Strategy and Digital Transformation

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Strategy & Digital Transformation

Siemens Advanta approaches digital transformation in a customer-centric way to accompany our clients on their digital journey to sustainable success.

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Comprehensive digital transformation solutions for sustainable success

Digitalization has revolutionized how businesses operate, resulting in dynamic markets, evolving technologies, and shifting trends. As companies navigate increasing complexity and uncertainty, meeting changing customer expectations is crucial for success. At Siemens Advanta, we enable businesses to unlock their full potential by embracing digital transformation while always keeping the customer in focus. Leveraging our vast expertise, we deliver tangible results for our clients in record time, covering every aspect of their digital transformation journey. Together, we pave the way for win-win solutions and superior customer experiences.

Explore our tailored portfolio to support your business needs

Business Strategy

We provide significant impact with business strategies to help you create and sustain a competitive advantage.

Change Management

We catalyze your project to anchor aimed transformation in organizations 

Customer Interaction Strategy 

Developing a customer interaction strategy is the key to achieving unique and differentiating customer experiences across all channels and touchpoints.  

Customer-centric Transformation and Strategy 

For a customer-centric approach, it is essential to redefine the business model and adopt a concise transformation strategy. 

Digital Solution and Service Portfolio Innovation 

Our co-creation approach boosts service portfolio innovation and the development of digital solutions.  

Ecosystem and Business Model Design 

Ecosystem-based business models disrupt and outperform traditional business​es.  

Fast-track Innovation with Design Sprints 

Structured design thinking approach for innovating new solutions.  

Innovation Center Design 

Establishing an innovation center that delivers on its expectations. 

Go-To-Market (G2M) Strategy 

Accessing relevant markets in a customer-focused way.  

Mergers & Acquisitions

We unlock growth for your business with the Siemens Advanta proven merger & acquisition expertise and have supported many clients and accelerate success! 

NextWork

We up- and reskill your workforce to tackle structural change.

Non-Conformance Cost & Risk Management

We reduce your non-conformance costs, which is crucial for your businesses looking to remain competitive in today's market. Our risk management helps to meet your forecast, manage the unexpected events, and safeguard against reputational damage. 

Organizational Performance Enhancements

We enhance your organizational performance to unlock the full potential of your business.

Smart Factory Intralogistics

Siemens Advanta has developed a tried-and-tested, standardized procedure for clients in different industries, in which processes are optimized with the help of the digital twin in the intralogistics sector.

Supplier Analytics

Vendigital as part of the Siemens Advanta organization, drives accelerated cost and supply chain performance transformation through data.

Target Operating Model Design and Transformation

Enabling the customer-centric strategy with a clear target operating model.  

Teamcenter on Azure Assessment Workshop

Siemens Advanta´s Teamcenter on Azure Assessment Workshop is a specialized offering designed to provide a comprehensive review of your Teamcenter environment.

Organizational Transformation Management

Siemens Advanta helps with your transformation by defining goals, setting up governance, and supporting execution for sustainable change.

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Strategy & Digital Transformation case studies

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Customer value co-creation for digital workflow optimization

Our client had to optimize their field service and increase efficiency of installed assets. Using Customer Value Co-Creation, we concretized their user journey and business model for digital workflow optimization...

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Process Offshoring & Automation (POA)

We helped a Siemens division to achieve 220' savings with Process Offshoring/Outsourcing and Automation (POA)...

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Our industry leaders

Get in touch with our experts to discuss how we can work together to solve your challenges.
Dr. Sven Scheuble
Dr. Sven Scheuble
Global Consulting Partner Strategy & Digital Transformation
Christian Werner
Christian Werner
Head Solution Engineering & Delivery EMEA
Shawn Desai
Shawn Desai
Solution Partner Digital Transformation North America
Short description
Driving business value and superior customer experiences through digitalization strategies.

IT/OT Cybersecurity

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IT/OT Cybersecurity

Increasing cybersecurity maturity across OT & IT

Siemens Advanta supports its clients with end-to-end cybersecurity solutions that bridge the gap between security trends and emerging technologies.

Siemens Advanta supports its clients in increasing their cybersecurity capabilities by helping them identify gaps through industry-standard-based assessments, setting a multi-year target for the future, and operationalizing that roadmap into targeted solution workstreams.

Siemens Advanta helps its clients build and define governance-driven cybersecurity organizations lead through a program and transformation management office to drive all relevant areas of OT cybersecurity.

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  • Evaluate current OT cybersecurity posture on the program or site level using industry standards
  • Developing a strategic multi-year security roadmap to increase maturity and reduce cybersecurity risks
  • Building the requisite governance structures to define security intents and requirements
  • Building transformation programs with actionable outcomes for an improved cybersecurity posture
What we can do for you
  • Reduction in risks associated with cybersecurity
  • Increased cybersecurity maturity against industry frameworks
  • Programmatic and proven approach to jointly develop and implement with OT and IT teams
  • End-to-end capabilities of Siemens including from consulting assessments to solution implementation, as well as hardware, software, and services tailored to improve OT cybersecurity
Benefits
  • Culture of risk mitigation and proactive solution development
  • Collaborative nature between IT and OT teams
  • Understanding of the difference in viewpoints between IT and OT security
Prerequisites

Related case studies

Cybersecurity Risks and Prevention Strategies for Brewery Operations

Cybersecurity is crucial in today's digital era, as it protects sensitive information from unauthorized access, theft, and damage. With the increasing reliance on technology, the threat of cyber-attacks...

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IT Security Certification for Automation Products and Solutions

Once the domain of production environments, industrial automation and control systems (IACS) are now ubiquitous in critical infrastructure, such as water and wastewater systems, power supply, transport and logistics, and food supply...

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Our industry leader

Please reach out to our experts for more information.
Georg Schoener
Georg Schoener
Consulting Partner OT Cybersecurity North America
Dr. Andreas Aschenbrenner
Dr. Andreas Aschenbrenner
Global Consulting Partner Cybersecurity
Short description
We combine strategic consulting on setting up a dedicated program and organization with deep technical expertise to develop and implement tailored cybersecurity strategies.

Driving digital transformation and open innovation with a strong ecosystem

Aymeric Sarrazin & Peter Körte

Tune in to uncover what the world of open innovation ecosystem holds for the future. 

How can cross-collaboration and open ideation help deal with industrial uncertainties? Get your answers from Aymeric Sarrazin and Peter Körte.

 

Find us also on your favorite Podcast APP:
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Digital Twin & Industrial Metaverse

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Digital Twin and Industrial Metaverse

A real-time, immersive Industrial Metaverse connects hardware and software from the edge to the cloud, leveraging the power of AI-enabled, photorealistic, physics-based digital twins to drive efficiency and transform industries, taking industrial automation to a new level. It also changes how we collaborate within organizations, ecosystems, and between firms, their clients, and customers. 

We help clients create short and long-term value by combining technology and industry expertise to assess business opportunities, develop transformational strategies, and design, build, and operate metaverse solutions. Our solutions cover marketplace development, blockchain integration, extended reality, digital twins, security protocols, and ecosystems. 

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  • Assessment of business opportunities 
  • Development of transformational strategies 
  • Design, build, and operation of metaverse solutions 
What we can do for you
  • Advances in technology can create new opportunities for businesses and enable new forms of communication and collaboration 
  • Blockchain technology has numerous potential applications that can be optimized through collaborative and immersive virtual environment 
  • Digital versions have proven to be effective alternatives for marketing, sales, and training 
  • A digital twin enables virtual modeling of the entire product lifecycle 

 

Benefits

Our industry leaders

Please reach out to our experts for more information.
Henrik Sonnenburg
Henrik Sonnenburg
Global Consulting Head Factory & Supply Chain Transformation
Martin Schönfelder
Martin Schönfelder
Global Consulting Expert Factory & Supply Chain Transformation
Marcus Bluhm
Marcus Bluhm
Solution Head Industries EMEA
Short description
We offer metaverse solutions and expertise in various areas to drive client transformation and value creation.

Battery Manufacturing Assessment

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Battery Manufacturing Assessment

Handling data across the EV battery life cycle

With global mandates, regulations and ambitions being set to decarbonise industries, focus and investment is moving towards advancing manufacturing and processing capabilities in the renewable energy and battery technology space.

While R&D in the EV space increases and organisations determine the type of alternative fuel cells or battery chemistries that can optimise their vehicle performances, whether in the consumer or commercial markets, there is also an acceleration in progress as they seek to secure further investment to plan manufacturing or gigafactory facilities and optimise supply chains.

As the EV market continues to grow, manufacturers are looking for ways to provide a cost effective and sustainable solution from cradle to grave that will secure and retain their footing in this new market.

We’ve developed the battery manufacturing assessment to help clients fully understand the capital and operational cost breakdown, and carbon intensity, of battery manufacturing across different cell types, chemistries and scale.

Our battery manufacturing assessment also helps our clients make informed strategic decisions about how to optimise their investments and make business-critical make vs buy decisions.

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Our approach

Having a clear view from the client on their ambitions for the battery cell type, chemistries and specifications they want to manufacture as well as operational data is key to build a solid foundation of cost base at a BoM level. This sets the baseline across all known and certain costs.

Developing the baseline

Using our manufacturing expertise we build in manufacturing process and equipment costs with an added carbon intensity lens that starts giving shape to the capital investment required to set up manufacturing cells. Our application of macroeconomic data allows us to look at both manufacturing locations of raw materials or semi-finished goods that will make part of the full BoM.

Understanding the manufacturing processes

We understand that battery technology is still new in the market, and there are some costs that will be unpredictable or even volatile, using our commercial cost modelling expertise and live data feeds, we are able to provide a degree of accuracy in our model at a granular level that can be used and tested in the market as part of the client’s make vs buy decision making process. Based on the client and macro data available, our model will be bespoke and our assumptions will be tested in collaboration with our client.

Testing the assumptions and bespoke components

Once the model has undergone ergonomics and functionality testing using a set of example cases, the model is ready to be launched for use by the client’s functions, such as Procurement and Cost Engineering, to test the marketplace.

Launching the model
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The benefits of best practice

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Provides commercial manufacturing transparency

By having a breakdown across operational and capital costs, organisations are able to determine the total impact of battery manufacturing on their business. This can shape discussions at board level on the potential level of investment and capability required to establish operations across new and emerging technologies in a more tangible way.

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Informed decision-making for make vs buy

The outputs of the tool can be leveraged to test the market at varying stages of the BoM, enabling clients to make better make vs buy decisions that will give them access to the right capabilities and manufacturing technology, and ultimately secure speed to market in a commercially optimal manner.

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Offers a vision for scalability

A drive for sustainability globally creates complex challenges for the supply chain, from raw material access to competition for capital equipment and labour. Our battery manufacturing assessment helps clients scale up cell manufacturing in a sustainable and maintainable way to meet production demand and grow the bottom line across a new and developing portfolio of technologies.

Battery related case studies

Proof-of-Concept for a Battery Passport

Mobility is going electric. That is good news for the environment, because it is a step further toward decarbonization. But if e-mobility is really to be sustainable, automobile companies need to take a good look at electric vehicle batteries...

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Improving Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) for battery factory output and profit margin increase

With our OEE (Overall Equipment Efficiency) approach, we create transparency about the current machine availability and identify improvement levers to reduce quality, performance, and availability losses...

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Our industry leaders

Please reach out to our experts for more information.
Johannes Eichenseer
Johannes Eichenseer
Global Consulting Partner Factory & Supply Chain Transformation
Christian Phildius
Christian Phildius
Solution Partner Battery Manufacturing EMEA

Modularization in the digital age

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Modularization in the Digital Age

Efficiency through holistic product architectures

The digitization of the world is steadily advancing. With our holistic modularization approach, we ensure that the architecture and modules of your products align with the market in the best possible way, both in terms of hardware and software. This enables our customers to position their products faster and more efficiently on the market and increase their fit-to-market. 

 

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  • Analysis of the product-market fit to identify the target audience and their needs 
  • Modularization readiness check to assess the potential benefits and risks of the modularization process 
  • Holistic modularization strategy, design, and implementation to optimize the product architecture and modules 
What we can do for you
  • Faster time-to-market 
  • Higher flexibility in the product portfolio 
  • Optimize cost structures 
  • Increase customer satisfaction with a better product-market fit 
  • Improve product quality and reliability 

 

Benefits
  • A product portfolio with mechatronic products 
  • A clear understanding of the market demand and target audience 
  • Access to product design and engineering data 
Prerequisities

Our industry leaders

Please reach out to our experts for more information.
Markus Forthaus
Markus Forthaus
Global Consulting Partner R&D Transformation
Dr. Marc Windheim
Dr. Marc Windheim
Global Consulting Expert R&D Transformation
Short description
For competitive products in the digital age, holistic design integration of hardware and software is crucial.

End-of-Life/Recycling-Management

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End-of-Life/Recycling-Management

A multitude of external factors, such as increasing commodity prices, stricter regulatory requirements, and material shortages due to geopolitical conflicts (decoupling), turn the sustainable handling of products towards the end of their life cycle into a decisive competitive factor. Derived from practical expertise, our consulting offering helps efficiently secure your supply and market access by closing the circular loop.

 

  • Developing effective and profitable end-of-life programs to support growth and sustainability 
  • Ensuring long-term access to competitively priced strategic secondary materials 
  • Creating partnerships and ecosystems to enable circular models 
What we can do for you
  • Leverage R-strategies (e.g., reuse, reman, recycle) to preserve components and materials in a closed loop 
  • Reduce your carbon footprint through increased use of recycled materials 
  • Increase resilience of your supply chain through reduced dependency on primary resources 
  • Grow revenue through new circular business models (e.g., as-a-service, repair, remanufacture) 
  • Improve brand reputation and customer loyalty through sustainable practices 

 

Benefits

Our industry leaders

Please reach out to our experts for more information.
Christian Neumann
Christian Neumann
Global Consulting Expert Circular Economy
Johannes Schreyer
Johannes Schreyer
Global Consulting Expert R&D Transformation
Short description
Commodity price rise, regulations, and supply shortages make recycling management essential for resilient companies.

Circular Economy

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Circular Economy

A growing concern for sustainability, combined with raw material scarcity, necessitates closing the loop and developing new circular solutions. Our consulting services can assist your business in navigating this transformation. With decades of expertise in sustainability, product lifecycle management, and product architecture design, we can support you in implementing solutions that not only benefit the environment but also increase profitability and stakeholder value. Contact us today to find out how we can help your business become a leader in circularity. 

 

  • Definition of appropriate R-Strategies for designing products, components, and services 
  • Regulatory check and maturity assessment 
  • Product (architecture) design strategy 
What we can do for you
  • Determine R-strategies for your specific situation - as each product and service requires a tailored approach 
  • Develop a best-fit modular architecture to reflect circular requirements 
  • Provide your engineers with guardrails to develop more sustainable products and services 
  • Use best-in-class technology to increase your sustainability 
  • Gain a competitive advantage by being at the forefront of complying with upcoming regulations 

 

Benefits

Our industry leaders

Please reach out to our experts for more information.
Markus Forthaus
Markus Forthaus
Global Consulting Partner R&D Transformation
Christian Neumann
Christian Neumann
Global Consulting Expert Circular Economy
Dr. Philipp Lill
Dr. Philipp Lill
Global Consulting Expert R&D Transformation
Short description
With a growing concern for sustainability and an increase in resource demand, coupled with limited availability and shrinking CO2 budgets, the time to act more sustainably and shift towards a circular future is now.

Future Product Development

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Future Product Development

Our service improves complexity management, time to market, and the development of software-intensive products. To achieve this, we use advanced processes, methodologies, and cross-industry expertise coupled with a human-centered approach to enable your business to efficiently create products that meet and exceed your customers' needs. 

 

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  • Systems Engineering Methodologies 
  • Integration of state-of-the-art methods (e.g., advanced rapid prototyping and virtualization) 
  • R&D assessments for product, organizational, and digital capabilities 
What we can do for you
  • Reduce time to market and gain a competitive edge 
  • Improve customer satisfaction and increase product innovation  
  • Minimize development costs and resources 
  • Master system complexity 
  • Rapid organizational adoption/change 

 

Benefits
  • Embrace new technologies and methodologies
  • Commitment to developing software-centric products
  • Strategic ambitions for the future portfolio 
Prerequisites

Our industry leader

Please reach out to Adam Aniol for more information.
Adam Aniol
Adam Aniol
Global Consulting Expert R&D Transformation
Short description
We support the digital transformation of your R&D processes and organization to empower you to secure a sustainable competitive advantage in rapidly evolving product landscapes.

Circularity Program Setup

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Circularity Program Setup

Difficulties in sourcing strategic materials, supply chain disruptions, increasing CO2 emissions, and new regulatory requirements are accelerating the adoption of the circular economy. However, the circularity ecosystem (e.g., regulations, standards, collaborative initiatives) can be overwhelming and a real challenge for industrial players. Siemens Advanta supports businesses in creating a common circularity view, identifying key impact categories, building integrated ecosystems along value chains, and navigating the road to circularity. 

  • Define a strategy to anchor circularity in companies' daily business, e.g., by designing more reusable/recyclable products 
  • Increase supply chain resilience, e.g., by securing access to strategic materials 
  • Gain transparency on upcoming regulations and prepare for them, e.g., the Circular Economy Action Plan of the EU 
  • Leverage ecosystems along the value chain and enable data sharing to truly close the material loop, e.g., via digital product passports
  • Develop new business models by closing the loop, e.g., with as-a-service business models
Benefits

Our industry leader

Please reach out to Christian Neumann for more information.
Christian Neumann
Christian Neumann
Global Consulting Head Sustainability Business
Short description
We support businesses in leveraging ecosystems to drive circular economy across the entire value chain, learn from partners and open new business opportunities.
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