GATS team of specialists have experience across a wide variety of sectors providing a strong foundation for delivering its innovative service offerings.
In addition, GATS Professional Alliance Network (GPAN) harnesses the knowledge and experience of over 164 experts in key business sectors and professional and functional specialisms.
This ensures our customers receive the benefit of an effective, single source management and transformation capability, from conception to execution, across all business sectors in which we operate.Our alliance network experts help maximise the return of aviation sector assets in today’s increasingly competitive market environment, whether for an airport operator or an airline.
In collaboration with one airline customer, our experts developed and implemented a company wide efficiency and change management programme, which delivered a 25% reduction in the operating costs of the business.
In another assignment, they conducted a review of support needs for a major European carrier at a large airport hub. The recommended mix of improved maintenance strategies, more effective utilities management and supply chain optimisation enabled a 20% overall cost savings in facilities and operation support service costs.
These concrete results demonstrate how combining close collaboration with the customer with our experts’ “hands-on” approach can help organisations overcome tough operational challenges, move towards world-class performance and at the same time enhance their financial results.
In retail businesses where margins are very low, operating costs need to be optimal to achieve a minimum acceptable return from business assets employed in today’s increasingly competitive market place.
In prior assignments, the GATS team has helped major organisations reduce costs, improve availability, efficiency and reliability of their essential supply chain support and enhance Return on Investment in their retail portfolio.
From the food sector to the fuel retail sector, from master portfolio planning to detailed operational improvement, we have the experience to support customers enhance their business performance and profitability.Manufacturers are increasingly challenged by global markets, spiralling energy costs, higher infrastructure costs, talent shortages and expanding emerging market opportunities.
Continuous improvement tools like Six (6) Sigma, Lean Manufacturing and Business Process Improvement (“BPI”) through to strategic re-definition of core activities and outsourcing non-core activities are proven tools for addressing some of these challenges. Cost control, maximum up-time availability and greater asset optimisation are also key strategies for successful manufacturers.
Through GATS’ Professional Alliance Network (“GPAN”) of industry experts, we assist customers identify and develop performance improvement solutions.As a capital intensive industry holding high value asset portfolios, petro-chemical companies constantly seek to maximise profitability and generate investment capital for global portfolio expansion.
Health, Safety and Environmental stewardship is “mission-critical” and essential to ensuring integrity of operations from exploration and manufacturing to retail and distribution.
In one prior assignment, over a multi-year period, our experts delivered a cumulative $90 million costs savings to customer operations by combining supply chain optimisation, human capital re-organization and more effective business processes with deployment of enhanced tools, technology and systems.
For one shorter term assignment, they reduced supply chain costs by more than $5 million per year, using improved business processes and multiple supply chain optimization techniques.
As these outcomes demonstrate, bringing improved “risk management” and greater operational effectiveness to non-core operations (including logistics and warehousing) and improving return on investment for the wider asset portfolio, are GATS leadership team strengths, acquired over many years of working with the world’s largest petro-chemical organisations.Demographic challenges, political pressures, increasing competition, rising customer expectations and expensive new technology are forcing traditional European healthcare systems to make drastic adjustments in business and healthcare delivery models.
Process improvement, selective outsourcing and even full privatisation are solutions now supported by many regulators and healthcare operators and experts.
Using GATS’ analytical tools and methodologies, and collaborating to transform aspirations into executable project plans, GATS strategies can provide the “step-change" improvements in business performance and culture that healthcare operators seek.
Working with leading international academic healthcare and operations experts, we implement the agreed integrated solution that provides measurable improvement in medical and commercial performance along with customer and employee satisfaction.
GATS capabilities include administrative and academic concept development, finance facilitation, commissioning, infrastructure and technical management for newly operating entities. For existing public or private organisations or for new builds or consolidated operations, GATS provides process optimisation, in- and out-sourcing knowledge and privatisation expertise tailored to a customer’s objectives.Electricity, water and waste treatment are essential platform capabilities for a nation’s economic growth. Utility industries are transforming themselves worldwide with increasing market investment, deregulation and privatisation.
As a highly capital and knowledge intensive sector operating in an increasingly competitive landscape, inventive strategies and close management attention are essential to achieving improved profitability and delivering the most efficient use of capital intensive assets.
GATS’ Diagnostics methods include innovative operational and financing models which help realise these important business objectives. They also enable us to provide customers with solutions that help maximise Return on Invested Capital, both in terms of operational delivery and asset re-financing.Pharmaceutical (“Pharma”) companies are facing a highly dynamic business environment.
More stringent regulation, enhanced revalidation standards set by FDA and EMEA authorities, increasing rating agency monitoring, margin reducing rebate systems demanded by health insurers, fewer and larger client groups and competition from generics continue to transform the sector and force relentless optimization of product pipelines and portfolios and continuous development of expensive new technologies and therapy concepts.
As a result, costs are increasing sharply for R & D budgets and for design and implementation of the NDA (“new drug application”) compliant large scale manufacturing processes and equipment needed to reduce the time to market and assure readiness to distribute promptly after a new drug’s approval.
To achieve desired target returns on risk capital employed, successful pharma companies are increasingly focusing on these critical “core” activities and transferring capital and labour intensive non-core activities and non-core assets to partners with the necessary optimization capabilities.
Our alliance relationships in the finance and investment communities help us facilitate innovative finance solutions that not only can help re-organise a customer’s asset base with resulting improvements to the Balance Sheet, but also permit concurrent identification and deployment of business performance improvement measures (using GATS diagnostic tools) that increase financial returns separately and create added measurable competitive advantage.
The global finance and insurance sectors have been in turmoil due to a harsh credit crunch dramatically affecting banks and borrowers in numerous markets worldwide.
Many financial organizations are reducing capacity, selling or spinning off non-core divisions and otherwise “right-sizing” their structure to adapt to the more stringent business conditions they are experiencing.
In this tough trading environment, GATS’ asset transformation and business performance optimization services are capable of significantly improving finance or insurance business operations by innovative service optimization and non-core operations re-engineering.