We innovate and transform our clients’ operations towards leading performance excellence across the total range of industry and service sectors. We help you to excel in operational practices, from lean and agile to digitally enabled operations, and ensure measureable and lasting operational and financial performance – from quality and speed to cost and capital efficiency.
At Arthur D. Little, we innovate and transform our clients’ operations towards leading performance excellence across the total range of industry and service sectors. We help you to excel in operational practices, from lean and agile to digitally enabled operations, and ensure measureable and lasting operational and financial performance – from quality and speed to cost and capital efficiency.
Operations management services:
Operational integration of digital technologies to drive radical performance improvement
Arthur D. Little helps clients to successfully plan, implement and maintain Industry 4.0 applications to reshape operations towards full digitalization. We navigate you through the technological and methodological complexity and help to boost operational performance.
Industry 4.0 and digitalization are drivers for change and new opportunities at the same time. Key challenges ahead of several industries are both the borderless integration of value chains and the integrated use of existing and emerging new technologies.
Understanding the implication of Industry 4.0 on all layers of operational processes is the key to anticipating potential disruptions, as well as opportunities to exploit them successfully.
We help our clients with technology-driven solution approaches, over 500 use cases for value-generating applications, and standardized cost models based on benchmarks and our industry expertise.
We assess technologies, their most efficient way of application and their cost to your operations, and then plan the implementation and assist you in transforming your operations successfully.
Boost your company performance with a holistic view across the full value chain
We help clients to improve their total company performance by transforming their organizations towards bottom-line optimization and best-practice orientation throughout the entire value chain.
We thereby apply leading operational and organizational practices, with full understanding of cross-value-chain dependencies and complexity drivers.
We offer clients customized solutions, such as:
Making your supply chain lean and agile to respond effectively and efficiently to an increasingly volatile and complex business environment
We help clients to ensure every part of the supply chain is seamlessly joined and quickly adaptive.
We help you to restructure the supply chain network, optimize the asset base and apply innovative solutions in line with your business strategy, to achieve high supply chain responsiveness and optimal operating costs across the entire value chain and over all functional areas.
We offer clients customized solutions such as:
Transforming procurement into an agile, linked innovation leader and catalyst
We help clients to achieve procurement value excellence. We enable your procurement organization to generate value, drive supplier-enabled innovation and manage increasingly complex supplier networks.
We offer clients customized solutions, such as:
Transformation to an agile, connected production system to meet the challenges of tomorrow
We help clients to deliver breakthrough improvements of productivity, delivery performance and time to market in production, logistics and production and logistics networks.
We offer clients customized solutions, such as:
Fulfilling the strategic goals of asset-intensive organizations
We help clients to develop tailored infrastructure asset management solutions according to the TOTEX principles, to achieve sustainable gains in free cash flow while achieving improved service quality.
We offer clients customized solutions, such as:
How to turn your support organizations – from corporate to delivery centers – from a cost factor into true value for your business
We help clients to obtain the right balance between centralized vs. decentralized services and synergies vs. flexibility.We help support organizations in becoming value centers, orchestrating value creation at optimal overhead cost.
We offer clients customized solutions, such as: