Navigate the Impact of Tariffs on your Supply Chain

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Navigate the Impact of Tariffs on your Supply Chain

Tariffs and global supply chains are more interconnected than ever. Organizations face heightened risks, rising costs, and operational complexity as trade tensions and regulatory shifts continue – especially following US-China tariffs and retaliatory measures.  

How tariffs affect supply chains – and how to stay resilient

The impact of tariffs extends far beyond added import duties. They influence sourcing strategies, supplier relationships, production timelines, logistics networks, and customer pricing models. 

To manage these dynamics effectively, Siemens Advanta’s Supply Chain Tariffs Analytics Solution helps organizations to: 

  • Model real-time scenarios to assess the impact of tariffs on logistics, costs, and supply continuity 
  • Analyze root causes at part level to identify vulnerabilities and evaluate dual sourcing opportunities 
  • Shift perspectives between revenue and spend to better engage customers and suppliers with actionable insights 

 

From disruption to strategy: leveraging supply chain shifts as opportunity

Tariff-related disruptions are no longer isolated events – they’ve become a recurring feature of global trade. To remain competitive, organizations must respond quickly and strategically to changing trade policies and supply chain impacts. This requires a shift from reactive mitigation to active opportunity management

Turning disruption into advantage means understanding where volatility can open doors: for example, by optimizing production footprints, securing more flexible sourcing models, or rethinking logistics strategies with a long-term view. 

 

How Siemens Advanta helps you build resilience and agility

To support organizations in navigating these challenges, Siemens Advanta provides tailored solutions across multiple dimensions of supply chain strategy. Siemens Advanta supports your organization through: 

  • Supply chain optimization: improve efficiency by up to 30% and reduce lead times by 40% through nearshoring, real-time tracking, and automation. 
  • Market diversification: leverage tariff engineering and supplier shifts to reduce expenses by 10–25%. 
  • Innovation and cost reduction: boost productivity by up to 50% and lower compliance costs with AI-powered analytics. 
  • Strategic partnerships: recover up to 99% of duties paid via duty drawback programs and free trade zones. 

 

Strategic tariff mitigation: more than cost savings

Mitigating the effects of tariffs isn't just about protecting margins—it's about building long-term resilience. Siemens Advanta’s approach combines technology, analytics, and industry expertise to: 

  • Identify cost-saving alternatives 
  • Collaborate with key suppliers using proprietary cost insights 
  • Support make-buy decisions and product redesign evaluations 

 

Stay ahead of tariff impacts on your supply chain

In a volatile global trade environment, proactive planning is critical. Siemens Advanta’s innovative solution enables businesses to mitigate risks, enhance supply chain resilience, and drive sustainable growth. 

Contact us today to learn how we can help you adapt to supply chain tariffs and thrive in the face of uncertainty. 

 

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Roy Williams
Consulting Partner Business and Cost Transformation GB&I
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Brittany Ng
Consulting Expert Energy North America
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Discover how Siemens Advanta helps you analyze tariffs, reduce risk, and turn supply chain disruptions into strategic opportunities.

Plant Maturity Assessment

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Factory Maturity Assessment to increase your operational performance

Enroll in a comprehensive factory maturity assessment by filling out our form. This assessment covers key areas such as manufacturing execution & process automation, supply chain, people & culture, and cybersecurity & operations. Gain transparency on your digitalization potentials and receive a tailored roadmap to enhance your performance.

Start your journey towards operational excellence today!

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Cyber Resilience Act | Whitepaper

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Cyber Resilience Act

Strengthen Your Cyber Defenses with the Cyber Resilience Act

At Siemens Advanta, we are dedicated to empowering your organization to navigate the complexities of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) with confidence. Our expertise in integrating cybersecurity measures ensures that you are well-equipped to protect your digital landscape. 

Integrating risk management with advanced cybersecurity measures

The Cyber Resilience Act is a groundbreaking initiative that underscores the importance of cybersecurity and compliance in today’s interconnected world. It closely aligns with established frameworks such as GDPR and NIS2, providing a robust structure for digital product protection

Our whitepaper provides a deep dive into the essential components of the CRA, highlighting the importance of integrating risk management and risk handling practices within your organization. As compliance becomes a top priority, learn how our specialized risk management services can protect your digital assets. 

At Siemens Advanta, we focus on enhancing your cybersecurity and data protection efforts by guiding you towards compliance with the Cyber Resilience Act. By implementing effective risk management and network security measures, we ensure that your products and practices meet the new standards while strengthening your overall cyber resilience strategy. Embrace this opportunity to protect against threats and vulnerabilities and secure your future with our expert risk management services. 

For more information, read our whitepaper on the Cyber Resilience Act.

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Dr. Andreas Aschenbrenner
Global Consulting Partner Cybersecurity
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Enhancing Efficiency with Real-Time Optimization

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Enhancing Efficiency with Real-Time Optimization

HBIS Group Co., Ltd. enhanced compressor and power generation efficiency with a real-time predictive optimization system. By deploying a digital energy management platform, Siemens Advanta addressed challenges like lack of centralized control and inefficient scheduling. This solution reduces system pressure and optimizes performance by predicting air consumption and thermal energy input, leading to significant energy savings.

€51.6B

annual income in 2022.

3rd

largest steel company in the world.

~121K

employees globally.

~2M

tons of steel production output per year.


  • Lack of optimized, centralized control for air compressor systems​
  • Ensuring safety margins for terminal gas usage and reducing energy consumption​
  • Absence of real-time monitoring and inefficient manual scheduling of compressed air supply​
  • Improving management of waste heat from power generation
Client Challenge
  • Researching existing operations and identifying digital solution opportunities​
  • Introducing a digital energy management platform for real-time data collection and analysis​
  • Providing energy-saving solutions in design, modeling, implementation, and tuning
Solution
  • Reducing system pressure and boosting compressor efficiency through the predictions of air consumption and optimizing compressors in real-time​
  • Enhancing significantly power generation efficiency by predicting thermal energy input and optimizing operating parameters
Benefits
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The deployment of a digital energy management optimization system improves operational efficiency and reduces energy consumption in compressors and power generation without altering standard operation and maintenance parameters.

Green Digital Chemical Plant Project - HBIS GROUP Serbia

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Green Digital Chemical Plant Project - HBIS GROUP Serbia

 

The HBIS GROUP Serbia project, in collaboration with Siemens Advanta, aimed to build Europe's leading digital green factory by tackling EU climate regulations, market competition, and modernizing systems for efficiency. Together, we established a digitalization blueprint and an ESG system focused on environmental, social, and governance aspects, achieving strategies for significant energy savings and emission reductions.

€51.6B

annual income in 2022.

3rd

largest steel company in the world.

~121K

employees globally.

~2M

tons of steel production output per year.


  • Complying with EU Climate Regulations and regional market competition​
  • Upgrading equipment and modernizing the energy system to reduce energy consumption​
  • Implementing advanced digital solutions for optimized production and operational management
Client Challenge
  • Defining digitalization goals and blueprints for a green and intelligent factory​
  • Developing an ESG system focusing on environmental protection, employee well-being, and social development​
  • Identifying opportunities to reduce energy consumption​
Solution
  • Created a digital transformation blueprint to drive business development and provided clear direction for transition.​
  • Established an ESG system integrating governance, management processes, and capacity-building measures.​
  • Developed strategies and solutions for energy savings and emission reduction based on priority assessments of efficiency improvement scenarios​
Benefits
Short description
The Co-constructing Green Digital Chemical Plant Project of HBIS GROUP Serbia aims to establish Europe's leading digital green factory by designing a comprehensive ESG system and enhancing energy efficiency, while overcoming challenges of EU regulation compliance and upgrading systems for optimized production through advanced digital solutions.

Cyber Resilience Act

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Cyber Resilience Act

Product Cybersecurity Revolution – “Security by Design”

Siemens Advanta helps its clients comply with the Cyber Resilience Act by integrating Secure-by-Design principle into product development. 

Siemens Advanta makes sure clients are successful in acquiring “CE Marking” and comply with the Cyber Resilience Act by integrating Secure-by-Design principles, tailoring security measures based on product criticality, and conducting risk assessments at every development stage. Siemens Advanta's proactive approach strengthens compliance and boosts its client's customer trust and market competitiveness with its secure and reliable products.  
 


EU Cyber Resilience Act

  • Cyber risk assessment to identify critical risk areas and provide mitigation action items
  • Product Security Program setup with appropriate levels of governance and risk-based security controls
  • Proposal for post market surveillance process and team
What we can do for you
  • Provision of an outside view and cornerstone for optimization of building a secure product
  • Proven approaches to develop and implement Product Security, ensuring cross-border transparency and compliance – with up to 30% less time and effort
  • Reusable blueprints and trainings for further scaling within an organization
Benefits
  • Identify critical products containing digital elements
  • Identify key stakeholders from senior management, business representatives, IT organization, manufacturing operations, and human resources 
Prerequisites
EU Cyber Resilience Act

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Dr. Andreas Aschenbrenner
Dr. Andreas Aschenbrenner
Global Consulting Partner Cybersecurity
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Siemens Advanta helps its clients comply with the Cyber Resilience Act by integrating Secure-by-Design principle into product development.

Mergers & Acquisitions (services)

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Mergers and Acquisitions

M&A can transform your business, but it requires expertise throughout the process, starting in the pre-deal phase, continuing in the transaction phase, and through post-merger integration (PMI). M&A activities are often driven by a desire to increase market share, expand product lines, or gain access to new markets. Successful M&A transactions require careful planning, due diligence, and effective execution to achieve desired outcomes and create value for stakeholders - something we have proven time and again at Siemens Advanta. 

  • Identify the appropriate M&A prospect 
  • Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of a possible acquisition 
  • Develop the integration plan, discover potential synergies, and guarantee preparedness from Day 1 
What we can do for you
  • Achieve faster growth 
  • Facilitate the transfer of technology 
  • Accomplish diversification 
  • Attain positive synergy 
  • Increase market power 
Benefits

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Please reach out to Dr. Dennis Warnecke for more information.
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Dr. Dennis Warnecke
Global Consulting Head Energy
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We unlock growth for your business with the Siemens Advanta proven merger & acquisition expertise and have supported many clients and accelerate success.

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Shaping the future through sustainable innovation and operationalization

Sustainability is quintessential for our society, economy, and everyday life. Fighting climate change, protecting biodiversity, and transitioning to a circular economy are just a few examples of areas where society at large, customers, investors, and regulators are setting new standards for companies. At the same time, these areas also present firms with tremendous business opportunities. Those that champion sustainable innovation can leverage their technological advantage as a unique selling proposition. 

Our mission is to help businesses become sustainability champions by setting the right targets, defining a successful strategy and transformation approach, and smooth operationalization, supported by data-driven insight generation. 

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Cost & Value Engineering

Providing detailed analysis to identify the optimal approach to source, manufacture and design-in innovation and sustainability while reducing cost. 

Decarbonization Roadmap and Company / Product Carbon Footprint

We baseline emissions along our clients’ entire value chains, set meaningful carbon neutrality targets and define concrete measures to reduce their carbon footprint. 

ESG Strategy and Governance

We support businesses in anchoring sustainability at the core of their strategy and operations and derive an effective roadmap of measures as well as an appropriate governance model. 

Hydrogen and Renewable Energy Transition

We identify your businesses’ opportunities to replace conventional power and energy sources with hydrogen and renewables and derive a roadmap with concrete measures. 

Scope 3 and Sustainable Supply Chain Optimization

We bring businesses on the path to success regarding transparency in the supply chain, leveraging digital solutions to increase efficiency and optimizing routes to improve stability and resilience. 

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As the energy demand for e-car charging is already increasing significantly and will be one of the major energy consumers within a city’s infrastructure in the future, Siemens Advanta supported ASCR to find a solution on how they can model the energy demand of electrical vehicles and their impact on the electricity grid using a Digital Twin...

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The automotive industry at the forefront of circularity – a digital transformation

Digital product passports are a core element in the circular economy strategy of the European Union Green Deal. In the upcoming years, we will see an increasing number of products to be accompanied with digital collections of their individual specifications and characteristics. With this, the EU aims to improve transparency for consumer decisions and all players along the value chain, to promote sustainable products and enable new circular business models.

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Global Consulting Head Sustainability Business
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Head Solution Engineering & Delivery EMEA
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Solution Partner Sustainability North America
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We shape the future through sustainable innovation and operationalization.

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Advanced Analytics, AI and Cybersecurity

We have all the ingredients to successfully leverage Advanced Analytics, AI and Cybersecurity in the industrial space. 

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Siemens Advanta excels in digital transformation services, focusing on AI adoption and cyber risk mitigation. Our analytics expertise helps clients devise data strategies, identify opportunities, and deploy AI-powered services. We specialize in vulnerability management, risk assessment, and cybersecurity, offering customized solutions for IT and OT environments. With our comprehensive approach, incorporating technology and security measures, we position organizations for innovation. Optimize your digital journey with our industry-leading AI and cybersecurity services.

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We conduct tailored cybersecurity risk assessments to ensure sustainable investments in IT and OT infrastructure and technology. 

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We accelerate our clients in their AI-first operating model from strategy definition to end-to-end implementation and scaling of business value across the organization. 

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We combine strategic consulting on setting up a dedicated program and organization with deep technical expertise to develop and implement tailored cybersecurity strategies.

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We helped our client develop AI and advanced analytics competencies. In competitive industries, businesses must deliver value quickly and efficiently. Our client aimed to enhance their analytics capabilities for better business functions and customer solutions...

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Effective IT asset management is essential for ensuring cybersecurity. Unfortunately, due to lack of data integration, IT asset management is often an inefficient manual process. Therefore, it is crucial to make IT asset data easily accessible and usable. To achieve this, a tailored data model can be employed to connect data sources and ensure real-time analytical readiness...

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Ulli Waltinger is the Vice President for Artificial Intelligence & IoT at Siemens Advanta and a Fellow of the Siemens AI Lab. He advances AI and IoT technologies, promotes interdisciplinary research, and has led key AI initiatives, including founding the Siemens AI Lab in Munich. He has over 40 publications and more than 100 talks.
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Global Consulting Partner Artificial Intelligence
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Solution Partner Digital & Data Transformation Practice EMEA
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Our analytics expertise help clients devise data strategies, identify opportunities, and deploy AI-powered solutions.
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