Cross-practice capability
Product Development & Industrialisation
Cost is created long before a part is sourced, and it is protected or lost through launch. We bring procurement, cost and supplier discipline into product programmes, from the first prototype to production readiness.
Why it matters
Most of a product’s cost is committed before the first purchase order.
Design choices, supplier nominations and tooling decisions made under programme pressure fix most of a part’s cost long before series production. Programmes that treat procurement as a step after design lose the chance to shape cost when it is cheapest to change.
We work inside the programme: setting and tracking cost targets, sourcing prototypes, nominating suppliers, managing tooling and coordinating APQP and PPAP, so that cost, quality and timing are managed together.
What we do
Through every phase of the programme.
Concept & targets03
- Cost-target development
- Product-cost evolution tracking
- NPI procurement
Prototype03
- Prototype sourcing
- Prototype and sample coordination
- Supplier nomination
Tooling & industrialisation04
- Tooling management
- APQP / PPAP coordination
- Supplier readiness
- Capacity validation
Launch04
- Launch readiness
- Programme governance
- Cost-quality-timing management
- Supplier escalation & recovery
Practitioner-led
Run by people who have launched programmes.
Members of our team have managed prototype and new-product programmes for commercial vehicles, working with suppliers from first prototypes through to production, and have run new-project purchasing in automotive OEM environments.
They know where programmes slip: late tooling, unready suppliers, unresolved cost gaps and approvals that arrive after the build date.
- Cost targets that engineering can design to.
- Supplier readiness reviewed on the shop floor, not by questionnaire.
- Tooling tracked from kick-off through try-out to approval.
- Escalations resolved before they reach the build plan.
Ways to engage
Programme support where it counts.
A programme with a launch date and open supplier risks?
We can join mid-programme, take stock quickly and govern through to production readiness.
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