Chemicals

The highly competitive chemicals industry faces challenges of finding cost-cutting solutions, implementing value-driven divestment strategies as well as handling all the recent merger and acquisition activity. A.T. Kearney's consultants have the industry-specific expertise to help our global chemical industry clients realize tangible results, from restructuring of global production networks to asset management to developing a guide to value creation through divestment strategies.

Value-driven divestments. A stringent and systematic approach for value-enhancing divestment enables traditional chemical companies and financial investors to successfully realize maximum value from a business considered for divestment and identify key value drivers. A.T. Kearney's proven approach in this area includes:

Validation of the business and development of the divestment case
Development of a value-creating strategy and corporate vision
Establishment of a detailed value-creating measures and action plan, including additional revenue growth potentials, cost structure diagnostics and assessment of cash flow optimization
Plan to unbundle the business and set up ready-to-divest candidate. Comprehensive program management is essential, addressing three major challenges: allocation of resources, separation of contracts and disintegration of IT systems
Preparation of the selling process
Development and implementation of a powerful internal and external communications plan

A.T. Kearney is known for delivering excellence in operations to its clients, and those in the chemical industry look to our expertise in restructuring the production network and asset management. Our consultants evaluate and balance four dimensions of the production network:

High capacity utilization
Enhanced delivery reliability
Inventory reduction
Reduction in operation costs, including quality costs.

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