Digital Services
We help businesses fast track strategic digital change by blending industry-leading expertise with state-of-the-art systems and solutions excellence.
Digital
Strategy
- Digital Strategy Review &
Development - Digital Commercial Due Diligence
Market- & Sales Platform Creation & Implementation
- “Big Data“ Analysis & Reporting
Digital Transformation
- Transformation Business Case & Design
- Process & Organizational
Re-engineering -
Transformation Program & Change Management
- Re-structuring to adopt business to emerging digital requirements
Systems
Integration
- System Blueprint Development (Value Stream Mapping, Data and Technical Requirements)
- Strategic Sourcing of System Providers (Hard & Software, Solutions, MRO)
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Integration of specific internal & external solutions into existing system landscape
- Re-structuring to adopt business to emerging digital requirements
Solution
Developement
- System Blueprint Development (Value Stream Mapping, Data and Technical Requirements)
- Strategic Sourcing of System Providers (Hard & Software, Solutions, MRO)
System framework planning and implementation (ERP, production and logistic systems)
- Integration of specific internal & external solutions into the existing system landscape
1. Internal Challenges
- Limited understanding of the digital impact
- Lack of internal know-how/resources/capabilities
- Initiatives are driven by “digital hype” not professional business cases and objective perspectives
2. External Challenges
- Providers and consultants selling their own digital products or services, potentially resulting in a conflict of interest
- High professional fees due to the strong demand for digital advisory
- Scarcity of talented professionals and solutions engineers with international implementation skills.
3. Execution Challenges
- Relevant stakeholders (e.g. users, shop floor workers or customers) are not sufficiently participating during the development and implementation of solutions, potentially leading to user-unfriendly application
To address and overcome these challenges, Lansdowne Digital brings to the table a distinct set of value propositions with the aim of better driving and accelerating digital transformation and value to our clients.
Seamless
digital advice
Solution
developement
Sustainable
implementation
International
know-how
Truly
independent
Measurable
value impact
Explore some of our projects
Digital transformation for a railcar MRO group
Vending machine reporting system
Industrial mobile solutions for a railcar MRO Group
Custom EDI solutions for a railway MRO group
Digital transformation for a leading German railcar MRO group
The Situation
A leading European railcar MRO* group contracted Lansdowne Digital to support them in defining and driving their digital strategy & transformation. The organization lacked the required capabilities and know-how to develop a robust digital transformation strategy & roadmap and struggled with outdated IT systems and limited process standardization
Our Approach
01. Initial Assessment
Assessment of the market, financial, production and supply-chain processes & organization as well as the existing IT & data landscape and requirements.
02. Strategy Development
Developed a digital transformation strategy and support framework for the organization
03. Business Case
Developed a business case and plan including a roadmap of various digital initiatives
04. Roll Out & Evaluation
Pilot and roll-out of digital initiatives according to plan; Lansdowne also provided on-site support of implementation via a process re-engineering, software development & integration as well as change management.
Outcome & Value Impact
Developed client’s digital strategy, roadmap and business case; Successfully implemented initial digital solutions to improve lead times and enhance data quality. Over the next cases, we highlight specific areas in which we helped them transform their business.
Developing a bespoke vending machine reporting system for a leading Spanish vending machine operator
The Situation
A leading Spanish vending machine operator with more than 10.000 machines and 150+ logistics staff to physically control, supply and maintain its vending machines. Lansdowne Digital was tasked with optimizing its workforce intensive operations to drive cost efficiencies in a market suffering from decreasing revenues and margins
Our Approach
Lansdowne Digital helped the transformation of an old operating model by developing and implementing an entirely new digital logistics and marketing solution this included:
Integrating modems into all vending machines and brands to automate reporting and stock checking to increase agility and reduce $ cost of labour
Created a single platform to aggregate all machine data (logistics, payment and marketing data) in a central location
Aligned with key personnel, a reporting application has been developed to control machine logistics and product marketing information centrally
Outcome & Value Impact
Implementing industrial mobile solutions for a German railcar MRO Group
The Situation
A key part of the wheelset management optimization was an improvement to work processes across multiple maintenance centres with the aim of reducing both errors and the time spent on paperwork and administration whilst providing the staff with the information they need when they need it
Our Approach
Lansdowne Digital developed a digital strategy that was instrumental in transforming inefficient processes by identifying time-consuming and redundant steps within the workflow conducting a value stream mapping.
To facilitate this strategy, customized software solutions were developed including a bespoke mobile and desktop app to streamline admin, access and process for recording damage, maintenance schedules and invoicing
This app was designed to interface to the organisations existing ERP system to ensure a total overhaul of software was avoided
Outcome & Value Impact
Developing custom Electronic Data Interchange solutions for a leading German railway MRO group
The Situation
Whilst much work was done on improving the efficiency of internal platforms and processes, the final pillar in the digital transformation was increasing efficiencies between the group and their external partners to optimise areas around client communication, invoicing, purchasing and workflow. The current manual processes led to significant issues with errors and reconciliation, costing time and money
Our Approach
Lansdowne Digital developed and integrated an innovative E-invoice generator for this organisation to reduce manual input into the processes, minimize errors and shortened turnaround times for invoicing. This system focussed on three key areas
Importer for invoice data from the company’s ERP (tasks and articles invoiced)
Input mask for entering additional invoice data – Plausibility checks and data review on user’s interface
Generation and download of the e-invoice file