{"id":5363,"date":"2019-09-06T15:23:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T14:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/industrial-and-chemicals\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T12:51:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T12:51:36","slug":"industrial-and-chemicals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/us\/industries\/industrial-and-chemicals\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrial and chemicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Industrial and chemicals<\/h2>\n<p>The current economic environment for the industrial and chemicals industry is characterized by uncertainty: international trade tensions, geopolitical instability and Brexit, to name a few. In addition, consumer expectations are changing, and regulatory requirements are constantly increasing.<\/p>\n<p>Globalization and digitalization are putting the value chains of industrial companies under pressure as they face an increase in customer requirements regarding quality and availability, and environmental constraints. They also need to innovate and differentiate themselves in order to continue to perform well against competitors, whether the competition is historical or due to new players. Consolidation movements are underway, as part of a race for critical size to finance ever larger investments.<\/p>\n<p>In this context, and more than ever before, the industrial industry is facing major performance and transformation challenges and must therefore adapt itself to cope with these developments and uncertainties.<\/p>\n<h2>Challenges in the industrial and chemicals industry<\/h2>\n<p>Industrial companies must be both flexible enough to finance their investments or external growth operations and able to continuously strengthen their capacity for innovation in terms of products and services, while maintaining economic performance levels in line with expectations.<\/p>\n<p>This depends on increasingly optimized and controlled operational performance across the entire value chain, from suppliers to customers, support functions and time to market.<\/p>\n<h2>How we can help the industrial and chemicals industry<\/h2>\n<p>We assist industrial clients by improving their operational performance in the following areas:<\/p>\n    <div class=\"accordion\" id=\"accordion\" data-id=\"5363\" data-eval=\"true\" data-field=\"accordions\" >\n                        <div class=\"accordion__item\">\n                    <div class=\"accordion__trigger js-accordion-trigger\">\n                        <h4 class=\"accordion__title\">Optimization of customer processes and strategy<\/h4>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__plus js-accordion-plus\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"accordion__content js-accordion-target\">\n                        <ul>\n<li>Pricing<\/li>\n<li>Invoicing<\/li>\n<li>Contract life cycle<\/li>\n<li>Cash flow improvement<\/li>\n<li>Service rate improvement<\/li>\n<li>Customer relationship and service<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Multi-channel and digital development<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__item\">\n                    <div class=\"accordion__trigger js-accordion-trigger\">\n                        <h4 class=\"accordion__title\">Cost reduction<\/h4>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__plus js-accordion-plus\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"accordion__content js-accordion-target\">\n                        <ul>\n<li>Cost variabilization<\/li>\n<li>Lean management<\/li>\n<li>Design to value on industrial investments<\/li>\n<li>Optimization of direct and indirect purchasing costs<\/li>\n<li>Optimization of shared services for support functions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__item\">\n                    <div class=\"accordion__trigger js-accordion-trigger\">\n                        <h4 class=\"accordion__title\">Time to market acceleration<\/h4>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__plus js-accordion-plus\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"accordion__content js-accordion-target\">\n                        <ul>\n<li>Development<\/li>\n<li>Optimization of the ideation process<\/li>\n<li>Industrialization and launch of new products and services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__item\">\n                    <div class=\"accordion__trigger js-accordion-trigger\">\n                        <h4 class=\"accordion__title\">Optimization of working capital and flows<\/h4>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__plus js-accordion-plus\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"accordion__content js-accordion-target\">\n                        <ul>\n<li>Forecasts<\/li>\n<li>Tactical and S&amp;OP planning<\/li>\n<li>Load\/capacity matching of resources<\/li>\n<li>Implementation of inventory policies adapted to the specificities of the industry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__item\">\n                    <div class=\"accordion__trigger js-accordion-trigger\">\n                        <h4 class=\"accordion__title\">Operational efficiency<\/h4>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__plus js-accordion-plus\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"accordion__content js-accordion-target\">\n                        <ul>\n<li>Optimization of organizations including roles and responsibilities<\/li>\n<li>Staff and performance management<\/li>\n<li>Change management<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n    \n<h2>Our approach<\/h2>\n<p>We apply a combination of technical expertise, operational experience and business knowledge to help our clients solve industrial and chemical issues and deliver lasting results. Our personal and pragmatic approach, with challenge where needed, ensures buy-in at all levels of our clients\u2019 businesses and a successful outcome. We have worked with a wide range of organizations in the industrial and chemicals industry including Ferrovial Agroman, Essentra, ASSA ABLOY, AkzoNobel, Liberty OneSteel, Bouyer Leroux, Arkema, Orora Group, Johnson Matthey and Essilor. <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/us\/about\/\">Learn more about us here.<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industrial and chemicals The current economic environment for the industrial and chemicals industry is characterized by uncertainty: international trade tensions, geopolitical instability and Brexit, to name a few. In addition, consumer expectations are changing, and regulatory requirements are constantly increasing. 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