Centers of Excellence

ABeam Consulting provides a full range of business transformation services that drive strategic advantage, improve business processes, leverage technology innovation, and enhance organizational performance for companies in industries ranging from automotive to utilities.

In addition, ABeam in Europe not only has innovative solutions/services to address hot topics such as Service Oriented Architectures, Strategic Pricing and more, but have also developed solutions/services specifically for the European marketplace.

GROWTH AND INTERNATIONALIZATION

Through the process of globalization, the physical distance between Asia and Europe has become less of a barrier for international business relationships. However, if your company already does or intends to do business globally, you will regularly face many difficulties in running your business effectively in different market environments. This situation may require you to seek a “Real Partner” who can provide professional services with profound knowledge and expertise in various areas.

ABeam Consulting offers a range of consulting services that provide a “bridging” function for companies in Asia (main focus on Japan and China) and Europe (primarily Germany, Austria, and Switzerland). Our core competency is to develop and design strategies for market entry, sales and distribution, corporate management, process design, organization setup, and operational support for their implementation. Our approach is characterized by taking into account both the individual needs of the client organization and local market requirements.

ABeam also supports international M&A activities of European companies in Asia and vice versa. Our team relies on a wide network of funding banks, governmental institutions, chambers of commerce and private equity companies in Europe as well as in Asia. As part of our Real Partner philosophy, our consulting services also encompass a risk and benefit sharing scheme for all projects.

INTEGRATED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

Information is one of the most important assets of a company, but unfortunately, many companies do not take an integrated, cross-functional approach to its management. As a result, numerous business initiatives only consider a part of the picture and are not able to leverage the full value of the information that is available.

ABeam Europe’s Integrated Information Management practice is dedicated to providing a holistic view of data and information from across your organization by focusing on the following strategic initiatives:

• Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence ensure that the Key Performance Indicators a company needs to successfully drive the business are in place.
• Master Data Management defines data structures and rules so that the data for daily business and management decisions is accurate.
• Data Lifecycle Management focuses on migration processes and data distribution processes to make sure that the business uses high-quality data from the beginning.
• Data Governance and Processes maintain the quality of your data at the best possible level.

JAPANESE MULTINATIONALS

As a company with its origins in Japan, ABeam Consulting has already provided business transformation services to numerous Japan-based corporations with a deep understanding of Japanese and European cultures. These services include

• European Market Entry Support
• Project Management Support
• Business Process Assessment and Restructuring
• IT System Assessment and Strategy Definition
• IT System Implementation
• IT System European Rollout

As a Real Partner, ABeam supports Asian based corporations on a global scale with services that lead to sustainable profitability.

LEAN RAPID COST REDUCTION (LRCR)

The current worldwide economic crisis requires unprecedented speed to action in order to survive without jeopardizing long term profitability. With ABeam’s pragmatic, modular approach, companies can act quickly and decisively, accelerating activities that will not only yield short term gains but also position them for long-term success. Our service offering and approach for LRCR has been developed by ABeam in collaboration with selected clients from the manufacturing and consumer sectors across Europe, allowing you to leverage their expertise to act with precision, speed and sustainability in your own cost reduction programs.

The goal of the program is to implement a culture of Continuous Improvement within your entire organization. To this end, a customized plan will be designed for your organization that focuses on short and long term cost reductions at all levels of the organization as well as the implementation of lean processes with a cross-functional approach rather than following an outdated siloed approach.

MOBILE FIELDFORCE TRANSFORMATION

In today’s trying global economic climate, all enterprises are faced with a sobering challenge – how to achieve more with less. To maintain competitive edge the search for increased productivity, higher levels of customer service and reduced wastage can feel like a never ending search.

Nowhere is this more apparent than in the mobile fieldforce, where potential benefits from exploiting mobile work management technology are widely accepted. Enterprises have discovered the value of field worker mobility. Armed with mobile devices that provide a real-time connection to the rest of the business, field sales and field service personnel can achieve greater levels of efficiency and effectiveness.

Our view of Field Service Management is simple – it is the lifeblood of the modern service organization. Without proper management and control over the service management value chain, a business cannot effectively service and support its customers or assets. Put simply, it is the single most important cog in the wheel of any service or asset-intensive organization.

ABeam has amassed extensive experience and knowledge of fieldforce transformation programs over years of successful implementations in industries from Public Sector to Utilities. We provide impartial technology advice and robust project management practices to ensure success from the start.

As a Real Partner, we apply our unique insight, operational best practices and technological best practices into a transformation strategy that works best for your organization. Our multi-dimensional approach across people, process and technology ensures the integrity of business processes and the optimization of existing technology investments, while paying particular attention to change management to ensure employee acceptance.

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT SERVICES

Companies continuously look for professional advice in optimizing their business transformation programs to ensure they focus on what is crucial, set correct priorities and realize the expected benefits. ABeam Europe has grouped its most experienced senior program managers (all with on average 15+ years of experience in successful program and project management assignments) into the Program Management Center of Excellence, a group that focuses primarily on:

• Ongoing exchange of experience and market trends by organizing round tables and presenting at key events
• Addressing urgent client issues by sending in SWAT teams
• Advising clients through cyclic review of the efficiency and effectiveness of program portfolios
• Ongoing investment in the development of new tools, methodologies and thought-ware
• Training of client personnel on general project and program management skills

ABeam offers a free Quick Health Check of an organization's Program Management Services. Click here to take advantage of this offer. For more details on ABeam's Program Management Services, download our brochure.

SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURES (SOA)

Companies have long sought seamless interoperability among existing systems and new applications to support all business operations. SOA is a very “hot” topic that everyone wants to adopt to solve their technology problems. While SOA might be the answer to address some business requirements, adopting it is a strategic choice.

Our SOA-related services, combined with industry leader Cordys, enable customers to improve performance of business processes more rapidly while maintaining high levels of adaptability. ABeam Consulting’s SOA Readiness Assessment Methodology takes a “maturity model” approach that defines your pre-requisites before embarking on a SOA initiative and pinpoints the right business process and business units to start with on your SOA journey.

STRATEGIC PRICING

Strategic pricing requires a new relationship among functional areas within a company. Mastering the essential pricing capabilities is the key to profitability. ABeam Consulting has developed a pricing approach which includes the components of:

• Value Creation and Segmentation
• Price structure
• Price and Value Communication
• Pricing policy
• Price level

ABeam Consulting's strategic pricing approach addresses all elements of pricing as an integrated portfolio to improve your performance. Following these key elements in your specific pricing program – based on our proven and pragmatic approach – will enable you to unlock hidden profits.

Companies using SAP’s enterprise solutions gain additional value from ABeam’s relationship with Vistex, whose certified Incentive & Chargebacks add-on applications streamline chargeback processes, reduce errors, validate claims, reduce disputes, prevent overpayments, and achieve extensive savings in labor costs.

SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY+

Managing Supply Chain Security and Customs & Foreign Trade is currently one of the most challenging tasks for companies and their business partners around the world:

• Ever changing laws worldwide force permanent attention
• The requirements of authorities and legal advisors towards Supply Chain operations result in additional administrative effort and increasing costs that are often underestimated
• The various changes in business processes, organization, policies, and technology solutions are difficult to prioritize and to realize

Violation of laws or poor management of internal Supply Chain controls bears the risk of additional costs. On the other hand, higher overall process efficiency can be achieved by leveraging opportunities for the reduction of customs duties and through customs simplification along the Supply Chain.

ABeam’s Supply Chain Security+ services go beyond merely fulfilling legal requirements around compliance and risk, which are lengthy and costly and result in increased administration, waste of resources and inefficient processes. Our approach is designed to achieve sustainable value and benefits by embedding process improvements from the beginning. It is built upon a pragmatic and solid methodology that helps you to focus on improvements for the most appropriate goals and processes, analyzes their impact on the organization and then manages the implementation of technology solutions from end to end.