Manufacturing Experts

Kaj Grichnik Peter von Hochberg John Potter Dermot Shorten

Booz Allen Hamilton's global team of manufacturing specialists are as experienced on the shop floor as they are in the boardroom.  Their manufacturing work has long been core to our firm, and over the past 50 years the group has contributed to leading-edge manufacturing approaches like the PERT methodology, the ISSR cost-driver analysis, and our integrated approach to overcoming "Manufacturing Myopia."

We not only help our clients become the most competitive manufacturers in their industry; we build the capability for our clients to keep continuously improving their performance on their own.

For more information on Booz Allen's manufacturing capabilities and the strategy+business Reader "Manufacturing Realities—Breaking the Boundaries of Conventional Practice," visit www.manufacturing-realities.com.

Manufacturing Strategy

Booz Allen is the world’s leading firm in setting overall manufacturing strategy.  Our approach and capabilities are unique in that we connect product strategy, competitive cost understanding, logistics/network design, and manufacturing-footprint development.  Our work in manufacturing strategy helps clients define where their manufacturing plants should be, what process technology they should use, and what operating philosophy they should follow.

Manufacturing Improvement

Booz Allen is able to bring dramatic improvements to manufacturing operations in the short term, through significant indirect and direct labor-productivity improvement, and in the medium term, with manufacturing operating systems that continuously improve operations. 

Our experience in working to improve a network of plants through best practices, organizational alignment, lean business process development, and supporting systems is unique, and we help our clients connect all of these aspects into a complete operating system and approach.  We are also experienced at individual plant turnarounds, design-driven cost reduction, warranty-cost reduction, and significant quality improvement.

Manufacturing Expertise

Four different projects illustrate the breadth of our work for manufacturing clients:

• Performed a best-practice exchange and performance-benchmarking project for a recently merged pharmaceutical company
• Conducted a global program to improve product quality for an industrial equipment manufacturer
• Implemented a five-year manufacturing cost transformation for an aerospace company
• Performed a diagnostic of manufacturing competitiveness for a global consumer goods manufacturer

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