Industries
WP&C’s unique perspective and approach is applicable across a broad range of industries:
Consumer Products
Consumer products companies have to constantly adapt to rapidly changing demand. Product life cycles are short and lead times have contracted from months to weeks, or in some case days to hours. Products commoditize and markets can stagnate. Read more
Consumer products is also extremely sensitive to global and local economic shifts. WP&C has helped clients from consumer staples to consumer electronics face these challenges. Our clients value our unique expertise in Square Root costing (to quickly understand product profitability), managing and eliminating complexity, supply chain improvement, and customer segmentation.
Energy & Utilities
The surging importance of carbon emissions reduction in the past decade has led energy companies and utilities to make difficult decisions regarding technology and capital-intensive infrastructure, adding significant complexity to their businesses. Read more
And this is on top of managing operational risk and efficiency, wading through an increasingly complicated regulatory environment, and handling fluctuating supply and demand volumes and prices. We can help you mitigate complexity from growing supply portfolios, optimize operational efficiency, and build high-reliability into your organization. We serve energy companies & utilities in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Middle East.
Financial Services
The recent global financial crisis has reshaped the industry landscape: strict regulations, new business models to better manage risk, shifting consumer sentiments, and lower margin expectations. Read more
Financial services organizations have had to rapidly adapt to these changes while minimizing cost and complexity arising from new regulations and redefined products and segments. We have innovative tools to examine process, product, and organizational complexity to help winners emerge stronger. The result? Reduced costs, faster time to response, and sustainable profits.
Healthcare & Pharmaceutical
For pharmaceutical companies, today’s challenges include changing regulations, industry consolidation, patent expiration, long product innovation cycles, price-sensitive consumers and payers, and intense competition. Read more
Our expertise in portfolio optimization can be applied to product, service, and market segments to drive strategic focus, reducing costs and enabling R&D concentrations. We can help identify strategies for sustainable profitable growth, complexity and cost reduction in supply chain and manufacturing, and organizational restructuring to respond successfully to this new environment.
Industrial Products
With the volatile and cyclical nature of the business, Industrial products companies need to manage their costs well, especially with shifting demand and low-cost competition from developing markets. Read more
Companies need to focus on managing their product portfolios, manufacturing complexity and footprints. We have experience assisting clients to optimize their factories and production ecosystems, consolidate footprints, and institute lean manufacturing.
Government & Public Sector
Complexity is embedded in most government organizations. With unstable funding and the converging roles of public and private sectors, public entities need to be competitive and efficient in their operations. Read more
Organizations and processes need to be streamlined to respond to the changing environment. We help government entities tackle these issues systematically, removing logistical complexity and non-value-added costs. We understand the key success factors required to achieve organizational transformation for the world’s most complex organizations—governments.
Retail
In addition to the general trends and challenges in the retail sector—demanding consumers, narrowing margins, consolidation of suppliers, logistical complexity of sourcing, and intense competition - retail is one of the most recognizable sectors to be hit by the global economic crisis.Read more
To survive and thrive in such an environment, multiple strategies have to be executed. We work with retail clients in the U.S. and Europe on these critical strategic issues. For example, we helped a multi-national electronic retail client streamline its supply chain, improve its space productivity and simplify its operating model. Our approach is results-oriented and our retail clients value the impact we make by giving us recurring business.
Technology & Telecommunications
This sector is exciting, yet challenging, due to its dynamic nature. Both product and services companies need to constantly innovate while reducing costs to win. Capital costs are high, but prices constantly decline while competition from deregulation and globalization constantly increase. Read more
In addition to being technology leaders, winning companies need to aggressively reduce costs and offer differentiated, targeted services and products. We apply our tools to help clients in this sector combat unnecessary complexity arising from mergers and acquisitions, service and product proliferation, layers of organization, and lengthy processes, while driving growth. We make the organization lean and nimble, ready to address the next opportunity.
