For over 30 years, Thomas Group has helped automotive OEMs, Tier I and II suppliers, aftermarket manufacturers, distributors, dealers, and retailers to succeed in an extraordinarily dynamic and competitive industry. The future will be equally challenging since the industry will have to adapt to new technologies and respond to escalating competitive pressures and increasing customer expectations.
Opportunities are abundant, but profitable growth continues to become 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 business all while conforming to new regulations, reducing costs, improving capacity and inventory, and controlling health insurance and compensation.
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, develop supply chain efficiency, and improve engineering productivity and time-to-market. Furthermore, executives must grapple with managing retiree and employer healthcare costs, adopting new emission regulations, and operating in a more environmentally sensitive manner. This is simply too much to face alone.
Thomas Group helped a Big Three automaker overcome major operational hurdles with their metal fabrication division. These challenges included improving on-time delivery of dies, shrinking lead times, reducing die costs, and eliminating the division as the bottleneck in the vehicle development process.
After realizing nearly half a billion dollars in savings with the help of Thomas Group, the senior executive in charge of the operation cited, “Thomas Group consultants are implementers, they come in and get the job done. I like to say they are straight talkers.”
Thomas Group consultants delivered world-class results in a matter of a few short months.
To help meet daunting challenges, many automotive companies have chosen to work with a professional services organization that understands the business and financial issues of their industry. Thomas Group consultants are experts at helping businesses chart a course through the most challenging of times. We help automotive businesses leverage the power of our proprietary methodology and the best of Six Sigma, Lean, and 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 meet your specific needs and goals.
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.