At Vendigital we take an intelligent approach to cost optimisation and focus on delivering client outcomes, not consultancy reports, ensuring that we deliver quantifiable cost benefits and leave clients with solutions that deliver long-term results. Our transportation and infrastructure consultants have partnered with organisations within the rail and bus industries, vehicle operators and original equipment manufacturer (OEMs) in the UK and Mainland Europe, as well as the infrastructure operators and construction supply chains across rail, roads, sea and aviation.
Our transportation and infrastructure consultants understand the challenges faced by the industry, from increasing consumer demand and changing preferences, and the need for investment in technology coupled with the pressure to reduce costs, through to compliance and tightening environmental standards. Clients in this space are often faced with the need to release cash tied up in capital, achieve challenging programme outcomes and deliver complex projects – all while maintaining a safe and stable service.
We deliver data-led accelerated cost transformation through a combination of multi-disciplinary consulting expertise and our proprietary digital platform, underpinned by our Insights360 methodology. Core to our approach is our operational expertise, in-house data science capability and extensive business transformation and implementation experience.
We don’t just advise you on what needs to be done, we work with you to execute the plan and deliver cost benefits for your business.
The challenges facing the transportation and infrastructure industry
With the transportation and infrastructure industry going through a transitional period of great change, we are acutely aware of the need to continue to deliver a reliable service while undergoing transformation. A marked reduction in revenue with an uncertain future has squeezed already tight profit margins, creating further pressure points.
Our team of transportation and infrastructure consultants are able to deploy their considerable industry and operational experience to develop creative solutions, which meet environmental goals while delivering against cost transformation objectives.
• 80% reduction in passenger numbers due to COVID-19
• Potential for a permanent change to working habits as a result of the pandemic, reducing demand for public transport at peak times
• Long-term forecast of 20% fall in passenger numbers with corresponding drop in profits
• Replacement of the franchising model with Passenger Service Contracts following post-Covid National Rail Contracts
• The financial impact of future fare reforms, especially when combined with reduced passenger numbers
• Operational challenges related to the implementation and running of Great British Rail
• Support required to meet targets set out in the Government’s decarbonisation scheme
• Continuing to deliver service while making changes to meet environmental targets
• The introduction of new, green tech and sustainable transport
Looking for an industry expert?
Our transportation and infrastructure consultants are a blended team of industry and operational specialists – including procurement and supply chain professionals, and cost engineers – and implementation experts, with an unparalleled understanding of the complex workings of the sector.
By bringing together our multi-disciplinary consulting expertise with our digital platform, we are able to deploy data-driven operational insights to embed measurable and sustainable cost benefits across your business.
We do this across:
Utilising our data analytics expertise and industry knowledge, we are able to identify specific cost, performance and operational levers to deliver technical, commercial and project opportunities – ranging from quick wins to transformative solutions. These can present themselves through different initiatives from OEM and construction supply chain negotiations, cost benefit analysis to deliver savings and identify areas which aren’t adding value, to the identification of new technologies and more productive ways of working. In addition, we can help make improvement in working capital, set up programmes for success, deliver projects better and faster, optimise rolling stock and improve product and project lifecycle costs.
We fully understand that businesses operating in this space can be constrained by functional bottlenecks and legacy ways of working. By engaging with both stakeholders and suppliers across organisations, our consultants effectively prioritise opportunities that will produce the most value to a business, at pace.
Get in touch to find out how our transportation and infrastructure consultants can partner with you to achieve your cost transformation requirements.
Why choose Vendigital?
We are ideally placed to help complex businesses accelerate the transformation of their cost bases.
Client collaboration is at the heart of our approach
We cut through complexity quickly
We're focused on delivering long-term outcomes for clients
We work with clients to set the strategy and deliver the nuts and bolts of the solution
Intelligent approach to cost optimisation through deep understanding of cost and cost drivers
Deliver quantifiable cost reductions through our cost neutral fee structure
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