Where is the value?
Benchmark margins, working capital and operating capacity against the right peer set. Receive a diagnostic, peer benchmarks and the value-creation priorities to test with your team.
Explore the capabilityIndustry research
Industrials & manufacturing
Benchmark manufacturers’ performance, cost structure and cash against peers.
Industry context
Scope and topics in this sector.
- Research scope
- Manufacturers and industrial services
- Topics investigated
- Production constraints, cost pressures, cash tied up in operations
Your next decision
What does your team need to know?
Understand why performance differs from peers
Turn a broad performance concern into specific value-creation questions for management.
- Your question
- Where do we lead or lag comparable businesses, and what might explain the gap?
- What we investigate
- Growth, profitability, productivity and business mix, with differences in definitions and disclosure flagged.
- What you receive
- A performance diagnostic, comparable peer benchmarks and a prioritised list of improvement hypotheses to test with management.
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Find margin and cost levers
Focus improvement work on cost areas and commercial practices that merit investigation.
- Your question
- Which costs or revenue practices could be putting pressure on margins?
- What we investigate
- Cost structure, overhead, operating models and pricing practices using disclosed evidence and permitted inputs.
- What you receive
- A cost comparison and the improvement hypotheses to test against your own operating data.
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Investigate cash tied up in operations
Identify where working-capital improvements could free cash for other priorities.
- Your question
- Where might inventory, collections or payment cycles be absorbing cash?
- What we investigate
- Inventory turnover, receivables, payables and cash conversion relative to peers and historical performance.
- What you receive
- A working-capital diagnostic: where cash is tied up and the likely causes.
Benchmarking and performance diagnosticsAvailable now
Investigate supply-chain dependencies
Focus resilience planning on the dependencies and constraints that need closer examination.
- Your question
- Where could production constraints or concentrated supply affect our plans?
- What we investigate
- Industry supply chains, production capacity, geographic concentration and potential capability gaps.
- What you receive
- A dependency map of the supply chain, with the constraints that matter most marked.
Benchmarking and performance diagnosticsAvailable now
Capabilities
The capabilities these questions sit under.
What could change the plan?
Investigate supply dependencies, industry shifts and climate exposure against your framework, with the assumptions and evidence gaps made clear.
Explore the capabilityStart with one question
Bring us the question behind your next decision.
Tell us what you’re investigating and when you need an answer. We’ll discuss the scope, inputs and research that would help.