Automotive Advisors & Associates is a consulting group, focusing exclusively on the automotive industry. Headquartered in Germany, we serve automotive clients worldwide. All of our partners and associates have more than 20 years of top level consulting experience in this industry or have held positions as Directors or Vice Presidents of leading vehicle manufacturers, suppliers or dealer-groups. We believe that global business expertise combined with profound analytical and project management capabilities is the key to successful client services. Today’s degree of globalisation requires clients and their consultants to work internationally. This requires skills that are in short supply. Automotive Advisors & Associates work with their own core-teams and experienced client staff and management. Depending on the nature of the project, we draw on additional resources or work in co-operation with other local service groups like market research firms, strategy consultants, tax advisors, lawyers, automotive engineering companies or investment banks. This enables us to serve on many types of projects where interdisciplinary skills are required. Ninety per cent of our assignments deal with international expansion or new market issues.

Some examples of projects are:

• Market entry strategies for new markets in Europe, Russia, Asia, America
• Product strategies
• Acquisition strategies; search and due-diligence
• Production readiness programmes for Suppliers
• Aftermarket strategies
• Supply chain management improvement programmes including inventory optimisation
• Customer service management
• Distribution network design
• Dealership management programmes
• Project management for internal cost-reduction and process improvement programmes

We also help suppliers and dealers win more business with OEMs; supply contracts, import contracts and dealer franchises. Our extensive network within the automotive industry helps to find the right contacts and manage effectively the entire marketing and acquisition programme.

A series of valuable briefings about automotive industry issues are regularly published on our website. Registered clients receive updates as they are published.

Please contact the Managing Partner, Hanns Günther Bollig, by phone on +49 2103 363980, by e-mail hanns.g.bollig@automotive-advisors.com or visit our website http://www.automotive-advisors.com

 

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