Just because you appear to be performing well when you look at high level measures, what is it actually costing the business?
Oliver Wight helps Industrial Manufacturing leaders identify ‘value leakage’ in order to create a resilient and unified Enterprise Business Model.
IBP exposes the behaviours that block alignment. When we fix those, performance follows.Monte Maritz
Oliver Wight frequently works with clients in the Industrial Manufacturing industry. Read on to learn how we help foster workplace efficiency and long term organisational growth
Balancing custom, resource-heavy projects with standard production runs is a classic industrial challenge that often leads to margin erosion and missed delivery dates. We solve this by implementing a robust Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process.
IBP provides the medium-to-long-term visibility needed to properly allocate engineering hours and machine capacity months in advance. By establishing a unified Enterprise Business Model, we ensure your commercial team isn’t selling capacity that your production team doesn’t have, bringing total alignment between your order book and your factory floor.
In complex manufacturing, global supply chain disruptions often force teams into a state of constant, costly expediting. We help you regain control through Integrated Tactical Planning (ITP). While IBP manages the long-term horizon, ITP focuses on the critical 1-to-13-week execution window.
It provides a structured weekly process to align purchasing, production, and customer service, allowing you to identify material constraints early, optimise your Supply Chain Management execution, and transition from reactive firefighting to controlled, predictable output.
Unlike standard equipment sales, aftermarket demand is lumpy, urgent, and highly unpredictable. We tackle this by upgrading your Demand Management capabilities specifically for the service side of your business. By combining advanced statistical modelling with AI Integration, we help you analyse your installed base data, equipment lifecycle stages, and historical failure rates.
This allows your business to sense demand patterns for spare parts before they are urgently ordered, ensuring you have the right inventory in the right global hubs to maximise service revenue without carrying excess stock.
Silos between R&D, engineering, and manufacturing frequently result in unmanufacturable designs, endless engineering change orders (ECOs), and blown budgets. Fixing this requires more than a new software tool; it requires a cultural shift. Through our bespoke Change Management programs, we guide your teams from Method to Meaning™,
fostering a collaborative environment where manufacturability is considered at the design phase. We help embed cross-functional behaviours so that engineering and production operate as a single, cohesive unit.
Many industrial manufacturers invest heavily in capital expenditures (CapEx) and new technology without a clear link to future market demand. Our Strategic Planning & Roadmaps Integration service bridges this gap.
We work with your leadership to ensure that your 5-to-10-year technology investments are directly tied to your long-term commercial objectives. This prevents “technology for technology’s sake” and ensures that your new capabilities will actually support future revenue streams and deliver a tangible return on investment.
Oliver Wight pioneered the principles of modern business planning — the original inventors and leading exponents of Integrated Business Planning (IBP). For decades, our approach has set the global standard for alignment, performance and results. In fact, the majority of the world’s leading FMCG organisations run on the Oliver Wight IBP process — a testament to its lasting impact and proven success.