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The current economic landscape presents the opportunity to gain competitive advantage through major change. BCG's Wilderich Heising looks at the need for new thinking in the face of adversity.

Wilderich Heising is a core member of Boston Consulting Group's Operations Center, and a leader of BCG's manufacturing and supply chain work. His client work is focused on operations topics in health care, consumer products, and industrial goods. He co-leads the firm’s work in advanced network optimization globally and additive manufacturing for Europe. 

In his many operations engagements, Wilderich has worked with clients on manufacturing and supply chain strategy and network optimization, as well as advanced manufacturing topics such as additive manufacturing/3D printing, digitization of operations and Industry 4.0, and driving and sustaining operational excellence. 

Prior to joining BCG, Wilderich spent time working in the automotive industry and with engineered products.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

EDUCATION

  • PhD, engineering, Berlin Technical University
  • MEng, mechanical engineering/business administration, Technical University Darmstadt/Royal Technical University Stockholm

Publications and Videos

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Reducing Costs and Carbon in Manufacturing Networks

Optimizing networks requires balancing five key objectives that address traditional issues of cost, service, and growth as well as a new focus on sustainability and resilience.
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3D Printing Helps Realize the Promise of Distributed Manufacturing

Combining distributed and additive manufacturing mitigates supply chain risks by enabling fully digital interactions, better economics for producing small quantities, and flexible capacity.
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Future-Proofing Your Product Supply Network

Building resilience and promoting sustainability while maintaining cost efficiency, service levels, and growth requires redesigning your network—and that will take several years. Better get started.
Demystifying the Maze of 3D Printing Technologies

Demystifying the Maze of 3D Printing Technologies

A comparison of technologies requires detailed assessments of costs as well as technical capabilities. Companies can’t get by with a one-size-fits-all approach.
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Additive Manufacturing Needs a Business Ecosystem

Companies may finally be able to achieve the long-awaited step change in the industry’s development—if they act collectively, rather than individually.
Winning the Fight in the Private Sector

Spotlight: How Additive Manufacturing Can Rebound from the Crisis

How the Private Sector Can Navigate the New Reality and Transform for the Future.
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Serious About Quality? Then Make It a Part of Your Culture

It’s essential to focus on culture as the context for quality, rather than just promulgating standards that provide the content of quality.
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Surviving Disruption in Additive Manufacturing

Mastering the interplay between materials and printing technologies will be critical to success in the industry’s increasingly competitive ecosystem.
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Get Ready for Industrialized Additive Manufacturing

Industrialized AM will become a reality only if key stakeholders—including materials suppliers, equipment providers, and end users—act now to define their differentiated strategies.