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Proudfoot takes a finalist position for Best International Project in the 2018 Management Consultancies Association (MCA) Awards. The International Project Award is open to all Consulting firms worldwide, and the winner is announced at the 2018 MCA Awards ceremony, April 26th in London.
Proudfoot was chosen for its work in Mongolia for global mining company, Rio Tinto. Our project team, on the ground since February 2016, has been supporting the creation of Oyu Tolgoi, the world's largest underground mine, capable of producing copper for the global market for the next 100 years... Read More
In June 2018, Angus Maclean, a leader in Proudfoot’s Global Building Materials Practice discussed next-generation Target Operating Models (TOM) with Global Cement Magazine.
Leading companies implement a TOM to ensure successful use of critical behaviours, underpinned by processes and management tools, from ‘quarry-to-lorry’ across a cement producer’s business.
TOMs go beyond simply optimising each individual cement plant. Addressing the company’s network of plants and logistics operations, they optimise... Read More
TOM Cement: Management at a world-leading building materials firm which operated across more than 60 countries globally and had just undergone a major merger, were struggling to develop a uniform way of operating individual Cement Plants around the world, mostly due to clashing legacy practices on each plant.
European Refining Business: The Head of Refining for a major oil company was confronted with increasingly high costs at its four largest refineries in the US and Europe. Energy usage, at nearly 60% of operating cost, was continuing to rise.
Open Pit Gold Mine: The CEO's concern with his open-pit gold mining operation in Peru, was the decline in metal prices and an increase in cost per ton. Additionally, as the productive life of the mine was coming to an end, establishing an organizational structure that was in line with the current reality to maintain a cost-effective operation was paramount to success.
Working Capital: As a strategic priority, the CEO of a global equipment and services provider for the energy industry established an imperative to improve their working capital status.
