Industrials Strategy Consulting

Industrial manufacturing companies must reimagine production and supply chain models to stay competitive in the face of today’s macroeconomic and digital disruptions. We help industrial clients create strategies to meet these challenges and build long-term sustainable growth.

The team

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Amar Mehta
EY-Parthenon Global and Americas Industrials & Energy Industry Leader
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Dave Poniatowski
Principal, EY-Parthenon, Ernst & Young LLP
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Danielle Ullner
EY-Parthenon Senior Venture Builder – Industrials and Energy Venture Lead, Ernst & Young LLP
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What the EY-Parthenon Industrials team can do for you

Industrial manufacturers today must contend with a range of challenges, from geopolitical and economic uncertainty to energy transition and digital disruption.

EY-Parthenon teams can help you address your critical business challenges:

Transformative strategy

  • How can we reimagine our growth and portfolio strategies to enhance long-term enterprise value?
  • How can we make improvements that enhance sustainability, agility, efficiency and supply chain resilience? 
  • How can we reimagine enterprise design to improve performance across a range of factors, such as cost to serve, employee experience and capital efficiency? 
  • How can we adopt an effective tariff strategy, including pricing, cost optimization and supply chain design?
  • How can we improve our aftermarket business through field sales and service, channel management, pricing and modernization? 
  • How can we identify new business opportunities or create new revenue streams?

Transformative transactions

  • How can we acquire companies with an established market presence or product portfolio to facilitate entry into new markets? 
  • How can we use M&A to reduce manufacturing costs or mitigate the risk of disruption to create a more resilient supply chain structure? 
  • How can we integrate AI and advanced manufacturing technologies to enhance operational efficiency and optimize our product portfolio?
  • How can we use alternative transaction structures, such as joint ventures (JVs) and alliances, to drive speed to market, create economies of scale and access new customers?
  • How can we optimize our business portfolio through divestitures, carve-outs and spin-offs?

EY-Parthenon professionals help manufacturers develop agile strategies that are designed to help them prepare for future challenges, drive growth and create long-term enterprise value.

Our mission is to help industrial clients reimagine the enterprise for increased resilience and sustained competitiveness. This often requires strategic collaboration from different service areas. EY-Parthenon teams regularly draw on EY advisors in tax, analytics, digital or technology transformation, human capital, cybersecurity, and finance and risk consulting. By involving our professionals from these areas, we can help:

  • Develop growth and portfolio strategies that address changing market demands and technological advancements while managing cost pressures
  • Make improvements to manufacturing processes and supply chain design, including implementing just-in-time manufacturing and sustainable practices, diversifying suppliers, and enhancing inventory management 
  • Reimagine enterprise design to improve performance across a range of measures, including cost to serve, employee experience and capital efficiency 
  • Identify existing endowments within the business that can be developed to create new business models or revenue streams 
  • Identify transaction opportunities — including JVs and alliances, as well as traditional M&A — to enhance product portfolios and help enter new markets 
  • Optimize the business portfolio through strategic divestitures, carve-outs or spin-offs
  • Integrate AI and advanced technologies to streamline operations, optimize product offerings and drive innovation across manufacturing processes

How can you reimagine tomorrow and build it today?

Learn how our deep experience in the industrials sector helped one company.

EY-Parthenon Industrials Strategy Consulting team

Amar Mehta

EY-Parthenon Global and Americas Industrials & Energy Industry Leader
Passionate about helping clients find new paths to growth. Loving husband with two young boys. Avid runner. Aspiring chef and wine connoisseur.
 

Dave Poniatowski

Principal, EY-Parthenon, Ernst & Young LLP
Client-focused principal advising companies on valuation, corporate finance, and operational considerations for their largest and most strategic deals. Dedicated husband. Father of four.
Philadelphia, PA, United States

Danielle Ullner

EY-Parthenon Senior Venture Builder – Industrials and Energy Venture Lead, Ernst & Young LLP
Operator, investor, builder and scaler. Mentor and advocate. Girl mom.
McLean, VA, United States

Paul Carbonneau

EY Americas Strategy and Transformation Co-Leader
Engineer by training who started his career on the shop floor in the automotive sector. Lived in China and Japan, and speaks Japanese. Former board member of the International Dyslexia Association.
Tysons, VA, United States

Susan Lee

EY-Parthenon US Commercial Strategy Leader
Working mother. High-performing team builder. Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) advocate. Helps companies and people transform and grow.
Boston, MA, United States

Claudio Knizek

Principal, EY-Parthenon, Ernst & Young LLP
Experienced leader passionate about driving value creation through large-scale transformations and operational improvements. Outdoors fan. History buff. Husband and father of two.
 
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