Reinventing the wheel: what’s driving change
How can the mobility sector respond to evolving consumer expectations to influence and lead a transformation towards cleaner, more connected and collaborative systems?
Automotive
Helping the automotive industry navigate a changing landscape
At a global level, the automotive industry is experiencing a period of profound transformation. The drive for more efficient vehicles and new sources of energy are changing the industry landscape while digital technologies, shifting consumer behaviours and newfound supply chain vulnerability are disrupting traditional business models. We support automotive OEMs, equipment suppliers and dealers with tailor-made solutions to help them reinvent themselves and grow in this new world of mobility.
Our approach
The automotive industry is in a constant state of evolution. Regulatory change, technological innovation and economic upheaval continually shape and transform the sector. Mobility service providers and emerging start-ups are disrupting the sector. As the industry reinvents itself in response to demands for cleaner and more efficient vehicles, operators must find ways to become more efficient, resilient and robust in the face of competitive forces.
Our automotive specialists work with manufacturers, suppliers and distributors to improve performance, fuel growth and implement practical solutions for the challenges they face. Our capabilities combined with our deep knowledge of the automotive industry make us an ideal partner as you seek to secure your future and drive sustainable growth.
As an operator in this industry, you are likely concerned about:
Seizing market opportunities and enhancing your market presence
We can help you establish new businesses or move into emerging and growth markets, identify new product range, and ensure the success of your acquisitions and partnership projects.
Securing and optimising your operations
It is vital that your business is robust. We can work with you to digitalise your operations and harness data to improve productivity. We can also review your investment projects, put in place internal controls and risk management procedures, conduct reviews to improve decision-making and fraud prevention and implement a green strategy.
Financing and securing your supply chain
Our experts work with you to secure programme and infrastructure financing, optimise and secure your global supply chain, and deploy new financing solutions such as reverse factoring.
When you partner with us, you benefit from a team with multidisciplinary expertise in audit, advisory and tax that has been mobilised specifically to support your needs and overcome these challenges.
At all times, our commitment is to bring you the best of what Forvis Mazars has to offer so that you can secure your future and create value for stakeholders.
The restarting automotive industry
As the automotive industry around the world comes to terms with the consequences of Covid-19 and begins to slowly return to work, Mazars experts around the world provide insights about the impact of the virus, government measures where they are and their views on what happens next.
Sustainable mobility study
Mazars automotive expert community, together with the industry experts from IHS, are pleased to present the 2018 global study on sustainable mobility.
Green growth opportunities in automotive sector
As pressure grows on the automotive sector to become more sustainable and reduce emissions, there will be commercial (and reputational) opportunities for automotive manufacturers and others if they improve their sustainability and pricing amid new green policies, programmes and regulation.
Auto transformation: petrol tanks to data banks
Automotive consumers’ priorities have long been shifting from simply getting from A to B to comfort, status, entertainment, and more. Today, they are changing again, accelerating towards sustainability and ‘mobility as a service’ (MaaS). Companies in the automotive ecosystem that stand to win and grow in this environment will form strategic partnerships, make the best use of data, and be imaginative...
Learning to carshare: drivers & manufacturers
Driven by the growth in smartphone usage, concern for sustainability and the uptake of electric vehicles, carsharing is on the rise. In the coming years, this is likely to change how manufacturers and car rental companies operate: altering the market pattern of demand for cars and speeding up their adoption of data and analytics capabilities.
5G promises a new mobility era
Fifth generation technology enables mobile devices to process more data at lightning fast speeds. In the short run that means improved functionality and faster mobile downloads, streaming and gaming. In the longer run it will enable connected vehicles, autonomous cars, real time access to information about how to make greener local journeys, and many other advances across the mobility spectrum.
Digital audit
Using data analysis and machine learning techniques, we offer digital audit services that bring greater efficiencies and reduce costs. This solution results in a ‘zero paper’ audit that is automated and highly secure. It ensures compliance with legal and regulatory obligations while optimising your commercial means and identifying risks, bringing better competitiveness and value to your company.
Business transformation
Increasingly complex markets, disruptive megatrends and competitive conditions are making holistic changes necessary. Our business transformation approach is consistently oriented towards your strategy, an efficient and effective target operating model, a finely tuned collaboration model. We also consider your corporate culture, as well as the relevant management and controlling mechanisms.
IT transformation
We support you in setting up your IT transformation agenda. We find the right, agile technologies for your company, and then lead them systematically and step-by-step into efficient processes so that you can generate added value for your company. We do all this without major disruption to your ongoing operations, so you can continue to focus on your core business.
Carve-out
From the development of the strategy and identification of the affected structures and processes to the transition and post-contractual negotiations, our business transformation team will actively support you as a competent consultant throughout the entire process. Consistent change management, which is also part of our services, also ensures the sustainable success of a carve-out program.
Value creation/ cost cutting
In times of economic downturn, companies need to act quickly to manage the associated challenges. It is crucial to reduce costs without compromising the growth of the company. To establish a cost-optimised structure in your company, consistent cost control measures are necessary. As soon as funds are freed up by the implemented cost reduction measures, your company should invest in its future.
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Jonathan Comley Regional Leader - Gqeberha
