where we step in. Our on-demand Commodity Leaders and Category Analysts bring instant expertise and hit the ground running. Equipped with proven tools and processes, we quickly scale to meet your challenges, operating as an extended arm of your procurement team. The result? Sustained impact and seamless support, precisely when you need it.

Supply Chain Health Team: Driving Performance with Precision Monitoring

Managing supply chain KPIs like MRP stability, PPV, inventory levels, variable cost productivity, and supplier scorecards is critical for success—but it’s also time-intensive. Regular tracking and timely course corrections are essential to maintaining a competitive edge.

Our specialists monitor these metrics and deliver actionable insights, enabling client organizations to adjust strategies and tactics proactively. Beyond reporting, we conduct in-depth analyses to uncover root causes behind performance trends, ensuring your supply chain stays agile, efficient, and optimized for success

NPI Development Team: Bridging Design and Sourcing for Innovation Success

New Product Introduction (NPI) thrives on seamless collaboration between design and sourcing engineers for material selection, manufacturing processes, prototyping, cost modeling, Make vs. Buy decisions, and testing. Without deep analysis and timely feedback, product innovation risks falling short of its potential.

Our experts provide cost models, manufacturing process simulations, and actionable insights to guide your design teams. We also develop test plans, design test fixtures and gauges to ensure quality is built into every product. Partner with us to turn your product innovation into a market success.

Supply Chain Analytics Team: Unlock the Power of Your ERP Data

ERP systems hold immense potential, but extracting meaningful insights often requires significant data cleaning, organization, and analysis due to maintenance gaps. Without a clear structure, the data’s strategic value remains untapped.

Our expert Data Analysis Team transforms raw ERP data into actionable intelligence. From supply chain diagnostics and control tower processes to planning, collaboration, and inventory management, we deliver optimized solutions driven by a data-first approach. The result? Streamlined operations, enhanced decision-making, and world-class performance.

3C Management Team: Driving Strategic Cash Flow Optimization

The Cash Conversion Cycle (CCC) is a critical metric for business success, and optimizing it across multiple levers is essential. While many BPO organizations focus solely on transactional AP/AR processing, they often miss the strategic approach needed to achieve optimal working capital levels.

Our teams go beyond tactical tasks to strategically optimize working capital. We address not just DPO and DSO, but also key factors impacting DIO. Additionally, we serve as intermediaries for Supply Chain Finance—Trade Payables, offering innovative solutions to enhance CCC metrics, provided conditions like bank covenants are met.

With our expertise, you gain actionable strategies to unlock cash flow, improve liquidity, and fuel growth with confidence.

Cost Modeling Team: Empowering Negotiations with Data-Driven Insights

Fact-based negotiation is the gold standard for success, and the foundation lies in robust cost modeling. Effective cost modeling demands expertise in raw material costs by region, manufacturing process economics, cycle times, labor dynamics, and other elements to create a comprehensive Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

Our cost modeling teams are transformative partners for clients. Unlike opaque "black box" programs or overwhelmed internal resources, we deliver clear, detailed rollups, dynamic "what-if" analyses, and a deep understanding of global economics and supplier landscapes. We provide actionable insights tailored to your needs, enabling informed, data-driven negotiations that secure the best outcomes.

E-Sourcing Team: Powering Procurement with Expertise and Transparency

E-Sourcing tools are essential for modern procurement, ensuring transparency in awards, harmonizing market insights, enabling scenario planning, and identifying key trade-offs. However, a successful E-RFx requires thorough preparation—deep supplier landscape knowledge, cost modeling, material cost arbitrage insights, and supplier audits.

We provide the expertise and execution skills to seamlessly integrate E-Sourcing into your procurement strategy, making it a powerful and regular part of your market testing process. The result? Smarter decisions, optimized outcomes, and a procurement process you can trust.