The metals and mining industry is facing unprecedented volatility. BCG helps clients throughout the industry’s value chain excel amid a fast-changing landscape.
Recent trends in the mining and metals industry have put new pressures on companies to rethink their approaches to mining strategy, transform their industrial metal operations, and meet environmental sustainability targets.
BCG’s metals and mining consulting experts help clients grasp the complex forces reshaping the industry and craft the right strategies and operating models to meet new imperatives.
BCG’s global teams of experts specialize in both the mining industry and metals industry (including steel, aluminum, copper, and other base metals). We partner closely with clients to help them engineer the strategic and operational shifts needed to stay competitive. We also help clients manage large-scale change and build the in-house capabilities that are essential for sustaining success.
BCG’s ability to combine expertise in operations transformation with knowledge of digital and analytics technologies is unique in the metals and mining consulting industry. This skill has earned us accolades and long-term partnerships across all commodities and diverse geographies.
Our proprietary approaches and frameworks enable clients to achieve unprecedented efficiency and effectiveness in every aspect of their businesses, including operations, strategy and logistics.
Shell and BCG have paired numerous times to reimagine the future and, in the process, have incubated and launched several new businesses. MachineMax, which evolved from an initiative whose initial aim was to find new applications for Shell lubricants, provides an answer to a critical challenge facing the mining and construction industries: how to maximize the productivity of their equipment.
So much so that the climate action leader has furthered its sustainability mandate by launching large-scale decarbonization and operational pilots that will be implemented across sites.
A large integrated metals player digitally transforms to put customers first. BCG worked with an industrial metal client to develop a seamless value chain that used digital and advanced analytics to manage complexity and minimize uncertainty in its services processes. The transformation set the stage for a 10-point improvement in service levels, a rise in EBITDA of 2 to 4 points, and reductions in inventory levels of four to ten days.
A diversified mine operator reinvents its marketing and sales strategy. With BCG’s help, the client revamped its entire approach to marketing and sales by developing local sales forces for products in nonliquid markets where the company had a smaller market share, while also building a commodity-trading business for products that had reached full liquidity in the market. The estimated bottom-line impact was more than $1 billion in annual pretax benefit.
A major steelmaker transforms to supercharge its earnings. BCG helped the client revive margins damaged by overcapacity and correct a siloed corporate culture. We launched a comprehensive transformation program that included improvement projects for mill production, sales, service efficiency, purchasing, and administration. The work resulted in €2 billion in increases of identified potential earnings, €540 million in top-line improvements, and €1.5 billion in cost efficiencies.
Teck Resources Limited uses data science to optimize operations and transform the entire business. BCG worked with the mining company to harness key insights from its wealth of operational data using machine learning—a program called RACE21—to improve processing efficiency. The program has not only allowed Teck to reduce costs but also to minimize the company’s impact on the environment. Read the full story in Wired.
Natural Resource Ops, BCG X’s proprietary AI solution, helps companies uncover opportunities hidden in existing continuous-process operations, offering real-time recommendations that create transformational change and improve performance at any stage of the process.
Plantfacts by BCG is a state-of-the-art online tool that provides fast and in-depth insights into the global steel production landscape. With its intuitive, interactive dashboards, Plantfacts captures the essence of technical data by providing market and company intelligence along the entire steel making value chain.
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