Our Strategy & Operations practice can help your business make major strategic decisions and implement business improvements in areas such as customer relationships, supply chain, mergers & acquisitions, financial management, program leadership and more. See how we've helped our clients.

Finance Transformation in Pharmaceuticals: From the F Troop to the 82nd Airborne 
Responding to slackening growth and profits, a pharmaceuticals company had implemented an overall enterprise effort to reduce costs and improve efficiency in its support functions. With Deloitte‘s assistance, the company examined all of its financial processes and determined where and how each process should be performed.

Finance Transformation in Telecom: Spreadsheets Begone
A large telecom company set out to transform finance functions from fragmented, manually intensive processes to consistent, transparent processes, and explored ways to improve these functions' ability to add strategic value. With Deloitte's assistance, the company implemented driver-based budgeting, planning and forecasting, and is now better equipped to develop budgets and forecasts that predict actual expenses with high accuracy.

Finance Transformation in Pharmaceuticals: When the Party's Over  
The CEO of a large finance company set out to shift the company from its single-minded focus on customer service to a more balanced perspective that included cost management and productivity. The company’s standing financial accounting and reporting operations were not up to this task. With Deloitte’s assistance, the company identified problems in its finance organization and developed a vision for finance efficiency and improvement.

Finance Transformation in Financial Services: Back on Track
A large U.S. financial services company needed to strengthen its finance organization’s capabilities so that it could operate effectively in the future. Their challenges included a disconnect between operations and finance, personnel shortage, multiple systems, complex processes and insufficient controls. With Deloitte’s help the company significantly enhanced its financial processes.

Life Sciences Company Seeks Relief from Growing Pains, Finds Immediate $40 Million in Savings
Although this life sciences company experienced initial rapid growth, the cost of starting new operations began to outpace its revenue. We helped it review its cost structure and align that with short- and long-term business goals.

General Contractor Has Success with Operations & Systems Process Improvement
A large general contractor turned to us to obtain a new job-costing system that serves its business purpose and integrates all of the companies various functions.

Telecommunications Company Has Success with Real Estate Operations, Systems and Process Improvement
The corporate real estate department of a large telecommunications company needed the assistance of our Corporate Real Estate group to reorganize and enhance its customer service and strategic value to the company.

Supermarket Conglomerate Identifies $60 Million in Potential Savings
A $12 billion subsidiary of a supermarket conglomerate faced significant competition and relatively low profit margins. With our assistance, the company initiated a strategic cost improvement project that would enable it to maintain and grow profits, while maintaining a position as a low-cost alternative to larger competitors.

Enterprise Cost Reduction in the Apparel Industry
This retailer of moderately priced apparel for women, men and children, like the vast majority of retailers across all industries, was suffering from a significant same-store sales decline. It turned to us for assistance in instituting cost reduction initiatives.