Expertise – sector-specific skills

X-PM’s partners and interim executives all have recognised industry expertise, skills that are continuously honed via our business-critical service lines: Purchasing & Supply-Chain, Finance,  Project Management, Human Resources, and Information Systems.   

The combination of tough economic conditions, mounting competition and the increasing scarcity of funding sources, makes managing companies and related risks even more complicated. More than ever before, financial departments must provide precise and rigorously accurate data on the company’s performance and the feasibility of its projects.

X-PM has built a broad range of services to assist companies in all areas of financial management, providing them with the support needed to bring the financial department of a subsidiary under control, improve its working capital requirement and cash flow, and help deploy new organisational models and tools.

Industrial groups are increasingly faced with global demands for systems or "turnkey” solutions, expressed in calls for tender.

As with project steering, responding to such tenders is a complicated process requiring a suitable organisation plan for the bid and/or implementation phase.

X-PM’s project management solution provides support in the form of highly-experienced managers along with procedures established by capitalising on past experience.

Improving company performance requires a deep understanding and mastery of the cultural and human factors required to foster confidence and thereby generate growth.

X-PM’s pool of over 150 seasoned human resources managers gives it the means to conduct audits of HR processes, reorganise HR operations and manage HR projects in three specific situations:

- Performance management: restoring management credibility, building a climate of confidence and cooperation with trade union and employee representatives, aligning pay policies with company strategy, etc;

- Expansion, Mergers & Acquisitions,changes in consolidation scope and disposals: creating the cultural and social conditions for change, managing the HR side of expansion and/or divestment projects, etc.;

- Downturns: implementing job protection schemes and alternative measures (provisional jobs and skills management planning, voluntary redundancy plans, site disposals, staff transfers within the group, etc.).

Optimising a company’s information systems, improving contractor management, and making decisions that suit the situation at hand before reaching a point of no return - both when choosing solutions and launching projects - requires expert skills. This means being able to steer, and in some cases turn around, major projects to ensure the expected results are attained while maintaining a firm grip on costs, quality and deadlines.

X-PM can put high-quality resources at the company’s disposal to mobilise in-house teams and focus on the company’s real needs.