Procurement Consultancy Project of the year
- Drive operational, commercial, and clinical excellence of a £600m top 4 UK private hospital group
- Undertook a radical procurement transformation
- Double-digit savings translated into a 34% EBIT improvement and £324m in shareholder value creation
Developing multiple pathways in insurance
- A major UK private health insurer was under pressure to tackle rising medical costs due to rising claims and margin erosion
- Identified and realise cost efficiencies through contract re-negotiations with key providers
- Benefits of £16M cost savings were delivered in Year 1, on course towards cumulative savings of £36M in key pathways over three years
MCA award winner - Maximising the profit from a traditional R&D research facility
- At an international defence group with an overly complex cost base and lacking commercial focus
- Restructure the business, sharpened commercial focus to nearly double return on sales, exceeding the growth target with a right-sized and right-focused cost base
Delivering a step change in performance
- Significantly over-running capital project was creating material risk to the UK business of an international design and construction services business
- Introduced lean operating practices creating a step change in efficient execution
- More than halved the ‘production’ cycle time, drastically reducing project costs
Lean value chain analysis & design
- For a high-precision engineering products business unit within a global aerospace organisation
- Assessed processes and developed a ‘pull’ approach through the supply chain
- Reduced working capital by £5m, improved product yield and throughput velocity, and created a lean supply chain model
Increased operating profit
- Of a major European integrated site for a tier-1 automotive supplier with cost and performance issues
- Full business analysis of operations focused on reducing unit cost of production
- Profit turnaround of c. €50m per annum making the site one of the best performers in the Group with sustained working capital reduction of 25% post-absorption of demand uplift
Our clients typically achieve
5:1
return on fees invested
20%+
typical cost reduction
3x
typical increase in performance