Industry-focused research and analysis is the hallmark of AMR Research. Our clients—which include most of the world's leading manufacturers, consumer products companies, life sciences firms, and retailers—put absolute trust in our advice. Our experts average 15 years of experience, and include former CIOs and VPs of supply chain who have led implementation teams and designed manufacturing processes.

Automotive
Manufacturers face mounting pressure to become globally and locally competitive while shifting to a lean, responsive, innovative business model. With bottom lines shrinking, changing consumer needs and environmental policies, and business model risk and complexity ever increasing, the value of a solid technology foundation to support operations excellence and profitable growth, insight into best practices, and how leaders are succeeding is impossible to overstate.

Aerospace and Defense
Manufacturers face mounting pressure to become globally and locally competitive while shifting to a lean, responsive, innovative business model that leverages a network of partners on a global scale. Managing programs to reduce the cost, schedule, and technical risks of complex engineered solutions must be executed within a highly regulated environment. As a result, the value of solid technology foundation and enterprise architecture to support operations excellence, value chain operations, and compliance is critical. AMR Research’s insights and analyses into best practices, measurement strategies, and how and why leaders are succeeding across this and other verticals to achieve profitable growth is valuable to any organization or leadership team.

Industrial
Manufacturers face mounting pressure to become globally competitive while shifting to a lean, responsive, and innovative business model. With bottom lines shrinking and business model complexity ever increasing, the value of a solid technology foundation and insight into how leaders are succeeding is impossible to overstate.

Consumer Products
Consumer products manufacturers that have increased their demand visibility perform substantially better in three key areas: perfect order, inventory carrying days, and cash-to-cash cycle days. Our coverage helps these companies not only understand the merits and weaknesses of industry advances, including point of sale and RFID, but how to build a business case for or against them.

Life Sciences
Executives within the life sciences sectors struggle in a number of important areas: sustaining growth and margins, delivering successful new products faster, sourcing and manufacturing globally, keeping up with stricter compliance regulations, and continued business integration. Our research helps executives understand the transformation in business and IT needed to ultimately maximize profitability, improve competitive advantage, and increase customer satisfaction.

Retail
Competitive pressure, apathetic customers, and economic uncertainty cause retailers to strive to find options to stand out from the crowd. Retailers that effectively turn demand signals into consumer-centric action using demand-driven retailing will not just compete, they’ll win.

High-Tech
The increasing pace, complexity, and costs of product innovation are putting increased pressure on high-tech manufacturers, and small missteps can cost them dearly in terms of profits and valuation. Successful companies must figure out how to manage a global virtual organization, from their distribution channel partners to overseas contract manufacturers, to respond instantly to changes in demand.

Chemical and Process
Chemical and process manufacturers are suppliers to every downstream industry, but with very limited visibility into true demand and limited ability to accommodate unforeseen demand volatility in expensive and inflexible manufacturing assets. The real innovators are segmenting their services and implementing price management strategies in order to move up the value chain and regain margins.