In virtually every industry, we see the competitive stakes rising as companies are forced to move faster, become more efficient, and find fresh sources of differentiation. BCG's Operations practice dedicates itself to helping clients achieve a decisive competitive advantage through operational excellence.
Our work focuses on the business topics that are essential to performance improvement:
- Sourcing and procurement: Well-designed sourcing and procurement initiatives can generate substantial savings. We help companies institute the necessary building blocks.
- Manufacturing: Achieving manufacturing and production excellence means leveraging skills, know-how, and capabilities to generate competitive advantage and reduce costs. We support programs that range from shop-floor and production system streamlining to quality improvement initiatives.
- Supply-chain management: We focus on a consumer-pull orientation, rather than a supplier-push approach. Our work on this topic addresses all activities required to source, convert, and deliver product to the end customer, including global distribution and logistics operations.
- Rigorous program management: The ability to manage large-scale organizational change is a powerful, yet often overlooked, factor in operational success or failure. BCG's approach not only helps companies meet or beat goals; it also embeds implementation capabilities into the organizations.
- R&D and new-product development: We take a comprehensive look at every action a company must take to move a new offering from concept to maximum cash generation.
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Publications
November, 2010
[PDF]Global Sourcing in the Postdownturn Era
The economic downturn and its aftermath have had a major impact on how companies view and approach global sourcing. In addition to depressed demand, issues such as quality concerns, increasing labor and input costs, volatile raw material and oil prices, growing protectionism and longer supply chains have introduced greater risk and uncertainty—and called into question the sustainability of overseas sourcing. But according to a recent BCG survey, global sourcing is here to stay, although the focus continues to move away from labor cost savings alone to total cost or "best cost" country sourcing (BCCS).
April, 2009[PDF]Winning in a Downturn: Rapid Cash Generation
As the global downturn deepens, companies in almost all industries have seen a sharp decline in revenues. Companies must find new ways to quickly cut costs and generate much-needed cash without hurting future viability. The key is to take action on a number of fronts in a top-down effort driven by senior management. However, striking the right balance between cutting fat and preserving muscle is a significant challenge, especially as the cuts deepen. As intelligent, focused effort led by top management can deliver results in weeks instead of months, without damaging the core business.
Press Releases
October 29, 2010
Dynamics of Global Sourcing Change as Labor Costs Rise, According to New BCG Survey Report The economic downturn and its aftermath have had a major impact on how companies view and approach global sourcing. In addition to depressed demand, issues such as quality concerns, increasing labor and input costs, volatile raw material and oil prices, growing protectionism and longer supply chains have introduced greater risk and uncertainty—and called into question the sustainability of overseas sourcing. But according to a recent survey report by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), global sourcing is here to stay, although the focus continues to move away from labor cost savings alone to total cost or “best cost” country sourcing (BCCS). View more
BCG in the News
January 13, 2009
China Business News
Getting Through the Crisis Chinese companies should focus on three initiatives to increase survival ability, boost profitability and retain client resources.
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