Studies

IK Invest­ment Part­ners has reached an agree­ment to acqui­re a majo­ri­ty sta­ke in ALBA Baving Group. During the tran­sac­tion pro­cess h&z Manage­ment Con­sul­ting advi­sed on the com­mer­ci­al due dili­gence.

The new Ger­man Sup­ply Chain Act (“Lie­fer­ket­ten­ge­setz”), which is expec­ted to be intro­du­ced in Janu­ary 2021, is desi­gned to pre­vent human rights vio­la­ti­ons by com­mer­ci­al enter­pri­ses and defi­nes cor­po­ra­te respon­si­bi­li­ty in glo­bal sup­ply chains.

The Coro­na pan­de­mic is para­ly­sing the ent­i­re avia­ti­on indus­try. The Ger­man avia­ti­on sup­ply indus­try, an important and indis­pensable tech­no­lo­gy and inno­va­ti­on dri­ver and employ­er, is also affec­ted. Con­cre­te figu­res now show how stron­gly COVID-19 is affec­ting the key indus­try with its over 2,300 com­pa­nies, 111,500 direct employees and a tur­no­ver of 40 bil­li­on euros (2018): In order to deter­mi­ne the situa­ti­on of the deep-roo­ted aero­space sup­pliers, which are based throug­hout the Federal Repu­blic of Ger­ma­ny, h&z Manage­ment Con­sul­ting, in coope­ra­ti­on with the Ger­man Aero­space Indus­tries Asso­cia­ti­on, has con­duc­ted a stu­dy on the COVID-19 pro­blem. (BDLI) and the regio­nal asso­cia­ti­ons and clus­ters, h&z Unter­neh­mens­be­ra­tung AG con­duc­ted a sur­vey ent­it­led „Stu­dy: Impact of the Coro­na Pan­de­mic on the Ger­man small and medi­um-sized aero­space sup­ply indus­try“ from 6th to 8th April 2020.

The rapid chan­ge in the retail tra­de is for­cing indi­rect purcha­sing to take action. In retail, the per­so­nal „shop­ping expe­ri­ence“ is moving into focus. At the same time, sta­tio­na­ry retail and online busi­ness are increa­singly mer­ging.

Mobi­li­ty firms in search for pro­duc­tion sites seem to land at an all-time clas­sic of the auto­mo­ti­ve indus­try

Auto­no­mous peop­le mover vehi­cles are cur­r­ent­ly gro­wing like mushrooms after a rain. Many firms are pre­sen­ting their con­cepts and road-ready vehi­cles. Even at this year’s CES in Las Vegas, this new type of local trans­por­ta­ti­on was among the key tech­no­lo­gies.

Cha­ris­ma­tic Elon Musk hard­ly falls short on crea­ting public atten­ti­on. About two years ago, he announ­ced a pro­mi­sin­gly high vehi­cle crash rate reduc­tion with their Auto­steer sys­tem instal­led.

Short­ly befo­re the refe­ren­dum on 23 June 2016, con­sul­tan­cy h&Z con­duc­ted a sur­vey to deter­mi­ne whe­ther and to what extent Ger­man com­pa­nies had pre­pa­red them­sel­ves for a pos­si­ble Brex­it and with what sce­n­a­ri­os they were plan­ning.

2018 mar­ked many „firsts“ for the world of mobi­li­ty and trans­por­ta­ti­on: the first com­mer­ci­al „auto­no­mous“ ODM ser­vice in sub-urban Phoe­nix, the first appro­val to test level 5 self-dri­ving vehi­cles without back-up dri­ver in Cali­for­nia and, unfor­tu­n­a­te­ly, the first casu­al­ty in Tem­pe, Ari­zo­na. 2018 was a year of tech­no­lo­gi­cal pro­gress, cor­po­ra­te con­so­li­da­ti­on, bold pre­dic­tions and strong mar­ke­ting cam­pai­gns.

Geo­po­litcs, Sel­lers Mar­kets and Digi­tiza­ti­on chal­len­ge Pro­cu­re­ment and Sup­ply Manage­ment … Find out more about Klaus Katzers the­sis and solu­ti­ons …

Whoever sys­te­ma­ti­cal­ly cap­tures and ana­ly­ses struc­tu­red and unst­ruc­tu­red data can gene­ra­te valu­able know­ledge and make sound busi­ness deci­si­ons. h&z Busi­ness Intel­li­gence sup­ports its custo­mers to ans­wer com­plex ques­ti­ons in chal­len­ging mar­kets and pro­vi­des a valid basis for quick and relia­ble deci­si­on-making.

The neu­ro­sci­en­tist and entre­pre­neur Pas­cal Kauf­mann con­ducts rese­arch in the field of arti­fi­ci­al intel­li­gence and cyborg. He is con­s­i­de­red a radi­cal mas­ter­mind – also when it comes to digi­tal per­spec­tives for com­pa­nies. An inter­view with h&z.

Cars that dri­ve auto­no­mous­ly requi­re an accu­ra­te ren­de­ring of their envi­ron­ment; today, the sys­tems that are sup­po­sed to cap­tu­re the envi­ron­ment are still too expen­si­ve and too com­plex. The latest in LiDAR tech­no­lo­gy is sup­po­sed to chan­ge this. Read all about the new LiDAR sys­tems at h&z and when they will be laun­ched on the mar­ket.

Ela­bo­ra­te on how future Pro­cu­re­ment orga­ni­za­ti­ons can address and react to busi­ness needs in a digi­tal and dis­rup­ti­ve world. Dis­cuss the oppor­tu­nities & chal­len­ges with other seni­or pro­cu­re­ment lea­ders. Sign up for the event on Sep­tem­ber 24th, 2018.

Two peop­le respon­si­ble for one and the same busi­ness pro­cess? Sounds like a source of con­flict. But with digi­ta­li­za­ti­on in mind, the dual respon­si­bi­li­ty is actual­ly essen­ti­al – becau­se func­tio­nal mana­gers and IT spe­cia­lists should act as equals.

Sur­vi­ving Trump’s tra­de war: stra­te­gies for Ger­man indus­try

The Sci­en­ti­fic Socie­ty for Manage­ment and Con­sul­ting (WGMB) in coope­ra­ti­on with the eco­no­mic jour­nal Capi­tal honors h&z in the cate­go­ries “Trans­for­ma­ti­on” and “Purcha­sing & Pro­cu­re­ment.”

The digi­ta­li­za­ti­on of pro­cu­re­ment has shaken things up in com­pa­nies, but it has floo­ded the mar­ket with soft­ware offe­rings. At h&z, we will gui­de and sup­port you in deci­ding which digi­ta­li­za­ti­on offe­rings make sen­se for your Com­pa­ny.

At the first Rail Round Table held yes­ter­day in the h&z Munich office, rep­re­sen­ta­ti­ves of the rail indus­try dis­cus­sed the chal­len­ges the Euro­pean rail indus­try will face in the years to come.

Pro­cu­re­ment 4.0 will chan­ge dra­ma­ti­cal­ly “what we buy” – and “how we buy”. Lea­ding Swiss Pro­cu­re­ment Pro­fes­sio­nals from flagships like @ABB, @Amcor, @Glencore, @Roche or @Daniel Swa­rov­ski dis­cus­sed with us during our @h&z Manage­ment Con­sul­ting “Pro­cu­re­ment 4.0” book release at the his­to­ri­cal @Hotel Wid­der in Zurich on May 4th.