Lines of Business
Complete adaptation to clients needs. Global act in many sectors.
ABS Management Consulting has a deep knowledge of multiple markets and great adaptation capability to customers’ activities. With over thirty years experience in 1,200 companies, ABS’ Management Methodology is designed to adapt to a wide variety of business areas.
Select a sector beside and see the description below:
Agro-industrial
Interference from climate and macro factors influences are huge in this sector. Management processes for forests; factory/plant; fruits; legumes and vegetables; seeds; grains; and animal are very specific, but all of them follow the same course: using resources, creation and waste transformation, identifying process offenders in preparation, fruition, and due date cycles in the creation, production, preparation, and commercialization value chain. Learn with ABS how to generate better results.
Ceramics & Refractory
Among the details in this sector, we find in production, waste decrease through temperature and pigmentation variations, in addition to food line velocity with time correction, resulting in a very significant potential.
The commercial area is exploited and very disputed, which suggests a comparison war. The secret is in the attention:
to the end user. Learn with ABS how to generate better results.
Chemical Industry
Among the different specialties – pharmaceutical, pigmentation, fertilizers, among others – we can say the process demands maintaining speed and quality, in addition to a low index of interruption to have the best balance of resources and costs with maximum earning power. On the other hand, the commercial vision and supply chain have such an exemplar, rigorous and productive business-to-business management specificity that it opens a an almost restrict space of business. This reinforces the need of a partner like ABS and its methodology. There are limited percentage earnings that will render absolute expressive values. Learn about our cases, ask for our presentation.
Civil & Structural Construction
This sector is probably one of the most difficult to generate results by depending on external, metrological, and specialty activities through third-party contracts. Project management runs into difficulty in developing parameters for better budgets. Another important point is the mechanics is appointing leadership in the field. The balance between being sufficiently bureaucratic and analytical in order to have essential good management in what is referred to as frequency and metrics is our greatest experience/asset. Add to this sector, the concern with post-delivery and maintenance. Consult our advice.
Electric & Electronics
A world of opportunities. Here we work with mature processes where the difficulty is in breaking already very high levels of excellence. This challenge is more evident for ABS, since we do the more difficult part. Processes for purchasing, programming, production, maintenance, expedition, storage, and distribution are dealt with horizontally and interdependently. This vision of balance and productivity allows earnings in less production-cycle time and speed; a combination that creates space for incredible opportunities.
When we move to the commercial area, we find repositioning and opening of points of sales without letting a geographic coverage of the company escape. The sum of these aspects leaves a margin of millions in results for our clients. Ask us for more details.
Extraction & Treatment Industry
The essence of this sector is in the strategic definition of operation. With the management and trade, the need for interaction among the levels, areas, and their respective efficiencies for the center of the business’s revenue appears. In the end, integrated corporate management is the best port of entrance for creating a base for strategic measuring and definition. Consult us.
Food & Beverages
There are many differences among food and beverage processes. In ABS’s vision, what they have in common is the need to make adjustments in the cycle between production and commercialization, and the specifications from clients and consumers. Production quality and the level of commercial service are the determining factors for end-line result. Taking into account problems seen in apparent deviation indicators give a correct vision of performance opportunities. Learn with ABS how to generate better results.
Glass & Crystal
Among the phases of composition, fusion, bath, annealing and cutting, the direct productivity process happens. The ABS evaluation in this sector is to generate greater availability of machines with the best balance of coast x efficiency x efficacy. The higher is the speed, the greater is the interference in product quality.
Being a continuous line, companies in this sector need to keep an impeccable maintenance management. Learn how ABS can help. See one of our executives.
Iron & Steel Industry (Siderurgy & Transformation)
The entire value chain in this sector is very significant to its costs. Starting with mineral extraction, the mineral benefit demands an exercise in balancing labor accompanied by an increase in availability. The reduction and the steel mill process leave room for preventative maintenance improvement and generate an increase in availability. The lamination that practically ends the production operation gets special attention. They are stable processes and improvements are difficult to get. In metallurgical transformation, the treatment consists of a large combination of a range of tools that can generate thousands of products with the same machinery in different applications. The management of the necessary intervening actions and activities like tool calibration, varying production rhythm, commercial synchronism, and balanced stock are fundamentals for profits. Any falling out of alignment in this relationship opens the margin for significant improvements and causes an impact on the formation relationship of transformation cost blocking competitiveness. We have a lot of experience in this sector, learn about the benefits of ABS management methodology.
Machinery & Equipment
The key to this sector is anchored in engineering. The consequence and anticipation of the project are pillars of efficient undertaking.
Anticipate activities and provide resources is the order of the most varied projects structured to meet customer specifications.
Maintenance support and offering services make the difference in mark-up appropriation. The commercial area works according to two complementary points: the sector exploration and the attention to the project. For this reason, integrated corporate management is, without a doubt, a formidable managerial platform. And the ABS methodology is the option for organizing the business and promoting better profit.
Outsourcing Services
The focus of this industry is securely the way in which the end customer’s percepmaintainers. tion influences the value chain linked to the best service costs. In this sector, there are hospitals, restaurants, and Laundromats, including As a service provider includes works as an essence, the appropriateness of the management system is in the people’s work and process credibility. The secret is in the balance of user satisfaction within the cost limit of who pays and under the best judgement of who influences it. ABS can help. Contact us.
Paper & Pulp
Our product for companies in this sector has a wide scope: It goes from the forest process to finished product sales.
There are important factors in strategy as well as performance to contribute to the companies development. These factors include human development, especially in planting and harvesting. The assessment of this sector, in ABS’s vision is to generate greater availability of machines and equipment with the best maintenance cost X efficiency X effectiveness balance. By being a continuous line of added high value, many sector companies contract out maintenance management. There are many opportunities. All together, they reveal a significant reduction rate in cost per produced ton. Let us show present our past experiences, consult ABS.
Polymers & Derivatives
What is relevant in this sector is the logic of the occupation in the productive phases. From the raw material that includes selections of suppliers, their delivery deadlines, among other activities, up to the need for an impeccable program giving origin to the mixing and composition process, transformation, assembly and/or finishing, and the management of finished product in stock and waste. With the vision of increasing volume with profitability, dealing with each channel with its particular structural and organic detail allows for earnings. Review of these subjects generate great results. With the ABS Methodology, they are multiplied.
Textile & Apparel Industry
Within the competitive world of this sector, there is a rule of survival: Reduce costs. This need includes two huge priorities: Production opportunities of gap saturation at first glance, leaving room for process refinement of support and its integration with production; establishing a commercial efficiency that is less concentrated in large purchases of low added value and with greater service of added value. Learn about us, requesting a presentation of the ABS Methodology.
Transport
The areas of expertise are: airway, load and passenger highway, rail and water. Our focus is to consider what is load or passenger, with the guiding factor being to use commercial efficiency as well as operational efficiency according slots of space that directly translate to business profitability. Remembering that time is a finite, non-renewable resource, making the best lucrative combination of space and time in the transport sector is our specialty. Ask about our experience and confirm it is always possible to improve. Set a date for an ABS presentation on our methodology.
Utilities
Electric energy, gas, sanitation and water, landline and mobile communication, and data are utilities that have a common service process for customers under the perspective of the demand.
In this scenario, generation, distribution, maintenance, and commercialization are required where an interruption negatively affects billing, increase in costs, contractual fines, legislative penalties, and a negative impact on the image and brand, with the possibility of leading to the loss of a concession. ABS Methodology interacts in these layers of impact, decreasing and eliminating these negative effects essentially under the principles of insourcing services and contract management. Consult us.
Wholesale & Retail
Analyzing this sector value chain, which includes purchasing, warehousing, distribution, replenishment and sales, ABS ensures a management of waste and opportunities with a focus on a vision of collapse. That is because the chances of loss are many and the breaks show the need of opportunities management. In all specialties that comprise this industry – bakery, pharmacy, food, drinks, among others – the sum of opportunities to reduce waste can represent millions as a result, in addition to benefits in quality of care. Learn with us how to reach different opportunity.
Wood & Furniture
To generate stability in a natural raw material is to have more of a perfect plan. When we add to this need, the best use of the extracted surface, the focus of management will be able to be adjusted on the premises of high production performance, its best usage, and the reduction in wasted time and resources. When the view is commercial, the challenge stops being the price and becomes the horizontal coverage like priority and line opening as complementary. Based on the sector’s process cycle being high, the integration of chain must include strict control of deadlines, and this only increases the challenge. Learn more on how to earn more from your business using the ABS methodology.
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Third-Party Contract Management
Much more than transferring responsibilities, acquiring skills and assuring quality.
It is common in an outsourced process to transfer the management of the business to the contracted party. In the operational plan, defined that the process is likely to be outsourced, it must be clear that management of the quality of outsources services is a nontransferable responsibility due to the risk of loss of quality and cost deviation.
Metodologia ABS® uses a model of contract management that assures the benefits form third-party processes without losing control of the process.
Supply Chain Management
Maximizing collaboration among partners
From acquisition planning of the necessary material and services to the operation, end service to demand for products or services related to the core business, all the supply chain processes are analyzed by this solution that is capable of meeting any business segment.
The solution explores internal / external (supplier/ customer) synergy, promoting the integration of the organization’s areas and generating a strategic, tactical and operational action map.
This offer is capable of meeting any segment in the industry and look to generate a strategic, tactical and operational map of actions, giving priority in function of the associated x implementation complexity benefit.
Work Safety and Health Management
Social Responsibility and Regulation Appropriateness.
The implementation of the Work Safety and Health Management System must be structured and adapted to the organization’s type of specific activity, such that it eliminates or minimizes the risks to employees. It is made up of a set of activities, systematically implemented and supported by the unequivocal definition of responsibilities and skills for all employees that control, execute and verify the activities. The Work Safety and Health Management has the basic premise of prevention instead of detecting problems. For this, it is fundamental that it is understood, implemented and sustained.
Strategy
Your thinking today for your company’s tomorrow.
ABS understands that every consolidated company, during growth or at an adverse moment, needs to rethink its positioning and way of doing business.
With its unique approach, ABS Consultoria helps companies to make the best decisions, conciliating the different areas involved (like customers, shareholders, employees) with the best market practices.
Strategic Planning
Defining the sustainability bases.
No matter what the corporation’s stage is, at a certain time it is necessary to define and/or adjust its foundational pillars, defining or re-orienting its identity (Mission, Vision, and Value), its marketing position strategy as well as the management organizational model profile, fundamental in the systemizing strategic actions.
ABS has a lot of experience, not only in the architecture of the entire Strategic Plan, but also in its implementation, consolidation, and sustaining.
Organizational Restructuring
Addressing New Scenarios.
Strategic redefinition, marketing pressures, process revision, mergers or acquisitions are large leveraging factors leading to the need for updating organizational structure. Being correctly organized is fundamental. However, carrying out a reorganizational process must consider the most useful rationalization of the structure and its responsibilities.
Throughout our vast experience, we have helped innumerous companies in their organizational restructuring process. Not being limited to just a hierarchical and functional vision, but also a managerial vision aligned with the corporation’s strategic premises.
Definition of Outsourcing Strategies
Defining guidelines for the success of an outsourcing process.
In addition to a clear vision of what the possible processes for outsourcing are, the result will depend on a series of factors (Clear Policies and Guidelines, Model for Adequate Remuneration for the Process Typology, Supplier Selection by Typology, Contracting Structure and Clear Identification of Metrics for Accompanying Performance).
Management of Economic, Financial and Asset Performance
Complete Solution for Shareholders and Administrators.
With this solution, ABS helps our customers to structure the company’s financial information system, with the objective of creating a financial economic and assets plan which will serve as a basis for top management in company strategic plan conduct;
For the purpose of on-the-spot management, internationally recognized indicators will be implemented for economic, financial and asset performance, using a SCORE methodology. The development of indicators will be structured within budget planning standards or market standards, in which the company does its business.
Analysis of the indicators will show the company’s top level of administration the degree of effectiveness in the application of resources obtained, within the defined strategic objectives.
Integrated Corporate Management
Materializing and Measuring the Strategic Definitions
A strategic vision will only be able to materialize if correctly broken down into the different perspectives of the business (finance, customers, processes and people) using information that allows the alignment of the entire structure with the creation of value.
Performance
An effective response for each of the company’s process phase.
The prosperity of any business constantly questions the profitability and excellence of the management processes.
ABS is a specialist in the implementation of solutions that improve performance. With experience in the most diverse segments comprising a complete set of solutions.
Operational Profitability Management
Operational Profitability Management
The essence of Metodologia ABS® is centered on the identification of causes that hurt the PERFORMANCE of the processes, and the ACTIVE ACTIONS OF THE LEADERS so that problems are dealt with at the right TIME, at the right FREQUENCY, in the effective MANNER, and with the objective of avoiding the RECURRENCE.
As such, ABS has a unique approach in the market supported by uniting a management model able to support a structured planning process, well defined control points and indicators that clearly reflect the operation such that managers can assertively define the line of intervention (Review of Metrics, Processes, Qualification of Resources) a training set and on-the-job training that allow the assimilation of concepts.
ABS is not limited to recommending better practices, it commits itself to the implementation and results.
Commercial Performance Management
Complete Market Vision
More than selling more, a complete market vision allows corporations to have a clear potential of potential. With Metodologia ABS®, a corporation will be able to have a clear and objective vision of the degree of knowledge of the market, the level of known market penetration, rated of known market penetration with levels of breakdown that allow customer x product assessment.
As such, ABS has a unique approach in the market supported by uniting a management model able to support a structured planning process, a structured commercial approach, well defined control points and indicators that clearly reflect the commercial performance. Allied with this process, ABS will minister to a series of behavioral training and selling techniques.
ABS is not limited to recommending better practices, it commits itself to the implementation and results.
Integrated Management of Projects
Addressing costs, deadlines and quality of assured projects
The best definition of a project is “a temporary effort undertaken to create a unique product or service.” Metodologia ABS® follows the PMBOK principles and includes the full life cycle of a project. Different from a laboratorial approach, ABS preaches the implementation in-loco, involving all levels of existing leadership on a project. Allied to this process, a series of project management tool formations are applied, like the MS-Project® among others.
Modeling and Integrated processes
Optimizing Process Flow and Control
Whether by adopting a new tool in information technology (ERP), acquisition of processes, or mergers, the optimization and management of processes allows organizations to reach the desired business results: profit, customer satisfaction, cost optimization, among others.
Process optimization and management have the following stages: process mapping, modeling, defining maturity level, documentation, communication plan, automation, monitoring using performance indicators, and the continuous improvement cycle. The objective is the continuous improvement of processes to attain desired results.
These applied practices help maximize results and performance of processes, aligning business processes with the strategy.
Third-Party Contract Management
Much more than transferring responsibilities, acquiring skills and assuring quality.
It is common in an outsourced process to transfer the management of the business to the contracted party. In the operational plan, defined that the process is likely to be outsourced, it must be clear that management of the quality of outsources services is a nontransferable responsibility due to the risk of loss of quality and cost deviation.
Metodologia ABS® uses a model of contract management that assures the benefits form third-party processes without losing control of the process.
Supply Chain Management
Maximizing collaboration among partners
From acquisition planning of the necessary material and services to the operation, end service to demand for products or services related to the core business, all the supply chain processes are analyzed by this solution that is capable of meeting any business segment.
The solution explores internal / external (supplier/ customer) synergy, promoting the integration of the organization’s areas and generating a strategic, tactical and operational action map.
This offer is capable of meeting any segment in the industry and look to generate a strategic, tactical and operational map of actions, giving priority in function of the associated x implementation complexity benefit.
Work Safety and Health Management
Social Responsibility and Regulation Appropriateness.
The implementation of the Work Safety and Health Management System must be structured and adapted to the organization’s type of specific activity, such that it eliminates or minimizes the risks to employees. It is made up of a set of activities, systematically implemented and supported by the unequivocal definition of responsibilities and skills for all employees that control, execute and verify the activities. The Work Safety and Health Management has the basic premise of prevention instead of detecting problems. For this, it is fundamental that it is understood, implemented and sustained.
Environmental Management
Environmental Responsibility and Regulation Appropriateness.
The implementation of the Environmental Management System must be structured and adapted to the company’s type of specific activity, assessing the respective production process with the objective to reduce (or eliminate) its impacts and to integrate the environment into the strategies of the organizations. The Environmental Management System (EMS) model established according to rule ISO 14001 is a cyclical process of continuous improvement of the organization’s environmental performance, in which the EMS is regularly reviewed and assessed in order to identify opportunities for improvement.
Human and Professional Development
Company objectives aligned with those of its employees.
ABS believes that in many cases, company needs and its objectives are not aligned with its principal actors: the professionals that work there. It is in this space where the application of our training modules occur.
We divide human development into large themes, which complement the way in process and marketing demands are recognizably necessary: Abilities, Management, Attitude and Behavior, Specific Management Skills.
We believe the correct driver in human and professional development goes beyond improving what a person does, to do better, to promote alternatives for bigger and better opportunities.
Abilities
Organizations designed for knowledge exist and grow now, not in some distant future.
Developing abilities is a process that demands the definition of the base skills and requires that the best path is followed. To allow this transformation is to allow improvements hidden at first site that present intangible and opportune results.
Ask for a visit from one of our executives and learn about our work.
Management
The power is not in position, instead, in the person who holds it.
Management must not simply drift along, it should work with three possibilities: that of specialization, of knowledge or specific abilities; of relationships and personal connections; and that of the large intangible personal authority or charisma.
The organization that allows people to manifest and develop these 3 types of management will be giving a large step forward in their development.
Set a date for a visit with an ABS executive and learn how to apply this solution.
Attitude and Behavior
With the speed of adapting changes currently demanded, keeping people resilient is an arduous task.
Change can awaken a variety of emotions and reactions from people, in groups and organizations. Fear. Rejection. Confusion. Anxiety. Apathy. Impudence. It creates a feeling of impotence and loss of control.
In practice, making a change obeys a logical sequence of steps: provide knowledge, allow a positive attitude, win a better individual behavior, and with everyone together make a change in the organization.
Consult ABS about how to develop this change in your business.
Specific Skills
The progression of specifications generate a lack of updating.
Throughout history, thousands of management tools were developed, and including some that were mystified in their magnitude and importance, causing organizations to pass over their degree of development and with this, they always find themselves outdated every day. Since our philosophy is to bring profitability through management, with all-encompassing methodology, we are able to provide vocational education for various specific skills. They are: MASP, FMEA, SIX SIGMA, LEAN, KAIZEN, KAN BAN, among many others.
We can help bring better understanding of those large subjects. Consult us.
Auditing and Certification in Performance
Another product for the development of your company.
Auditing is the opposite of consulting. For ABS, the application of an audit is only to validate after a consultation of the process in question, thus assuring that it is necessary as a vehicle for continuous and sustainable improvement.
Every time a company conquers higher levels of excellence in its processes systematically audited, it understands that for this reason changes are made to the three aspects of the ABS concept of management (attitude, procedure, and system) and for this, the principal agents of this transformation are certified in this scenario: process leaders, resident areas of the process, and the promoting company. The validity of this vision is in the promotion of the management results for the whole company.
Appropriateness of Sector Rules
A requirement for the success of your business.
In the way imposed demands increase with the scenario the company is inserted into; whether coming from customers, suppliers, regulatory agencies, government, or associations, incoming business is created. The technical ruling is one of the most famous “incoming” ; it establishes minimum criteria for meeting technical requirements among the principal parties involved.
ABS Consulting offers a complete and precise service of appropriateness for a process for the technical demands, respecting it and providing its compliancy before the controlling agencies.
Customized Needs
Because each companies has an objective.
In accordance with out experience in more than 20 segments in the economy, with companies constantly searching for excellence in more than 15 countries, in the 30 years of existence, we have created a service that adds our entire accumulated network of relationship and experience together to offer solutions according to specifications that the market constantly imposes on companies.