Thomas Group has helped automotive OEMs and Tier I and II suppliers, aftermarket manufacturers, distributors, dealers, and retailers succeed in an extraordinarily dynamic and competitive industry for nearly 30 years. The future is equally challenging, as the industry adopts new technologies and responds to escalating competitive pressures and increasing customer expectations for innovative products and service.
Opportunities are abundant, but profitable growth is becoming more difficult to achieve. Challenges, from the supply chain to the retail environment can upend even the best business plans. It is within this landscape that automotive organizations must conduct their business, while at the same time adapt to new regulations, reduce costs, improve capacity and inventory, and control health insurance costs and compensation costs.
Some of the more pressing challenges and opportunities facing the automotive sector today include the need for companies to increase business transaction volume to sustain and grow revenues, reduce costs while improving performance and improve supply chain efficiency, improve engineering productivity and time-to-market. Additionally, executives have to grapple with managing retiree and employer healthcare costs, adopt new emission regulations, and operate in a more environmentally sensitive manner.
Thomas Group helped a Big Three automaker overcome major operational hurdles with their metal fabrication division. The challenges were: improve on-time delivery of dies, shrink lead times, reduce die costs, and eliminate the division as the bottleneck in the vehicle development process. After realizing nearly half a billion dollars in savings, the senior executive in charge of the operation cited, “Thomas Group Resultants are implementers, they come in and get the job done. I like to say they are straight talkers.”
Thomas Group Resultants® delivered world-class results in a matter of a few short months.
To help meet these challenges, many automotive companies have chosen to work with a professional services organization that has its finger on the pulse of the automotive industry–an organization that deeply understands the industry’s fundamental business and financial issues. Only a global organization with the highest level of automotive industry expertise can add value to your operations.
Thomas Group Resultants are experts at helping businesses chart a course through the most challenging of times. We help automotive businesses leverage the power of our proprietary Process Value Management methodology, the best of Six Sigma, Lean, plus other tools and industry best practices to achieve:
In Thomas Group’s global automotive practice, we bring together professionals in these areas and more to help you address these important issues.
Our mission is to reduce costs and make our clients more profitable. We achieve this through improving operational processes and asset utilization and developing a culture of shared responsibility across the organizational structure.