Maple Automotive.

Operations

Margins.

  • We work with you to bridge the gap between the financial instruments and the operational reality of your business.

    By engraining the right data and fiscal measures into the day to day operations, we enable our partners to manage interdependencies, identify clear cause and effect and build up robust elasticity models to grow the business.

  • We support organisations of all sizes with short term liquidity/working capital initiatives and also mid to long term restructuring.

    Our services cover:

    • Organizational restructuring

    • Debt restructuring

    • Operational change

    • Turnaround management

    • Asset controls

    We often see the best results when we embed our teams as an extension of your management structure. This then allows us to get to the heart of problems, implement robust governance and ensure fast but accurate decision making for the good of the business.

Supply.

  • This area often becomes complex and very manual between OEMs and distributors.

    We think there’s a better way. Our work covers everything from Excel based car flow management tools through to fully automated, predictive models for stock supply, market positioning, price and mix.

    Each partner we work with is different and at varying maturity levels so it isn’t a ‘one box fits all’ in this space.

    We also offer flexible staffing to lead your Planning & Supply function or to enhance your current team.

    This is often valuable when businesses are going through a period of change and are looking for consistency and stability during hiring/transition periods.

  • The automotive landscape is changing fast and so is consumer demand.

    In order to maximise profitability and maintain the best positioning across the portfolio, it is more critical than ever to have real time insights and predictability.

    Our data experts work with you to define scenarios and then build, train and deploy predictive models to facilitate business decision making.

    We often combine these models with RPA (automation) and the right governance/controls to make the operations and decision making even more efficient. Our expertise in data modeling is crucial here.

  • We support both OEMs and Distributors to optimise their shipping, logistics, yard and PDI operations.

    Our focus is always on efficiency. By running proper process mining across the end to end supply chain, we provide you with quantified improvement areas to drive things forwards.

Positioning.

  • Working with our partners, we bring together datasets to facilitate the right decision making and positioning in market.

    Our work and experience with automotive businesses across the UK, Europe and the GCC region mean we are ideally placed and fully understand the dynamics of these markets.

    Whether you need support in bringing data together to inform decisions or you are looking to put in place the rigour and governance to manage your pricing, segmentation, growth plans and market activities effectively, we can support and guide you.

  • Our clients utilise our market insights and intelligence to ensure they remain competitive.

    Our insights cover everything from total market volume forecasts through to detailed market growth modelling.

    We offer a mix of ‘off the shelf’ packages and custom analysis.

  • We help manufacturers, distributors and dealers to win in the market.

    We offer ‘off the shelf’ benchmarking solutions and segment analysis as well as fully custom insights.

    Our team’s also run mystery shop programmes and dealer/distributor performance programmes.

Perform.

  • Our team have decades of experience across the automotive industry operating in roles across OEM, Distributor and Dealer Operations.

    This experience allows us to run effective learning and coaching programmes to drive the business forwards.

    Joining this with our state of the art performance analytics suite ensures all of hte improvement is fully trackable.

  • We create custom training programmes and modules across every aspect of the operation from shipping through to the workshop. and beyond.

    Our suite of digital training apps and solutions and mix of tutor led and self led modules ensures that staff can upskill and improve wherever it is convenient for them. Gamification is also a crucial part in how we get engagement.

  • From gathering and cleansing the data, building up the data model through to deploying the right dashboards, scorecards, league tables and visualizations to engage the teams, we live and breath performance management.

    We don’t just stop at data though. All of our team have worked in the automotive industry so we know what it takes to get traction with front line teams on the ground.

    By identifying the right KPIs and performance measures (SMART), then running workshops with the relevant teams to agree the metrics and the calculation logic, we can ensure the right data structure.

    We then work with front line teams to coach, train, educate and reward the right behaviours.

    Think of us as your ‘always on’ performance management arm.

  • The part most people see and what often causes the most frustration across businesses.

    We often hear ‘our data is messy’ or ‘I can’t find a consistent view of the truth to manage performance’.

    The key to our work is delivering quick business value and cost effective, sustainable reporting and data visualisation that then enables proper performance management and decision making.

    Our services include:

    • Current state review

    • Business requirements

    • Alignment of critical KPIs

    • Alignment of wider KPIs

    • Data clean up/organising

    • Dashboard design

    • Dashboard development

    • Ongoing maintenance

    We often go beyond dashboards and build robust models that allow business stakeholders to run their own simulations and scenarios.