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1 prevas.com Consultant companies in the supply chain Henrik Thomsen, Project Sales Manager, Prevas A/S

2 prevas.com Characteristics of the consultant business Order production – non-repeatable, but... Dealing with humans... Vague descriptions of ”commodity” – but necessary Living off - knowledge, competencies in specialized fields - ability to perform - availability - on/off flexibility - knowing the ”future” - ability to grasp customers situation - technically, economically and social - and trust...

3 prevas.com An example consultant company - Approx. 500 employees - Geographically distributed Sweden, Denmark, Norway - Looking further out Dubai, UAE and Bangalore, India - Close to customers

4 prevas.com Place in supply chain Typically placed as single specialist Either having the enterprise Or being sub-supplier to enterprise holder

5 prevas.com Future demands... - Diffuse customer network - Fast time to market - Greater product flexibility - Greater production flexibility

6 prevas.com Future solutions – platforms Increased demands for: - cost optimization - time to market - flexibility during and after the development proces Move toward making standard products of services - Hardware platforms - Operating system platforms - Template application programming - Open source - Smart offerings – ultra fast offerings based on known products

7 prevas.com Future solutions – flexibility Increased demands for: - Specialized competences - Ultra fast availability – on/off availability - Deep knowledge of customer Move toward making standard products of services - Agreements linking customers and suppliers - Universal development and documentation tools - Universal norms - The ability to take on the role of deep knowing buyer rather than developer. - Smart offerings – ultra fast offerings based on known products - Financing Sandra Claesson, Prevas

8 prevas.com A sample consultant company tomorrow Networking, networking, networking… - Customers - Partners - Sub-suppliers

9 prevas.com Technology in the supply chain - tracing From RFID tags to microprocessor based: - Monitoring - Tracing - Testing

10 prevas.com Technology in the supply chain - robotics Automated robotics: - Monitoring - Movement -Testing Requires: - Positioning - Power management - Real time feed back - Vision, Ultrasound, radar, laser - Ultra fast dsp on gadget level

11 prevas.com Questions...


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