Diversified Industrial

Throughout the past 25 years, AArete has identified cost reduction opportunities and implemented strategies to address these pain points wherever they have occurred within diversified industrial companies: inventory, overhead, logistics, distribution, payroll, or elsewhere. Today, we will take this same total-cost approach to helping your company eliminate or significantly reduce these costs. This approach is thorough, comprehensive. It starts with ideation and encompasses everything through implementation—and occasionally beyond.

From our history of strategic cost reduction, we have gained an unprecedented cross-industry experience with unique know-how, knowledge, and benchmarking expertise that we will apply to your company and its specific cost reduction efforts, regardless of industry. We also will bring the best-in-class practices to your company, whether they arose in your industry or in one far afield. Furthermore, from having conducted dozens of similar projects over the years, we guarantee a minimum ROI on your investment with AArete.

We bring to your cost-reduction project an unprecedented data analytics capability. Our Center of Data Excellence (CODE) team of analysts and data scientists will analyze your current spend and, then, join our subject matter experts in generating singular insights that enable us to define cost savings hidden beyond the low-hanging fruit. As you would expect, we use traditional analytics where appropriate. But, going further, we couple this standard approach with advanced data modeling (including predictive modeling) and an ability to handle huge volumes of data securely.

Many diversified industrial companies are unable to deliver their products cost efficiently. As a result, they are unable to stay afloat among the constantly shifting industry and market changes. To overcome these disruptions and to maximize results, you need a robust, dynamic, supply chain—one with a low operating cost that stems from improved, streamlined processes.

AArete can help. Our expertise in optimizing people, processes, and technologies across industries and verticals enable us to assess and improve your entire supply chain cost structure—from design and engineering to procurement, operations, manufacturing, and logistics. Working with your team, we first gain a thorough understanding of the supply chain function within your organization. We also conduct a current-state assessment of your supply chain’s pain points to identify those that need to be addressed quickly. Then, we recommend and implement a strategic plan for developing a streamlined, low-cost supply chain that improves your bottom line and increases your ability to outperform your competitors.

Data and analytics play an integral role in this work we do to improve your supply chain. We apply them to understanding your current operations and to establishing a lean supply chain with improved efficiencies that will help ensure your competitive positioning today and in the future. We also use them to create and implement measurable metrics specifically important to your organization and to develop a meaningful management-level dashboard that shows your continuous efforts over the years to address these metrics.

Besides our highly skilled professional consultants, AArete brings to your project a robust team of data scientists, data engineers, and technology experts. Members of this team at our Center of Data Excellence (CODE) have advanced analytics capabilities and expertise in the latest programming tools, including Python, R, SAS, STATA, and SQL. They use these tools and others to develop not only standard analytics models but advanced models, such as predictive modeling, AI, machine learning, and robotics. They analyze your problem and recommend the best solution. If, for example, that solution is robotic process automation, they develop a bot that converts a repeating, time-consuming, manual activity into an automated process that is faster, more accurate, and cost-effective, enabling you to deploy your human resources to more important tasks.

In addition, our CODE members’ ability to work with extremely large sets of data and their deep knowledge of specific industries and project types enable them to efficiently identify opportunities for cost savings and improvements within your organization. Together these data experts and our consultants offer an unmatched ability to solve complex problems effectively. We go deeper to understand more about your specific issues than our competitors can ever know. And we quickly identify opportunities that they may not find for months, if at all.

When we complete your project, we do not just walk away. Our data-driven solutions are repeatable. We leave them behind so you can effectively measure and track your ongoing efforts to achieve (or exceed) the primary goals we helped you establish.

Occasionally, every company has an executive who needs time away from the job or decides to move on to another organization. When you face this situation and need to fill a key position on an interim basis, you can turn to AArete for help.

Our professionals are flexible and agile. We can call on them to fill a suddenly vacant C-level or VP position in your organization because they have the functional knowledge and industry experience to manage the position effectively until you recruit a full-time replacement. Over the years, our consultants have served in interim roles throughout management—accounting, finance, operations, technology, and elsewhere—at many organizations across industries. In healthcare, for example, we have successfully filled interim roles from our network of subject matter experts, including those who previously led Medicaid programs and ran hospitals. Whatever your industry or specific requirements, we have professionals with the expertise, functional skills, and leadership experience you need.

Besides filling positions when executives take time off or leave a company, we also place consultants in interim roles to oversee the completion of Project Management Office (PMO) projects. AArete will assign a project leader (or a team, if needed) to lead your PMO effort whenever your internal resources lack the skills to ensure the project’s success. We have trained and certified project leaders with the subject matter expertise, specialized skillset, and intellectual capital to manage your project effectively from ideation through completion, ensuring the time and budget constraints are met and the guidelines and goals are completed as designed.

AArete applies a detailed methodology to every merger integration project—and tailors it for each company, including yours. This methodology drives our pre-merger steps to ensure compliances and to identify the merger’s potential synergies and their benefits. It also directs our post-merger efforts to synthesize all key disciplines of your company and the target organization to reduce redundancy, complexity, and the cost of the newly formed enterprise.

On the pre-merger side of the transaction, we help you identify a potential target for your company by either finding the target ourselves or determining that the company already chosen by your strategy team can be effectively integrated into your organization. Once the target has been selected, we conduct a White Room, independent review of both companies’ capabilities, operations, and contracts to identify all potential synergies available from the merger. We evaluate and value the merger’s potential opportunities to complement your organization by delivering value-add in both the near- and long-term. And we draw on the data analytics capabilities of our Center of Data Excellence (CODE) data scientists, data engineers, and technology experts and on the market intelligence of our consultants to support and validate your due diligence on the potential merger.

After the merger, we ensure that the synergies identified during the pre-merger come to fruition as quickly as possible. We help you maintain urgency and priority around these synergies, preventing the delay or loss of any one of them, while enhancing your ability to maximize the benefits of each. We help seamlessly fuse the people, processes, and technologies of both companies, and make certain that any inefficiencies are addressed and resolved quickly.

the best way forward, AArete can help you set the right course and start your company’s transformation. This transformation will not be easy, though. It will involve organization and people changes, new financial modeling, operational improvements, new, better technology and data analyses, and more. It will touch every aspect of the organization and alter every function—some more intensely than others.

Over the years, AArete has helped companies in your industry make needed transformations; so, we know the ins and outs of the industry. We also bring to your transformation an array of skills to ensure it will be successful. First among them is our ability to understand each function within your company and to unite them in an unprecedented level of cross-function collaboration to do what is best for the company. Second is our ability to manage change—that unavoidable, frightening concept involved in every transformation.

AArete will handle your transformation from ideation through implementation, customizing our approach to your company’s current state and the competitive levers you need to pull to achieve your transformation goal. We will start by interpreting signals from the marketplace and leveraging your data to thoroughly assess the company’s current state—identifying gaps, weaknesses, and problems. Next, we will help you determine your outcome goal and the strategic moves needed to arrive there at the end of the transformation. Then, we will implement sustainable solutions to ensure you get there. And we will, as always, guarantee a minimum ROI on your investment with AArete.