SCI Verkehr is an independent and highly specialised management consultancy focusing on strategic issues in the international rail and logistics business. We are professionals in our markets around the world and advise our clients in developing and implementing strategies since 1994.
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As part of the annual strategy workshop of a leading player in the railway segment, SCI Verkehr presented current market and technological developments and discussed possible opportunities for internal and external growth at the decision-maker level.
Customer: Financial investor
On behalf of an investor, SCI Verkehr prepares a due diligence. The target is a service company for the railway sector.
Customer: Industrial group
SCI Verkehr has been commissioned by an industrial group to analyse the market potential for innovative track components. The focus was on a market and competition analysis in Germany.
Customer: Credit institution
On behalf of a refinancing bank, SCI Verkehr compiled an overview over the development of significant categories of goods in Europe. The overview was used in preparation of a possible financing of freight wagons.
Customer: Globally established systems supplier
On behalf of a systems supplier, SCI Verkehr prepared a short component analysis. For this purpose, a brief overview of global standards, demand, market volumes and competition was compiled.
Customer: German rail freight operator
Within the scope of a portfolio analysis, SCI Verkehr undertook a comprehensive market valuation, which identified the competition and market dynamic of various potential markets. The following partial results were provided in the process: Identification of main competitors in each potential market, valuation of strategic rationale as well as its medium-term development in each potential market, valuation of market position and intensity of competition as well as the development of each potential market in comparison to the development of the rail freight sector as a whole.
Customer: Freight wagon lessor
For a leasing company, SCI Verkehr GmbH evaluated a freight wagon portfolio. Focus for the report is an analysis of rail freight and freight wagon markets in Eastern Europe.
Customer: Financial institution
SCI Verkehr was commissioned by a financier to value a second-hand track tamping machine using the cost-based approach. Maintenance cycles and discounts were taken into account and value curves were created over the entire service life of the infrastructure vehicle.
Customer: International financing company
On behalf of an international credit institute, SCI Verkehr investigated the assumptions of an existing valuation system for rolling stock against the background of the regular "Basel 2" valuation. The review concerned the current and future situation in freight and passenger transport, as well as an assessment of the effects on the rolling stock asset values.
Customer: European Union
SCI Verkehr will carry out a cost-benefit analysis for the EU to evaluate the economic effects of interoperability guidelines for conventional transport. In particular, the consequences of interoperability for the railway industry will be identified and evaluated in cooperation with the AEIF.
Customer: LOG-IT Club e.V.
Since the foundation of the LOG-IT Club e.V. in November 2002, SCI Verkehr has conducted the business of the association. This includes the support of the association committees, account management, budgetary control and acceptance of new members.
Customer: Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung (Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning)
Optimisation and strengthening of regional passenger and freight railway traffic, indication of obstacles and indication of possible solutions in two model regions for the regional rail traffic, implementation of coaching processes for overcoming the obstacles, transfer of experience.
Customer: Transport authority
SCI Verkehr evaluated the economic feasibility of the selected bids for a transport authority in the context of a procurement of new urban transport vehicles. To this purpose, SCI Verkehr evaluated the tender documents and carried out a price benchmark to determine standard market prices for e-buses and their charging infrastructure.
Customer: Global player in the beverage industry
A leading company in beverage logistics operates its own large fleet of trucks. In order to increase the efficiency of the fleet, SCI Verkehr presented an analysis of the most important positive drivers as a first step. The second step was to change the most important basic conditions in terms of profitability.
Customer: Global player in the beverage industry
A global player in the beverage industry operates its own truck fleet in order to distribute its products in Germany. SCI Verkehr was commissioned to develop a strategy for the fleet´s further development, taking into account external influences (e.g. transport market) as well as internal structures. The process was closely coordinated with the customer and employee representatives and a joint implementation process was agreed upon.
Customer: Global player in the food industry
When centralising three workshops into one new site, our client had not implemented an active change management strategy. The processes and areas of work taken over from the old locations led to a significant drop in output at the new site. First of all, SCI Verkehr analysed and documented the existing workflows in a task force including management and the works council. At the same time, the team from SCI Verkehr identified and initiated necessary changes and oversaw the implementation on site. The aim of the project was to introduce staff to the new conditions in order to establish the adapted working areas and processes for the long term.
Customer: Railway transport company
A railway transport company is submitting a bid for a transport tender in northern Germany with the aim of making an attractive, innovative and cost-efficient offer for railway transport. The main contents include conception and technical support, editorial support as well as operative and organisational support.
Customer: Stadtwerke Schwerin / Mecklenburgbahn GmbH
Analysis of tender invitation, specification of performance profile and offer support for the public tender for several routes of the rail-bound passenger short-distance transport of the State Mecklenburg-Vorpommern within the scope of the regionalisation of the RPST; Start-up of operation of the Mecklenburg railways based on the 1st offer scheduled for June 2001.