Strategy and Operations Consulting

HKPS Consulting’s strategy and operations-based consulting services help business leaders solve their most complex issues by bringing an approach to executable strategy that amalgamates deep knowledge of the industry, arduous analysis, and insight to empower assertive action.

Strategy Consulting

In this world full of disruptions, having a strategy has become more important than ever for businesses to set goals, design roadmaps, implement plans, and measure success. 

Strategy consulting helps organizations to adapt, lead, overcome difficult challenges, steer through new environments, and build new directions. 

At HKPS Consulting we are ready to help you reinvent, no matter what lies ahead, you can emerge stronger not only today but in future as well.

We help you create and achieve big ideas and plans. We bring with us unmatched capabilities, technologies, tools, and talent to each engagement. We will help you drum up for change, navigate uncertainty, and bend as needed so that you can achieve sustained and profitable growth.

How HKPS Strategy Consulting Services can help you?

The economic volatility caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that strategic vision is more significant than ever before. HKPS Consulting provides business leaders with progressive business strategy consulting services that assist in driving profitability and sustainable competitive edge.

We serve and shape, offer foresight and impact. By conducting meticulous research, building a comprehensible strategy, and effecting change to create alignment at each level. We enable your biggest strengths, overcome gaps and facilitate the adept navigation of strategic context to overcome the most complex challenges.

Our Strategy Consulting Offerings 

Overall Business Strategy

Whether you are experiencing challenges in your internal processes or company culture, or need a new business strategy to echo your company’s vision, we’re here to help.

Our business consultants can help you design an overall business strategy by helping you in adapting to today’s market dynamics. We provide you with tools to enable optimization of work, navigate and manage complex projects across businesses.

We focus on enabling and sustaining change, as well as creating platforms for constant improvement. And for that, we seamlessly integrate our business consulting, technology, and industry practices to help your business thrive.

Go-to-Market and Market Entry Strategy

The route to market is often complicated by limited data and fragmented distribution. HKPS Consulting’s forward-looking go-to-market approach helps businesses unlock profitable growth through a digitally enabled transformation of sales and distribution capabilities.

At HKPS Consulting we provide strategic, commercial, and financial support during the process of deploying new or existing products to market. We enable you with an array of expert insights touching on channel mapping, market analysis, distribution alignment, and route-to-market planning.

We help companies reevaluate their go-to-market plans and bolster their performance by embracing an integrated approach across the sales and distribution landscape.

Entering a new market involves high risk but at the same time it could be highly rewarding. Market research is vital for de-risking the process and designing a market entry strategy that will set your business up for success.

Our market entry strategy consulting services help organizations enter new markets in a number of different ways- from implementing low-impact market entry strategies to setting up a complete business, industrial, and retail operations.

We provide businesses with-

• Quick insights into different markets
• Market feasibility studies
• Entry strategy development
• Strategic analysis and market research
• Comparative risk assessment
• Growth strategies

We provide companies with a market entry strategy by leveraging primary and secondary research to enable conclusive outcomes. By combining primary and secondary data we will determine the shape and size of the market and the growth potential for your business, enabling you to make an informed decision. And by bringing you closer to your target audience, we will help you understand how best to localize your product, promotion strategy, and pricing to ensure your business grows in a new market.

Pricing Strategy

At HKPS Consulting we can help you build strong pricing capabilities so that you can get and set the right price each time.

Pricing strategy has been one of the most overlooked aspects of business operations. Yet it is one of the most important ways for any organization to improve its bottom line. Having a properly managed pricing strategy can make the difference.

We have experienced and skilled pricing experts and we constantly include new scientific findings in the field of pricing such as the use of AI/ML-based pricing algorithms, dynamic pricing, and behavioral aspects.

At HKPS Consulting we know how to successfully navigate all challenges that an organization may face in the pricing field. Our pricing experts have the expertise that you need to implement impactful and successful pricing strategies over the long run.

End to End Supply Chain Strategy Consulting

HKPS Consulting helps companies focus on building sustainability and resilience in their supply chains to alleviate disruptions and maximize return on critical investments.

With consumer expectations becoming increasingly diverse and complex, optimum manufacturing locations and potential markets are constantly shifting. The increasing interdependencies at each level has made supply chain network even more vulnerable to economic and natural disruptions.

Companies now have to respond to these situations by making their supply chains adaptive, sustainable, and agile. The supply chain strategies have to mirror the overall business strategy.

How HKPS Consulting can help you in end-to-end supply chain optimization?

We focus on improving the metrics- cost, speed, and delivery that are vital to success so that the companies can reach peak supply chain performance.

We have a pragmatic approach that can help companies-

• Translate business strategy into clear supply chain requirements 
• As required for the business transformational journey, we make sure top-management support and buy-in
• Evaluate where systems and technologies are required to support your over business strategy 
• We consider external perspectives, enabling alignments and transparent discussions with suppliers and consumers from an unbiased level.
• Ensure that key success factors are in place
• Implement change management actions from the beginning of the design, to ensure across the organization there is model adoption, and support successful implementation.
• Build a clear roadmap for the gradual evolution of the supply chain model while taking into consideration business capabilities and context to make it implementable.

HKPS Consulting supply chain strategy consulting services address the complex issues and opportunities to protect and grow your business. With an understanding of your overall business strategy, we help you redefine your end-to-end supply chain and operations to support your organization’s objectives. 

Competitive Market Analysis Consulting Services

Having an effective business strategy is based on two things-

• What your organization is doing?
• What your competitors are doing?

To develop an effective competitive analysis there is a need for rigorous evaluation of the performance of your company relative to one or more competitors. A thorough assessment of your own business compared to your competitor has to be performed.

Our consultants gather raw data and perform comparative and competitive analysis and convert that data into useful insights for your business. With this information, the key decision makers can have the inputs to make strategic decisions that will help them get a competitive edge in the industry. 

Competition is one of the most vital factors that determine the success and failure of your business. At HKPS Consulting we study and do the analysis of each element – competitor products and services, customers, target group, competitive advantage, financing, and strengths and weaknesses by using appropriate tools. Our experienced team will carry out the research professionally to provide you with detailed market data, which is vital for creating your business strategy.

Operations Consulting Services

Strategy has always played a primary role in helping businesses improve and even reinvent their operations. Our ‘practical strategist’ approach and great foresight in operations have given us a unique positioning in this field.

Operations are a bridge between your company’s strategy and its long-term success. Now, more than ever, the organizations that use operations to move fast and build new capabilities at scale have a competitive edge.

Our consulting service aims at boosting your processes, ways of working, and underlying systems across a wide range of fields including supply chain, inventory management, logistics, warehousing, research & development, sales & marketing, and planning.

HKPS Consulting’s operations consulting services are positioned at the intersection of strategy, technology, and change to deliver sustainable, comprehensive growth.

We help you turn your vision into reality. Our experts will work alongside your teams to help transform your capabilities structures, solving issues right from the beginning, while building resilience for the future.

How we can help?

From the research lab and back office to the factory and across your entire supply chain, we can help you create an unhindered, end-to-end solution to transform your operations. Our consultants will ensure that you focus on opportunities that strengthen connect between strategy and operations and maximize competitive advantage.

Related Offerings –

Strategic Sourcing

With our strategic procurement planning process, we enable you to design an effective route to savings based on in-depth cross-functional alliance and a steady focus on your overall business strategy-from budget and target-setting, defining the operating plan to the execution, we will assist you at each step.

We work with you to ensure that program management, corporate finance, and strategic sourcing remain allied and work together on a structured program to reach the desired outcome. Also, we will create the dashboards and right metrics so that you can easily monitor the program to identify actionable and the key elements of each metric.

Supply Chain Planning and Inventory Management

Our strategic planning consultants leverage input from key stakeholders within the company, take information from individual contributors and key customers to develop a strategic plan while keeping the organizational objectives aligned for maximizing business results. At the same time we can help with tactical planning covering demand planning, supply planning and logistics & distribution planning

Our consultants will help you to manage rapid change and complexities inherent to technology service operations. We will assist you to set your strategic goals, improve operational efficiency and drive best-in-class performance while refining customer satisfaction and loyalty.

We work with organizations to optimize inventory management by getting you closer to the efficiency frontline and then by helping you transform to achieve advanced improvements in inventory efficiency. 

Our consultants will help you in addressing various facets of supply chain design and operations, including planning, procuring, manufacturing, distribution, product portfolio, and manufacturing network. We will also assist you in integrating digital capabilities across your supply chain

We can help your company to focus, make informed decisions and grow.

Supply Chain Resilience

Whether it is trade wars or the recent pandemic or any natural calamity, these are a few disruptions that the world is witnessing that have stirred the markets. Now, across the globe, the value of resilient and sustainable supply chains is appreciated. That is where we step in to help you with supply chain resilience

We bring with us our deep domain expertise, digital capabilities, and rich database of your business’s key performance indicators to develop customized and highly effective solutions to bring in resilience in your supply chain.

Supply chains, in many respects, are at the center of any organization’s sustainable strategy- and is key to success. We help you address important issues from one end of the supply chain to the other so that your supply chain and operations transform from the traditional approach to a more modern approach. 

Transportation and Logistics

To succeed in this segment there is a need to find the right balance between cost, investment and service levels based on the requirements.

We help you achieve this by-

• Determining optimal service levels based on consumer needs and the overall strategy for logistics and consumer service.
• Evaluating resource sharing across units, and make vital decisions on whether and what to own.
• Optimizing the order-to-cash process and the transport and warehousing elements of your logistics operations.

We also include best-in-class digitization and automation technologies wherever they harvest value while helping your teams acquire the capabilities they require to support constant improvements.

Warehousing Management

Now, warehouses are no longer storage spaces but host several value-adding processes such as product assembly, customization, just-in-time packaging, and in some cases they even act as consumer collection services.

Managing warehouses is not rocket science but at the same time, it is a critical aspect of your overall business strategy. Each and every expense in a warehousing operation is important since a small leak can lead to a bigger issue.

Efficient warehousing management depends on the following-

• Layout of the warehouse
• Sections within the warehouse
• People managing the warehouse
• Processes followed at the warehouse
• Compliance
• Control Mechanisms

At HKPS Consulting we offer end-to-end consulting on warehouse management. Our consultants will thoroughly go through the current processes, systems, layout, resourcing, and equipment. We will look at each detail including picking, packing, new product features, dispatch, marshalling, value added services, returns, stock checking, etc. Based on this we will assess the present storage capacity, productivity performance, and throughput capacity of the warehouse and make recommendations.

All our warehouse consultants have operational experience and will work along with your team to make sure deliverable, affordable, and practical improvement plans are created while keeping in mind process improvements, storage media, automation and mechanization.