CONSUMER & INDUSTRIAL GOODS

Industry focus on Consumer Goods, Industrial Goods and Retailing

The traditional business structures in the field of Consumer & Industrial Goods are changing radically – and changing at a rate never seen before. Globalization, rising prices for raw materials, the increasing pressures of costs and competition: all these often lead to falling returns. Against this background, it is constant innovation and rigorous alignment of the value chain with corporate strategy which are needed to supply the necessary success and growth.

Despite this, there is no blueprint for success. Companies require tailor-made solutions which help them overcome the following challenges:

• How can we tap into additional turnover potentials and increase returns?
• How can we substantiate corporate strategy, implement it and make it measurable?
• How can we ensure the development of our products and services always meets the needs of the market? How can we develop new markets?
• Which processes, structures and management tools will help us stand out clearly from the competition?
• Which controlling tools do we need to use to ensure our operations are managed optimally?

Competence

With Horváth & Partners you have an experienced partner at your side. Numerous renowned companies both from Consumer & Industrial Goods and from Wholesaling & Retailing have joined the ranks of our satisfied customers since we were founded more than 25 years ago.

We will help you achieve sustainable improvements to your performance. We will accompany you from concept to successful implementation. Our project teams consist of experts for special methods and solutions and of industry specialists. It is the successful combination of innovative approaches with best practices from our extensive experience in the field of consulting which is both an important characteristic and a demand we place upon ourselves at Horváth & Partners. One of the main pillars of the success of our projects is the implementation of business concepts in the real world of industry, from appropriate IT through to involving and training the employees affected.

Topics

Our consulting services in the field of Consumer & Industrial Goods can be broken down into the following categories:

Strategic Management & Innovation
When it comes to safeguarding strategy realization, with us you are in the best of hands. Indeed, the practical implementation of strategy maps and balanced scorecards is synonymous with the name Horváth & Partners. We are also a top address for designing strategic incentives and objectives systems, for the strategic prioritization of investments and for strategy-based budgeting.

Process Management & Organization
We have channeled our extensive experience of designing and managing organizations into one integrated approach to structuring organizations. Differentiated modules within the approach ensure that we design and implement the right solution for your organizational challenges. Our consulting activities comprise restructuring and cost management, business process engineering, activity-based costing, purchasing and supply chain management, and sales performance management, to name but a few.

Management Accounting & Controlling
Horváth & Partners – we are Management Accounting & Controlling, or Controlling for short. This may be a very confident statement, but one we feel justified in making. For more than 25 years, Horváth & Partners have supported companies in all matters pertaining to performance-based corporate management and control. No other consultants in Europe have an equivalent number of renowned controlling experts. We provide an enormous range of consulting services, including group controlling, planning, advanced budgeting, reporting, value chain controlling, consolidation, and designing functional and cross-discipline management control systems.