Publications

The expertise of PA's leading manufacturing consultants is available in the publications below

PA's manufacturing consultants publish a broad spectrum of survey reports and other publications that have been generated through our insights and Thought Leadership initiatives. If you would like to request our publications, please click on the topics of interest below.

Latest publications

	Shifting gears in the automotive industry - PA's automotive capability
	The European Way - Competitive strategies to outperform Toyota in the next decade (Automotive manufacturing)

Survey reports and publications

	Avoiding the RFID money pit - Companies need to take a fundamentally different view of RFID trials if they are to realise value
	Breakthrough results for complex engineering projects - Virtual studios re-invent the project office
	Delivering business innovation in the manufacturing sector - The most innovative companies in their sectors earn double the shareholder returns
	Embedded software in automotive products - Tackling the complexities of in-car embedded systems
	Enhancing shareholder value by strategically managing collaboration
	Innovation excellence in an agile world. Doubling engineering effectiveness to enhance product development
	Licence to reduce costs - Product optimisation with best practice
	Making the impossible possible - Building a high performance supply chain
	Manufacturing industries newsletter - the latest edition of our communication for clients, including manufacturing industry insights and case studies
	Migration strategy - Changing capabilities in low-cost economies are constantly creating new opportunities for cost reduction and revenue growth
	PA survey - Transforming procurement: Leading organisations have realised only a quarter of the potential benefits from best practice procurement
	Product optimisation - Radical value growth through product redesign and value chain improvement
	Profit up – cost down: product optimisation to reduce product costs by 25%
	RFID: Two emerging challenges to progress: Comment from the Financial Times and PA Consulting Group
	Shifting gears in the automotive industry - PA's automotive capability
	Supply chain agility is the key to winning new business
	Supply chain takes pole position - how to take and maintain a leadership position in supply chain performance
	Survey: Removing the barriers to successful purchasing initiatives; a PA/CIPS research study 2003
	Sustaining competitive advantage by sourcing from the optimal location
	The European Way - Competitive strategies to outperform Toyota in the next decade (Automotive manufacturing)
	The RFID revolution has started and it will impact your business. Should you act or react?
	The yellow brick road to low-cost economies? Migration remains a challenge
	Three routes to successful supply chain improvement
	Using Formula 1 cost engineering to win the product design race
	Viewpoint on manufacturing - Setting the leadership agenda