Facilitating Strategic Decision-Making Process of an Automotive Supplier through Streamlined Project Management

Overview

Our client, a tier 1 automotive supplier, wants to better prioritize its R&D projects in order to concentrate resources on projects with higher added value and maximize its new products time-to-market. KEPLER automotive industry consulting firm offers to rationalize its project management and project portfolio thanks to PPM methods and tools, to gain visibility and align the teams around common criteria accepted by all.

Context

A lack of visibility on the portfolios of individual R&D projects of each business entity within the group
Unsystematic detection of joint R&D projects at group level
Prioritization issues and budgetary decisions not always objective
Uncontrolled deadlines and budgets on R&D projects

Objective(s)

Category: Increasing the ROI of R&I

Streamline the management of R&D projects and portfolios

To successfully deploy a PPM system, it is important to take the time to define and converge the common functional needs in relation to the specific needs of each Business Line and the expected results at each level of the company (from management to operational).
Audrey Berthomieu, Manager

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Mathieu Pailler

Director

Mathieu graduated from Centrale Supélec as an engineer and the MSc from both Imperial College and ESSEC Business School. His career started in the Defence sector as a Business Developer…

Mathieu Pailler

Mathieu Pailler

Director

Mathieu graduated from Centrale Supélec as an engineer and the MSc from both Imperial College and ESSEC Business School. His career started in the Defence sector as a Business Developer before moving towards Management consulting in 2008. Mathieu specializes in the challenges of innovation & transformation of R&D organizations in the Automotive, Air Space and Defence, Chemicals, Cosmetics and Agrifood industries.
Audrey Berthomieu

Senior Manager

Graduated from Toulouse School of Economics (Master in Economics of Markets and Organizations), Audrey started her career at Airbus, with a first experience in enterprise risk management,…

Audrey Berthomieu

Audrey Berthomieu

Senior Manager

Graduated from Toulouse School of Economics (Master in Economics of Markets and Organizations), Audrey started her career at Airbus, with a first experience in enterprise risk management, then in performance management of industrial sites in Europe. Now Senior Manager at KEPLER, Audrey works mainly on topics related to the management of the innovation, standardization and development through the re-design of internal processes, the re-organization of R&D department and the modeling of offshoring strategies. She operates in the sectors of cosmetics, automotive, pharmaceutical and food industries.