Metals

We help develop footprint-optimization strategies for global and regional metals producers. We define the optimal portfolio of assets and product mix based on future growth plans, asset capabilities and cost, competitive environment, and specific customer needs.

We offer end-to-end transformation approach covering business, organization, and technology. With a holistic transformation framework, we help to overcome the trap of never moving out of studies in digitization and make digital and analytics a real enabler of business success. Our approach to advanced analytics brings together a robust delivery process with a collaborative team of specialists, which are both supported by proprietary technology and products.

We work with clients to transform the performance, health, and capabilities of their organizations. We use our industry expertise and our distinctive set of capabilities to help clients quickly stabilize operations by implementing a longer-term financial and operational transformation that repairs credibility with key stakeholders and maximizes sustainable value creation.

We help find pathways to decarbonization and define concrete plans to achieve it. We provide solutions for reaching maximum energy efficiency, minimizing waste, maximizing recycling and reuse, and rethinking resource ownership.

We supported a multinational steel-making company in creating the leading manufacturing analytics-enabled steel plants in the world and built digital and advanced analytics capabilities and change management at great scale. Our jointly developed initiatives covered all digital levers such as advanced analytics, automation, and process digitization across all main functions, which range from production and maintenance to marketing, procurement, and sales. Our support yielded an impact of over $50 million annual in earnings before interest, taxes, and amortizations (EBITDA) run-rate uplift—a 2 percent EBITDA uplift.

We assisted a leading aluminum-processing company with production assets across four continents in successfully delivering more than 20 use cases in production and supply chain, building digital and advanced analytics capabilities at scale across regions. Our support delivered over $40 million in annual impact within 24 months.

We have helped build strategies for a more sustainable future in metal industries that experience increased pressure to lower their CO2 footprint. By assessing the importance of all stakeholders (customers, investors, governments), we created scenarios on how to act upon changing environments and new target to assess the impact on operating and capital expenditures.

We designed and helped deliver a large-scale operational transformation program across upstream and downstream operations for a leading metals producer—delivering annual cost savings of $50-100 million with minimal or no capital investments.

We helped an Asian private-steel company to develop its 14th five-year-plan strategy. We assessed key future trends in the steel industry overall and the client’s market position as well as regulatory support and value chain opportunities. Recommendations were made along three vectors to gain competitiveness, including scaling up via M&A within the local province and formulating a product development and R&D capability roadmap to enter specific niche markets and extend the value chain.

We have gained deep insights from serving a wide range of metals companies—including many long-term clients—that include global firms, regionally focused firms, and integrated and specialist players. Our expertise spans all major commodities, and our broad experience encompasses Africa, Asia, Australia Europe, the Middle East, North America, and South America.

We bring expertise in all key capabilities—from operations, to capital productivity, marketing and sales, and sustainability. Our strategy work spans growth, corporate- and business-unit strategy, and market entry. In performance transformation, we help drive large-scale culture change alongside far-reaching operational improvement. And in organization, we make mergers work and structure complex metals companies for high performance.

We are trusted counselors to CEOs and other senior executives, bringing a top-management perspective to metals companies’ most important opportunities and challenges. We offer objective perspectives rooted in knowledge and analysis, and work collaboratively with our clients to shape high-impact, creative, workable solutions. We also invest heavily in building client capabilities.

We make major investments in knowledge, led by. The Basic Materials Insights (BMI) group houses around 60 leading professionals with deep expertise in all major metals. We offer our clients unique insights on supply, demand, trade flows, and prospects for steel, aluminum, copper, and other base metals. We publish extensively on these topics and are core participants in the world’s major metals conferences. We also collaborate with global institutions, metals associations, and policymakers to help shape the industry’s future.