Transportation

Methods for an industry in turmoil

Deregulation, privatization and liberalization in all aspects of transportation are creating an new competitive environment which is characterized by completely new challenges. Additionally, increasing cost pressures and growing expectations of customers are impacting on the core business.

Two things are equally vital: strict market orientation and efficient targeting and measuring systems for costs and performance. Additionally, companies must sharpen their awareness of new possibilities outside of their core business.

Nevertheless, this situation can be seen as an opportunity. The necessity for firms to rethink their structures can enable them to prepare today for the competition of tomorrow and hence stand them in great stead. It will then be up to them to define the limits of the structural change and redefine their own possibilities.

Our competency

In order to enable you to profit from the changing competitive conditions, we as process experts would like to accompany you through all the stages of product design to improved competitiveness. During this process we will pay special attention to making sure your new concepts are anchored sustainably in your existing company structures and integrate them in information systems so as to ensure optimal management control.

As Performance Architects, the Industry Center Transportation bundles the skills of our experts in problem-solving and combines it with the relevant strategic knowledge of our industry experts. This allows us to understand our clients’ problems, ensures our consulting work focuses on precisely your needs and also that the goals we work together to define are reached.

• We will analyze your strategic concepts and ensure their goals are reached in your company, for example with the help of the Balanced Scorecard approach
• We will support you by implementing an optimized controlling concept or by introducing center structures
• We will support your merger and acquisition activities throughout the appraisal and execution processes, and especially during integration
• We will install management control systems which will provide your management with an overview of strategic and operative performance at any time
• We will optimize your market and customer relations through targeted customer relationship management.

We have bundled our many years of experience in this industry into three business segments to ensure you receive the best possible consulting services:

In the railway sector, Horváth & Partners will help you face the challenges of local rail passenger transport, national rail passenger transport, rail freight, and all infrastructure issues. Logistics is broken down into courier express parcel services, transport companies and freight companies, as well as contract logistics. Aviation consists of airports, air freight and air passenger services.