Industry

M2P’s services are anchored in the Travel, Transport & Logistics industry. Experience as well as observations indicate that this industry has been characterized by new trends such as deregulation, privatization, consolidation and overall exponential growth.

M2P is committed to four core sectors: air transport, maritime, rail transport and logistics, providing Management Consulting, Professional Services and IT Services. Each sector is occupying its own traits and challenges, facing growing competitive pressure and constraints. Apart from that, M2P Professional Services division provides its support to many other business sectors such as finance, retail, automotive and utilities.

Competition within the rail transport industry is increasing in particular due to new entrants and the opening of the international markets. Thus rail companies are forced to improve cost effectiveness and service quality at the same time. The formation of IT strategies as well as mobility considerations are to be taken into account. M2P’s Management Consulting delivers value that is created through innovative ways ensuring project delivery within time and budget while constantly reducing costs and ensuring the highest quality.  

Business within the shipping industry however is more inconstant, showing cyclical overcapacity which needs to be handled effectively. Relevant issues to consider herein are especially the reduction of bunker costs, fleet planning optimization, container utilization management, freight optimization and process as well as hub control.

In turn, logistics requires a string between providing traditional transport services and optimizing global supply chains. Process optimization, network planning and the reduction of costs are notable measures to adopt in this context. M2P’s IT Services assists clients in developing diverse business scenarios that help them to be innovative while M2P’s Professional Services provides methodological skills and stable solutions through the combination of project proficiency and technological excellence as well as efficient requirements management.

M2P is thus covering the needs every single sector is distinguished by.

In order to provide an insight into M2P’s expertise and scope of projects, M2P’s focus established within aviation is illuminated in the following.

Aviation is considered to be one of the sectors mostly affected by the named changes. Higher mobility as well as new IT developments are only an extract out of several movements within this highly globalized and ever-changing industry. As M2P has a - historically grown - focus on this industry, it has worked on numerous challenging issues for airlines, airports / ground handlers as well as aviation service providers.

In this particular context, different industry sectors have been supported by M2P, such as airline flight operations, passenger services, aircraft maintenance and overhaul, airport operations, air cargo, financials and information technology. Every industry sector is in turn divided into functional areas, where M2P has delivered numerous projects.

Within the framework of IT, projects in technology evaluation and quality management were delivered while concluded for example in aircraft maintenance and overhaul production planning & control. In line with M2P’s IT Services, several check-in related projects were completed successfully such as the design and implementation of a passenger focused check-in application as well as a bar coded boarding pass within the check-in infrastructure. Likewise, M2P supported the implementation of an outsourced service-based solution to replace an existing airline ticketing system.

This entire experience is reflected in the following graph, illustrating M2P’s competence within the industry:

According to M2P’s three business areas, various sophisticated and leading-edge consulting services are deployed in order to ensure delivery within required demands. Those range from health checks and strategy and benchmark studies to process modelling and reengineering, requirement definition and solution assessment, specification and functional design, legacy system replacement, test management and test execution, migration & cutover support as well as feasibility studies.

Several assignments coming under M2P’s further core sectors that the company is committed to are in the starting blocks, waiting to be approached. Additionally as mentioned before, M2P Professional Services has started to provide its support portfolio to different business sectors due to its extensive wealth of experience and consulting expert knowledge.

M2P is ideally suited and well prepared to meet the challenges coming along while constantly keeping on delivering measurable and significant value in order to fulfil the client’s needs.