The automotive finance business, especially the captive segment, has seen decades of almost continuous growth. However, more recently the market has experienced its fair share of disruption, whether via developments from within the automotive industry itself, such as electrification, or due to multiple new entrants, many without any automotive heritage and whose proposition is app-/technology-based. Mobility services product innovations, for example car sharing and subscription, have impacted negatively on margins, whilst increasing complexity. This puts particular pressure on legacy IT, which must suddenly serve rapidly growing customer expectations of real-time online access and flexibility.

AVANTALION helps its clients in all areas of Automotive Finance and Mobility Services, whether it is bringing the most recent market developments and practices to established businesses, or providing practical and pragmatic industry expertise to more nimble, recent arrivals in the sector. With a strong heritage in the mobility sector, AVANTALION is able to tailor its offering in areas such as project and process management, as well as provide bespoke services in areas such as the modular definition of financial products and future-orientated, process-based operating models.

The current challenges for industry are as diverse as they are complex. Cost pressure on companies is steadily increasing, and not just the usual market and customer commercial constraints. Rising manufacturing costs, both raw materials and energy, as well as the globally grim economic situation, are greatly increasing the burden on business. In specific sectors, this problem is further intensified by political and legislative hurdles. Strategic decisions to outsource production steps to suppliers or offshore seem ever more often to be reaching their limits; not only are rising transportation costs stressing the global supply chain, but so too are quality defects, production disruptions and concerns regarding the associated environmental impact. In addition, our industry customers are facing a new definition of the organization of work; “New Work” is becoming a guideline of the process design of the future. And with more rapid staff turnover, a shortage of skilled human resources and demographic change, preserving knowledge in industry is becoming of critical importance.

Successful companies of the future will be those who deliver services tailored to the individual needs of the customer, and still at the lowest possible cost and in the shortest possible time. Businesses have to succeed in increasing their speed of action and reaction and continuously align their processes to the requirements of the market. All processes in the entire value chain must be optimized right across the company’s landscape and all designed to minimize waste. And the administrative and support areas of the enterprise must also search for ways to improve productivity and efficiency. The services business grows in significance. The ability to develop and implement hybrid service bundles and even holistic system approaches – for example, from wind, solar and storage solutions in the renewable energy market – is becoming decisive for success.

AVANTALION supports and guides the transformation of its industry customers from the conception to the successful implementation of change. The solutions we develop are individually tailored to the business need. A focus on operational excellence characterizes all the transformation projects we conduct. We use the principles, methods and tools of Lean Management to design processes with minimal waste and to establish a culture of continuous improvement. We ensure the sustainable success of the improvement projects with the help of effective project management and demand-oriented change management.

Change Management.

Operational Excellence | LEAN

• Lean Production
• Lean Service
• Lean Administration

Business Process Management:

• Modelling & Design
• Process Optimisation
• Process Mining & Simulation

Target Operating Model.

Business Process Management

• Modelling & Design
• Process Optimisation
• Process Mining & Simulation

Project Management

• Classic
• Agile
• Hybrid