Our Focus
The Strategic Cost Consortium’s capabilities apply to business-critical decisions in a wide range of industries. Our experience spans >200 companies and thousands of their businesses, including: discrete and continuous manufacturing; industrial and consumer products; high -tech and mature product lines; OEMs and Tier One/Two suppliers; domestic and multinational companies.
Strategy
Product line strategy: target customer segments with value propositions that resonate and position products as meaningfully differentiated from competitors
Price-to-win: employ a fact-based playbook for high-stakes negotiations or bid situations
Re-positioning: gain lost share or invigorate the value proposition
Industry consolidation war-gaming: calculate the impact of a competitor’s acquisition strategy on the industry landscape
M&A targeting: identify and seize non-obvious synergies in potential acquisitions
Divestiture strategy: identify the best transaction partners for non-core businesses
Product Innovation
Design—to—value: balance customer benefit and economic realities in product design
NPD cost estimation: set the cost target for new products with confidence
Cost & Margin Improvement
Feature / cost tradeoff optimization: quantify & prioritize design alternatives to maximize value
Strategic product rationalization: promote emotion-free and consensus-driven divestiture plans for legacy lines
Functional benchmarking: establish objective performance targets
Cost-out sprint: meet challenging cost reduction targets quickly
Procurement Excellence
Sourcing organization optimization: determine Purchasing’s overall effectiveness and identify improvements
Make v buy assessment: make supply chain decisions
New supplier development strategy: target investment in improving the supplier base
Supplier negotiation: achieve immediate cost reductions