The market globalization and the new consumption modes have an important impact on product mix variability and volume volatility. This complex demand scheme is increasingly challenging for production leaders who generally suffer from insufficient integration with other departments and have recurrent difficulties to face rapid changes in demand. This situation becomes even more critical when they lack visibility over manufacturing capacities and lead times of their vendors. There is also a general trend for productive systems to evolve from products to services which requires even more reactivity and a market oriented mindset. Social and sustainable aspects put additional pressure on production leaders who are too often not involved from the beginning in the definition of the value chain.

How BearingPoint brings value

Our consulting teams comprise of specialists coming from the industry who are able to address all the manufacturing dimensions.

• Our competencies range from industrial strategy, engineering, product data management, procurement, sourcing, manufacturing, vendor management and logistics. This allows us to help our clients to better integrate their manufacturing processes and create seamless value chains from including external vendors.
• We address high-end issues through the definition of mid-term and long-term strategies based upon our knowledge of the industry best practices and markets behaviors.
• We improve productivity and flexibility of the production lines using Lean manufacturing and Lean engineering techniques.
• We also help our client set-up ad hoc organizations with cross functional teams in order to break the internal barriers and gain control of the end to end value chain. Our ability to setup transverse management is instrumental to shift from a product driven market to a service oriented one.