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Expertise

Specialist industrial consulting and execution.

Particular depth in cost, procurement, suppliers, sourcing and industrialisation: from the analysis that defines a decision to the implementation that makes it real.

Flagship practices

Three practices, built around where industrial value is won or lost.

Flagship practice

Industrial Procurement & Cost Transformation

We do not stop at identifying a price gap. We determine where the economics come from and what must change to close it.

  • Should-cost & clean-sheet costing
  • Cost-reduction programmes
  • Direct & indirect procurement
  • Savings governance & validation
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Flagship practice

Global Sourcing & Supplier Operations

Build a competitive supply base, not a supplier list: from supply-market intelligence and RFQ to qualification, industrialisation and supplier performance.

  • Category-country assessment
  • Supplier identification & qualification
  • APQP / PPAP & production readiness
  • India Sourcing Office
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Flagship practice

Procurement Intelligence & AI

Industrial intelligence first. Technology where it creates value: spend, supplier, market and cost-driver intelligence, then client-specific automation.

  • Spend & supplier intelligence
  • Quotation analytics
  • Cost-model automation
  • Knowledge copilots
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Cross-practice capabilities

Capabilities that make the practices work in the real world.

Each one draws on all three practices, and each one is where our manufacturing experience shows most clearly.

Cross-practice capability

Product Development & Industrialisation

Cost is created before sourcing begins. NPI procurement, prototype sourcing, tooling, APQP/PPAP coordination and launch readiness.

Cross-practice capability

Supplier Development & Recovery

Sourcing a supplier is easy compared with making one production-ready. Capability, capacity, readiness and recovery.

Cross-practice capability

Industrial Benchmarking

Benchmarking should produce decisions, not just comparison tables. Product, technical, cost, supplier and route benchmarks.

Category & process expertise

Category expertise that goes below the spend cube.

Every category is supported by specialists who have worked with it at process level.

Direct

Sheet Metal & Fabrication

Stamping, fabrication, welded structures and enclosures.

  • Blank size & nesting
  • Press route & tonnage
  • Weld content
  • Finish & coating
Direct

Forgings

Closed- and open-die, hot and cold forging, with downstream machining.

  • Input weight & flash
  • Hammer, press or upset route
  • Die life
  • Heat treatment
Direct

Castings

Iron, steel and aluminium, in sand, die and investment casting.

  • Pour weight & yield
  • Core complexity
  • Fettling & rejection
  • Machining allowance
Direct

Machining & Precision Components

Turned, milled, ground and precision parts.

  • Cycle time per operation
  • Machine-hour rate
  • Set-ups & fixtures
  • Tolerance-driven process
Direct

Plastics, Polymers & Composites

Injection moulding, extrusion, blow moulding and structural composites.

  • Resin grade & specification
  • Shot & runner weight
  • Cavities & cycle time
  • Wall thickness & cooling
Direct

Electrical, Electronics & Embedded Systems

Harnesses, PCBs and EMS, sensors, control units, switches and connectors.

  • Copper & material content
  • Circuit & connector count
  • Component allocation risk
  • Labour & test content
Direct

Tooling, Dies, Moulds & Fixtures

Press tools, casting dies, moulds, fixtures and gauges.

  • Tool architecture
  • Steel grade & tool life
  • Try-out & modifications
  • Amortisation & ownership
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Wider direct coverage

  • Rubber, seals & elastomers
  • Mechanical components & motion systems
  • Hydraulics, pneumatics & flow systems
  • Power systems & e-mobility
  • Special processes & surface engineering
  • Raw materials & commodities
Full category coverage

Indirect, capital & operating spend

Indirect spend often receives less category expertise than direct materials. It can also deliver some of the fastest savings.

  • Packaging
  • CAPEX, automation & production equipment
  • Indirect procurement & MRO
  • Logistics, freight & warehousing
  • Energy, facilities & technical services
  • IT, digital & professional services

Representative category coverage. IICG assembles mandate-specific specialist teams around the product, process, spend category and industry involved.

Ways to engage

Clear entry points into serious work.

A full transformation programme can be a large first step. These engagements are designed to be easy to start and to prove value early.

Diagnose & prove

Procurement & Cost DiagnosticA fast, evidence-based view of where cost and supply risk sit, and which opportunities are worth pursuing first.
Should-Cost PilotClean-sheet cost models for a selected set of parts, to test the size and nature of the gap before a wider programme.
Quote-to-Award Cost ChallengeSpecialist challenge of live quotations before a sourcing decision is made.
Industrial Benchmarking StudyProduct, technical, cost or supplier benchmarking designed to end in decisions.

Transform & source

Cost Transformation ProgrammeA multi-category programme from baseline to finance-validated savings.
Strategic Sourcing ProgrammeCategory strategies, market tests and negotiations run with real competitive tension.
Supplier Search & QualificationNew suppliers identified, assessed and qualified to your standards.
India Sourcing OfficeAn industrial sourcing capability on the ground in India, provided as a service.

Deliver & recover

Supplier Development / Recovery SprintA focused intervention to stabilise, recover or ramp up a critical supplier.
Industrialisation PMOProgramme governance from supplier nomination and tooling to production readiness.

Lead & embed

Fractional Procurement LeadershipExperienced procurement leadership for mid-market manufacturers, for as many days as the role needs.
Procurement Diligence & 100-Day Value PlanProcurement diligence before the investment, and a value plan for the first 100 days of ownership.
Embedded Industrial SMESpecialist industrial capability placed inside a consulting or investment team.

How we work

From evidence to realised value.

  1. Diagnose

    Understand spend, product, specification, supplier, process and baseline.

  2. Engineer

    Build cost transparency and determine what economically should happen.

  3. Source

    Test supplier markets, alternatives and competitive tension.

  4. Decide

    Create fact-based commercial and strategic choices.

  5. Industrialise

    Qualify suppliers, tooling, process and readiness, and implement.

  6. Realise

    Track negotiated benefits through implementation and financial validation.

Tell us about the decision in front of you.

A part, a category, a supplier, a programme or a portfolio. We will say plainly whether and how we can help.

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