Hitachi Consulting: Manage ever-changing environment with processes and systems that give better visibility and control across the enterprise

Industrial Products

Industrial Products companies are faced with many challenges, from changing market conditions

to fluctuating costs and availability of raw materials, to managing complex global manufacturing and distribution networks.  To manage this ever-changing environment, companies need to become more responsive to both external forces and internal complexities.  They need processes and systems that give them better visibility and control across the enterprise that lead to faster enterprise-wide decisions.
  
At Hitachi Consulting, we help our clients understand the business case for change and then help them implement the means to capture those business benefits, including:

• Strategy Development & Assessment
• Enterprise Information Systems Implementation
• Business Intelligence
• Customer & Channel Management
• Process Improvement and Redesign
• Supply Chain Management
• Information Technology Architecture

Read examples of how we've helped:
Discrete and Fabricated Products
Wellborn Cabinet re-engineered 40 years of historic business processes from order taking to product delivery, establishing themselves as an industry leader in business process and IT innovation.

Automotive
Denso, a global automotive manufacturer, streamlined their financial planning to improve accuracy, provide integration, and enable a unified view of information across this global company and its subsidiaries.
 
Process Manufacturing
Milliken, a leading chemicals manufacturer, standardized their business processes, produce more accurate financial and operational views of business performance and key metrics, and streamline their product costing methodology to get needed visibility into standard manufacturing costs and profitability analysis.

See how we've teamed with systems providers like SAP, Oracle and Microsoft to provide the best solutions for Industrial Products companies.

Research Uncovers Barriers to Responsiveness
Hitachi Consulting and AMR Research recently conducted a study on what manufacturing companies are doing to be more responsive to customer needs and market conditions while also reducing costs. Interestingly, issues such as company culture appear to make a tremendous impact on the ability to respond appropriately and remain competitive.
Read the study results here.

Key Traits of Leading Manufacturers
What separates leading manufacturers from laggards? This article describes key traits that distinguish leaders from laggards.  Read the article here.

Click here to view Hitachi Consulting's SAPPHIRE NOW session video titled, "Heavy Equipment Supplier Leverages SAP Software for Growth."