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MP CONSULTING is a global consultancy services company on business and technologybased in Italy, specialized in executing projects in fields that have become indispensablefor preserving competitiveness of public and private companies, such as:

•Engineering and Manufacturing•Strategic Planning and Business Consulting•Business Innovation and Sustainable Development•Business Solutions and Technology

Moreover, the business model proposed by MP CONSULTING, exploits the synergiescreated between the different consulting fields, offering its clients capabilities of a multidisciplinary team with a vocation for international projects, amalgamatingknowledge, experience, technology and innovation.

MP CONSULTING counts on a team of more than 80 professionals; are Graduatedand/or Engineers with more than 5 years of experience in the development of consultancy activities with major companies

MP CONSULTING has developed projects for customers in Europe, North and SouthAmerica, Russia, China and India

Company Profile

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MP CONSULTING was born with a vision and a series of values that translated into the organizational model and the corporate culture that turned us into one of the mostattractive companies of the sector for the personal and professional development of consultants, managers, and partners.

From our beginning, we managed our experience, giving support to our colleagues and helping our clients by giving them value added all the time, convinced that only being 100% efficient we shall be able to make the difference in a market characterized by the globalization and concentration of our sector.

Right now, after almost 5 years of activity, we consolidated our relation with a group of clients, consultants, managers, and partners who loyally support our company

Among the most relevant clients included in MP CONSULTING’s portfolio we may findCOMAU, SINERIA, FIAT GROUP AUTOMOBILES, MIKRON Group, FONDMETAL, WANFENG, VITALI, TOORA, LUMSON, etc., which allows us positioning especially in the Industry and Services sector.

Company Profile

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Company Profile

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Today, it is as important to do the right planning as it is to be ready for permanentchange and for developing the necessary capacities that would us to adapt to a changingenvironment in economic, legal, political, and technological terms.

MP CONSULTING takes its clients along on this path “to excellence”, combining a solidexperience in the sector with a high level of familiarity with the market standards, methodologies, and tools, in order to permanently assure the product quality, operationalexcellence, and business objectives.

In this sense, the answer of MP CONSULTING ’s Business Consulting Division to the market needs takes shape as an integrated assortment of services structured into 3 areas:•Business & Organisation•Operation•Quality

Business Organisation

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The main features of the approach we apply to our projects, which, according to ourexperience, is guarantee of success, are:•managing our projects applying an practical approach, aimed at getting solid results in the short term.•creating work teams where the client’s staff is invited to participate,to receive a true know-how transfer.•bringing in a global vision of the projects, going through the whole value chain of ourservices, from the consulting over the implementation to the maintenance of the definedsolutions.

Business Organisation

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MP CONSULTING participates in the market through its Information and Communication Technologies Division, offering top-level know-how, verified methodologies, and innovative solutions to the companies intending to improve their management and information, their position in competition, and to increase their value.

This is achieved by means of a harmonic integration of: •Knowledge of the sectors •Focus on business processes •Technological skills

On the other hand, our methodologies, our professionals, and our knowledge and experience in the implementation and integration of the most important computer toolsexisting in the market allow us to help our clients during the complete implementationcycle of the defined solutions

IT Solutions

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IT Solutions

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Innovation and sustainable development are two long-term management strategies thatallow us to consolidate the value of ideas with the knowledge of the status of the situation(such as local environment diagnosis or technological monitoring at the company level), asa response to the growing demand for differentiation and quality.

MP CONSULTING's Innovation and Sustainable Development Division counts on aninternational team that offers its clients and partners its experience in managing projectsfocussed on developing innovation and integrating sustainability criteria.

The response of MP CONSULTING's Innovation and Sustainable Development Division togrowing and improving the competitiveness of our clients takes shape in an integratedassortment of services, structured into 3 large areas:•Innovation•Research & Development•Susteinable Development

The final objective is to develop new or adapted products and services as a response to the growing demand for differentiation our clients are claiming from us and which would allowus to integrate the new technologies in our business sphere when the moment has come.

Innovation and sustainable development

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Innovation and sustainable development

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How we work?

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The experience gained at each of the projects carried out up to this moment and the business know-how thus accumulated are the cause why MP CONSULTING isespecially focussed on companies of the Industry and Services sector

MP CONSULTING is aiming its efforts at all companies, regardless of the economicsector they belong to, as may be seen from its references; but it is also true that the experience acquired from the projects carried out up to this moment and the experienceand business know-how thus obtained induced MP CONSULTING to concentrate especially on companies of the Industry and Services sector, whose activity has to do with the following sectors:

Public Sector: Local Administration (County Councils and Town Councils) Public Administration (Communitarian, National and Provincial)

Private Sector: Automobile (OEM's and Tier 1 and Tier 2 Suppliers) Chemical and PharmaceuticalManufacturing Professional Services

Our experiences

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The automotive sector went through a rough economic situation, which stronglymodified its frame of action. The globalization propitiated a strong growth of new markets, such as India, China, Russia or Eastern Europe, caused by the presenceof a strong demand and foreign investments. These young economies are increasing their world-wide market share, while the traditional automobile manufacturing companies are having some problems in confronting new competitors: the average EBIT margin in the last years was 4.5%, much lower ifcompared to other sectors of the manufacturing industry. The main problems pointed out by the original equipment manufacturers (OEM) are a lower-than-foreseen sales volume, higher material costs, increasing costs of marketing campaigns, and delays in new products (time-to-market). On the other hand, the original equipment suppliers (OES) are putting the emphasis on problems concerning the management of the relations with manufacturers and the development of an efficient supply chain management (SCM). Knowledge is becoming one of the key aspects for managing this change and allows the companies to generate the necessary innovation, identified as the driving force for survival. But naturally, innovation is linked to the flexibility of the business model, which can be developed only applying a firm discipline and a verystrong business leadership

Our experiences

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Thanks to the experience in international projects gathered over the last years, MP CONSULTING can offer all the required know-how and support, as well as a collectionof ruling principles and methodologies along the whole automobile value chain, in order to: •Create and organize a new, flexible, and successful automobile company, or introducing a project change based upon a preliminary strong costs reduction project (cost calculation). •Manage the product portfolio, the data lifecycle, and the product quality to considerably reduce time-to-market. •Manage the company’s Operations and splitting the company’s activity into its components to act as an aggregation for smaller companies, thus to simplify the activity-based cost control process. •Specialize the company, with a focus on its main advantages, and relying on the strategic and business partners for closing gaps and getting the opportunity of exploiting new areas.•Simplify the search for business opportunities, thus to make their management simpler and easier. •Unify the interactions between people, processes, and technology in the company.

Our experiences : Automotive

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Our experiences : Automotive

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The industries in the chemical sector are facing the necessity of intensifying theirinvestments in research, development and innovation, having to optimize the result of their industrial and logistic processes, to manage the high cost pressure derived fromrising raw material prices and market globalization at the same time, without forgettingthe client management and the public opinion.The knowledge acquired by MP CONSULTING enables our company to define and validate vertical solutions for improving and optimizing business processes by identifyingthe appropriate system requirements and by choosing the most technological solution.In this sense, through the integrated approach to the business processes offered to the market by MP CONSULTING, based upon the necessary alignment of business and technology, together with the experience and know-how of the sector, a specific solutionhas been defined for the Chemicals sector, which will help the companies of this sectorto compare their business processes with the best market practices and align them withthe related technology.MP CONSULTING makes solution available to the companies of the sector, solutionsbased upon reference models of business processes and integrated in the SAP (ifnecessary), together with the consulting services for defining and implementing the solution and the interfaces to other systems, such as the Logistic Engineering System (LES) and the Manufacturing Execution System (MES).

Our experiences : Chemical & Pharma

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Our experiences : Chemical & Pharma

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The clear trend towards internationalization of the manufacturing companies, both as tosearching for new markets and looking for production sites with lower costs, creates a new framework for these companies, which are facing up to more and more competition and toa higher complexity in management due to the different international environments theyare moving in. The industries of the manufacturing sector are confronting a growing costpressure, mainly derived from the new global competition they have to deal with; so theyneed to permanently improve their business processes in order to become ever more efficient, agile, and competitive organizations. The added complexity of delocalisation, the new processes and global competitors meanthat the main challenge for the manufacturing companies consists in managing these new dynamics correctly by using more powerful, simple and efficient strategies and tools, thusto achieve higher productivity levels and to be able to bring to the market better productsat an appropriate cost in less timeIn this sense, through the integrated approach to the business processes offered to the market by MP CONSULTING, based upon the necessary alignment of business and technology together with the experience and know-how of the sector, a specific solutionhas been defined for the manufacturing sector, which will help the companies of this sectorto compare their business processes with the best practices of the market and align themwith the related technology.

Our experiences : Manufacturing

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MP CONSULTING makes solutions available to the companies of the sector, solutionsbased upon reference models of business processes and integrated in SAP (if necessar), together with the consulting services for defining and implementing the solution and the interfaces to other systems, such as the Logistic Engineering System (LES) and the Manufacturing Execution System (MES).

Our experiences : Manufacturing

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MP Consulting give solutions to design of a product requires in collaboration of engineers from many fields. These engineers apply the sciences of physics and mathematics to find suitable solutions to problems or to make improvements to the status quo. These engineers have knowledge of relevant sciences for their design projects. If multiple options exist, engineers weigh different design choices on their merits and choose the solution that best matches the requirements. The crucial and unique task of is to identify, understand, and interpret the constraints on a design in order to produce a successful result. It is usually not enough to build a technically successful product; it must also meet further requirements.Constraints may include available resources, physical, imaginative or technical limitations, flexibility for future modifications and additions, and other factors, such as requirementsfor cost, saferty, marketability, productibility. By understanding the constraints, engineersderive specifications for the limits within which a viable object or system may be producedand operated.Also our engineers use their knowledge of approach of a problem solving to allows toanalyze it and to test potential solutions. We use: prototyoping, scale moduling, simulations, desctructive tests and stress tests.

Our experiences : Engineering

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Engineering aproach include a riskanalysis in the designs to reduce the risk of unexpected failure. One of the most widely used tools in the project is computer aided design (CAD) to create 3D models, 2D drawings, and schematics of their designs. CAD together with Digital Mockup (DMU) and CAE software such as finite element method analysis or analytic element method allows to create models of designs that can be analyzed without having to make expensive and time-consuming physical prototypes.These allow products and componentsto be checked for flaws; assess fit and assembly; study ergonomics; and toanalyze static and dynamiccharacteristics of systems Access and distribution of all this information isgenerally organized with the use of Product Data Management software

Our experiences : Engineering

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MP CONSULTING’s Turnkey solution is the suggestion we give to our customer duringbusiness transaction between different entities are responsible for setting up a plant or a part of it. A complex project involving infrastructure facility, a chemical plant, or a refinerydemands expertise which is not available with a single firm. The owner organizes the overall project with a turnkey firm and 'receives' the project on its completion and can then start to operate it. The 'agents' of the owner are: the principal engineering firm, the licensor (if any),service subcontractors (e.g. electrical contractor) and the suppliers. Theremay be several contracts drawn up by the principal engineering firm but they only identifythe latter as the recipient of the services. The principal contract is the one that binds the owner and principal engineering firm.A turnkey business is a business that includes everything you need to immediately start running the business.Turnkey operation is “a product or service which can be implemented or utilized with no additional work required by the buyer (just by 'turning the key')".A business that is being sold as a turnkey business would include tangibles such asinventory and equipment through intangibles such as a previously established reputationand goodwill.

Our experiences : Engineering

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The most common type of business sold as a turnkey business is a franchise. In the case of franchises, a turnkey business could/couldn’t includes a building that has been constructed to the franchise's specifications, and an exclusive territory.We suggest to entrepreneurs to consider a buying turnkey business with a due diligenceanalysis and be sure they know exactly what a particular turnkey operation includes; not allturnkey businesses are created equal!A turnkey project could involve the following elements depending on its complexity:a project-consultancy firm is often involved but it is required to stay independent of the turnkey engineers and be responsible only to the owner - a watchdog so to speak. The project-consultancy firm has access to all sections of the infrastructure or plant (asapplicable) but cannot direct the staff involved.The turnkey-contractor furnishes a wide variety of and accepts several liabilities. These include :Turnkey projects can also be extended, known as 'turnkey plus', where there is perhaps a small equity interest by the engineering firm or the main suppliers to ensure allegianceduring the initial operational phases. Once the turnkey phase is over and the engineering firm receives the 'completion certificate', (from the owner), the latter will work independently or with the licensor (if any).

Our experiences : Engineering