Manufacturing
With the constant challenge of volatile markets, emerging product safety and environmental legislation and the emergence of new technologies and competitors, manufacturers need to be innovative with product design, efficient at manufacturing and strategic in identifying potential areas of shareholder value creation. Companies are undertaking initiatives to reduce their operating costs, as well as being more disciplined with regard to the business segments in which they invest and divest. Sierra Vista Group helps companies gain a competitive edge and reduce costs by thoroughly understanding each client’s unique business situation and by providing solutions to help them overcome challenges and meet their continually changing needs in the marketplace.
Services
Sierra Vista Group offers integrated services from its Advisory and Technology service areas. Working closely with our clients, our senior consultants design and implement solutions that improve operating efficiencies and enable faster “time to market” with higher levels of customer support. We know that companies with efficient business processes which are aligned with an integrated IT solution have the ingredients for success. SVG provides these services to each segment of the industry: discrete, one-off and small batch manufacturers through to process manufacturing and high volume/repetitive industries.
- Field Service Management, Estimates & Quotations, Stock Control, Materials Traceability, Bills of Materials, Sales Order Processing and Invoicing, Purchase Order Processing, Work Order Processing, Material Requirements Planning, Master Production Scheduling, Automatic Progress Chasing, Operational Performance Monitoring, Shop Floor Capacity Planning and Loading, Shop Floor Data Capture, Full Product and Job Costing, Key Performance Indicators and Reporting
- Integration with Accounting and Financial systems
- ERP Implementations
- Business Intelligence and Performance Management System implementations
- Business process redesign and optimization
- IT systems architecture, development, implementation and integration
- Operational and financial effectiveness
- Strategy development and implementation
- Organizational alignment and transformation
Client Challenges
While manufacturers are facing numerous challenges, SVG can assist in providing guidance and solutions to the following:
- Eroding revenue streams from historical lines of business
- Leveraging technology to improve competitiveness
- Navigating through constantly changing technologies and reporting requirements
- Coping with disparate and non-integrated IT systems
- Integrating merged/acquired entities
- Managing cost structures
- Maximizing human resources utilization
Business Value
Sierra Vista Group’s cross-functional consultants, in advisory and IT services collaborate to provide our clients with innovative ideas and solutions that directly enhance business value. The following highlights demonstrate our experience and achievements with our clients.
- Implemented enterprise ERP solutions that provided significant operating efficiencies, reduced working capital requirements and improved financial controls
- Advised on the restructuring of business operations as well as enterprise IT initiatives. The sale of non-core businesses and product lines was an instrumental component of this strategy.
- Provided interim IT leadership to remediate/stabilize underperforming IT operations
- Developed and implemented global field services platforms that met the diverse needs of a world-renowned organization and was deployed in 26 countries
- Increased customer satisfaction by redesigning existing systems and developing interactive web interfaces
- Worked with the CEO and executive management team to determine specific areas of shareholder value creation and aligned IT strategies to better meet the needs of the market
- Performed IT assessments of company systems, identified deficiencies and savings opportunities
- Developed enterprise wide cost/revenue alignment