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MP CONSULTING is a global consultancy services company on business and technology
based in Italy, specialized in executing projects in fields that have become indispensable
for preserving competitiveness of public and private companies, such as:
•Engineering and Manufacturing
•Strategic Planning and Business Consulting
•Business Innovation and Sustainable Development
•Business Solutions and Technology
Moreover, the business model proposed by MP CONSULTING, exploits the synergies
created between the different consulting fields, offering its clients capabilities of a
multidisciplinary team with a vocation for international projects, amalgamating
knowledge, experience, technology and innovation.
MP CONSULTING counts on a team of more than 80 professionals; are Graduated
and/or Engineers with more than 5 years of experience in the development of
consultancy activities with major companies
MP CONSULTING has developed projects for customers in Europe, North and South
America, Russia, China and India
Company Profile
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MP CONSULTING was born with a vision and a series of values that translated into the
organizational model and the corporate culture that turned us into one of the most
attractive companies of the sector for the personal and professional development of
consultants, managers, and partners.
From our beginning, we managed our experience, giving support to our colleagues and
helping our clients by giving them value added all the time, convinced that only being 100%
efficient we shall be able to make the difference in a market characterized by the
globalization and concentration of our sector.
Right now, after almost 5 years of activity, we consolidated our relation with a group of
clients, consultants, managers, and partners who loyally support our company
Among the most relevant clients included in MP CONSULTING’s portfolio we may find
COMAU, SINERIA, FIAT GROUP AUTOMOBILES, MIKRON Group, FONDMETAL, WANFENG,
VITALI, TOORA, LUMSON, etc., which allows us positioning especially in the Industry and
Services sector.
Company Profile
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Today, it is as important to do the right planning as it is to be ready for permanent
change and for developing the necessary capacities that would us to adapt to a changing
environment in economic, legal, political, and technological terms.
MP CONSULTING takes its clients along on this path “to excellence”, combining a solid
experience in the sector with a high level of familiarity with the market standards,
methodologies, and tools, in order to permanently assure the product quality, operational
excellence, and business objectives.
In this sense, the answer of MP CONSULTING ’s Business Consulting Division to the
market needs takes shape as an integrated assortment of services structured into 3
areas:
•Business & Organisation
•Operation
•Quality
Business Organisation
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The main features of the approach we apply to our projects, which, according to our
experience, is guarantee of success, are:
•managing our projects applying an practical approach, aimed at getting solid results in the
short term.
•creating work teams where the client’s staff is invited to participate,to receive a true know-
how transfer.
•bringing in a global vision of the projects, going through the whole value chain of our
services, from the consulting over the implementation to the maintenance of the defined
solutions.
Business Organisation
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MP CONSULTING participates in the market through its Information and Communication
Technologies Division, offering top-level know-how, verified methodologies, and
innovative solutions to the companies intending to improve their management and
information, their position in competition, and to increase their value.
This is achieved by means of a harmonic integration of:
•Knowledge of the sectors
•Focus on business processes
•Technological skills
On the other hand, our methodologies, our professionals, and our knowledge and
experience in the implementation and integration of the most important computer tools
existing in the market allow us to help our clients during the complete implementation
cycle of the defined solutions
IT Solutions
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Innovation and sustainable development are two long-term management strategies that
allow us to consolidate the value of ideas with the knowledge of the status of the situation
(such as local environment diagnosis or technological monitoring at the company level), as
a response to the growing demand for differentiation and quality.
MP CONSULTING's Innovation and Sustainable Development Division counts on an
international team that offers its clients and partners its experience in managing projects
focussed on developing innovation and integrating sustainability criteria.
The response of MP CONSULTING's Innovation and Sustainable Development Division to
growing and improving the competitiveness of our clients takes shape in an integrated
assortment of services, structured into 3 large areas:
•Innovation
•Research & Development
•Susteinable Development
The final objective is to develop new or adapted products and services as a response to the
growing demand for differentiation our clients are claiming from us and which would allow
us to integrate the new technologies in our business sphere when the moment has come.
Innovation and sustainable development
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The experience gained at each of the projects carried out up to this moment and the
business know-how thus accumulated are the cause why MP CONSULTING is
especially focussed on companies of the Industry and Services sector
MP CONSULTING is aiming its efforts at all companies, regardless of the economic
sector they belong to, as may be seen from its references; but it is also true that the
experience acquired from the projects carried out up to this moment and the experience
and business know-how thus obtained induced MP CONSULTING to concentrate
especially on companies of the Industry and Services sector, whose activity has to do
with the following sectors:
Public Sector:
Local Administration (County Councils and Town Councils)
Public Administration (Communitarian, National and Provincial)
Private Sector:
Automobile (OEM's and Tier 1 and Tier 2 Suppliers)
Chemical and Pharmaceutical
Manufacturing
Professional Services
Our experiences
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The automotive sector went through a rough economic situation, which strongly
modified its frame of action. The globalization propitiated a strong growth of new
markets, such as India, China, Russia or Eastern Europe, caused by the presence
of a strong demand and foreign investments. These young economies are
increasing their world-wide market share, while the traditional automobile
manufacturing companies are having some problems in confronting new
competitors: the average EBIT margin in the last years was 4.5%, much lower if
compared to other sectors of the manufacturing industry.
The main problems pointed out by the original equipment manufacturers (OEM)
are a lower-than-foreseen sales volume, higher material costs, increasing costs of
marketing campaigns, and delays in new products (time-to-market). On the other
hand, the original equipment suppliers (OES) are putting the emphasis on
problems concerning the management of the relations with manufacturers and the
development of an efficient supply chain management (SCM).
Knowledge is becoming one of the key aspects for managing this change and
allows the companies to generate the necessary innovation, identified as the
driving force for survival. But naturally, innovation is linked to the flexibility of the
business model, which can be developed only applying a firm discipline and a very
strong business leadership
Our experiences
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Thanks to the experience in international projects gathered over the last years, MP
CONSULTING can offer all the required know-how and support, as well as a collection
of ruling principles and methodologies along the whole automobile value chain, in
order to:
•Create and organize a new, flexible, and successful automobile company, or
introducing a project change based upon a preliminary strong costs reduction project
(cost calculation).
•Manage the product portfolio, the data lifecycle, and the product quality to
considerably reduce time-to-market.
•Manage the company’s Operations and splitting the company’s activity into its
components to act as an aggregation for smaller companies, thus to simplify the
activity-based cost control process.
•Specialize the company, with a focus on its main advantages, and relying on the
strategic and business partners for closing gaps and getting the opportunity of
exploiting new areas.
•Simplify the search for business opportunities, thus to make their management
simpler and easier.
•Unify the interactions between people, processes, and technology in the company.
Our experiences : Automotive
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The industries in the chemical sector are facing the necessity of intensifying their
investments in research, development and innovation, having to optimize the result of
their industrial and logistic processes, to manage the high cost pressure derived from
rising raw material prices and market globalization at the same time, without forgetting
the client management and the public opinion.
The knowledge acquired by MP CONSULTING enables our company to define and
validate vertical solutions for improving and optimizing business processes by identifying
the appropriate system requirements and by choosing the most technological solution.
In this sense, through the integrated approach to the business processes offered to the
market by MP CONSULTING, based upon the necessary alignment of business and
technology, together with the experience and know-how of the sector, a specific solution
has been defined for the Chemicals sector, which will help the companies of this sector
to compare their business processes with the best market practices and align them with
the related technology.
MP CONSULTING makes solution available to the companies of the sector, solutions
based upon reference models of business processes and integrated in the SAP (if
necessary), together with the consulting services for defining and implementing the
solution and the interfaces to other systems, such as the Logistic Engineering System
(LES) and the Manufacturing Execution System (MES).
Our experiences : Chemical & Pharma
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The clear trend towards internationalization of the manufacturing companies, both as to
searching for new markets and looking for production sites with lower costs, creates a new
framework for these companies, which are facing up to more and more competition and to
a higher complexity in management due to the different international environments they
are moving in. The industries of the manufacturing sector are confronting a growing cost
pressure, mainly derived from the new global competition they have to deal with; so they
need to permanently improve their business processes in order to become ever more
efficient, agile, and competitive organizations.
The added complexity of delocalisation, the new processes and global competitors mean
that the main challenge for the manufacturing companies consists in managing these new
dynamics correctly by using more powerful, simple and efficient strategies and tools, thus
to achieve higher productivity levels and to be able to bring to the market better products
at an appropriate cost in less time
In this sense, through the integrated approach to the business processes offered to the
market by MP CONSULTING, based upon the necessary alignment of business and
technology together with the experience and know-how of the sector, a specific solution
has been defined for the manufacturing sector, which will help the companies of this sector
to compare their business processes with the best practices of the market and align them
with the related technology.
Our experiences : Manufacturing
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MP CONSULTING makes solutions available to the companies of the sector, solutions
based upon reference models of business processes and integrated in SAP (if necessar),
together with the consulting services for defining and implementing the solution and the
interfaces to other systems, such as the Logistic Engineering System (LES) and the
Manufacturing Execution System (MES).
Our experiences : Manufacturing
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MP Consulting give solutions to design of a product requires in collaboration of engineers
from many fields. These engineers apply the sciences of physics and mathematics to find
suitable solutions to problems or to make improvements to the status quo. These
engineers have knowledge of relevant sciences for their design projects. If multiple options
exist, engineers weigh different design choices on their merits and choose the solution that
best matches the requirements. The crucial and unique task of is to identify, understand,
and interpret the constraints on a design in order to produce a successful result. It is
usually not enough to build a technically successful product; it must also meet further
requirements.
Constraints may include available resources, physical, imaginative or technical limitations,
flexibility for future modifications and additions, and other factors, such as requirements
for cost, saferty, marketability, productibility. By understanding the constraints, engineers
derive specifications for the limits within which a viable object or system may be produced
and operated.
Also our engineers use their knowledge of approach of a problem solving to allows to
analyze it and to test potential solutions. We use: prototyoping, scale moduling,
simulations, desctructive tests and stress tests.
Our experiences : Engineering
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Engineering aproach include a risk
analysis in the designs to reduce the
risk of unexpected failure. One of the
most widely used tools in the project is
computer aided design (CAD) to create
3D models, 2D drawings, and
schematics of their designs. CAD
together with Digital Mockup (DMU)
and CAE software such as finite
element method analysis or analytic
element method allows to create
models of designs that can be analyzed
without having to make expensive and
time-consuming physical prototypes.
These allow products and components
to be checked for flaws; assess fit and
assembly; study ergonomics; and to
analyze static and dynamic
characteristics of systems Access and
distribution of all this information is
generally organized with the use of
Product Data Management software
Our experiences : Engineering
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MP CONSULTING’s Turnkey solution is the suggestion we give to our customer during
business transaction between different entities are responsible for setting up a plant or a
part of it. A complex project involving infrastructure facility, a chemical plant, or a refinery
demands expertise which is not available with a single firm. The owner organizes the
overall project with a turnkey firm and 'receives' the project on its completion and can
then start to operate it. The 'agents' of the owner are: the principal engineering firm, the
licensor (if any),service subcontractors (e.g. electrical contractor) and the suppliers. There
may be several contracts drawn up by the principal engineering firm but they only identify
the latter as the recipient of the services. The principal contract is the one that binds the
owner and principal engineering firm.
A turnkey business is a business that includes everything you need to immediately start
running the business.
Turnkey operation is “a product or service which can be implemented or utilized with no
additional work required by the buyer (just by 'turning the key')".
A business that is being sold as a turnkey business would include tangibles such as
inventory and equipment through intangibles such as a previously established reputation
and goodwill.
Our experiences : Engineering
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The most common type of business sold as a turnkey business is a franchise. In the case of
franchises, a turnkey business could/couldn’t includes a building that has been constructed
to the franchise's specifications, and an exclusive territory.
We suggest to entrepreneurs to consider a buying turnkey business with a due diligence
analysis and be sure they know exactly what a particular turnkey operation includes; not all
turnkey businesses are created equal!
A turnkey project could involve the following elements depending on its complexity:a
project-consultancy firm is often involved but it is required to stay independent of the
turnkey engineers and be responsible only to the owner - a watchdog so to speak. The
project-consultancy firm has access to all sections of the infrastructure or plant (as
applicable) but cannot direct the staff involved.
The turnkey-contractor furnishes a wide variety of and accepts several liabilities. These
include :
Turnkey projects can also be extended, known as 'turnkey plus', where there is perhaps a
small equity interest by the engineering firm or the main suppliers to ensure allegiance
during the initial operational phases. Once the turnkey phase is over and the engineering
firm receives the 'completion certificate', (from the owner), the latter will work
independently or with the licensor (if any).
Our experiences : Engineering
