Development of a group-wide raw materials strategy
Retail companies
2024
The German retail sector finds itself confronted with a variety of internal and external factors that can have significant impact on their business activities. These factors are diverse and go from regulatory requirements and climate change consequences to geopolitical conflicts.
From the perspective of these complex challenges our client saw a need to be proactive and is thus endeavouring to develop a transparent, well-founded and group-wide concept for the identification of its critical raw materials. On this basis, field comprehensive goals and a standardised action framework are to be defined. We have supported the client from the development stage right through to implementation.
We developed an implementation concept that enables the systematic and regular identification of strategic important raw materials. This concept is based on the regulatory development of the materiality of raw materials and the availability of data.
In collaboration with our client, we identified a set of driving forces and topics relevant to the company’s availability, economic efficiency and sustainability. To illustrate the resulting opportunities and risks we developed a set of 30 quantitative and qualitative indicators. These indicators form the heart of the concept and enable a comparison of various raw materials, from agricultural commodities through to industrial raw materials, in terms of priority. These indicators were determined for a selection of 100 industry relevant raw materials, identified by the client.
The result of our work is an interactive web tool, which provides our client with a ranking of their prioritised raw materials for various scenarios that can be filtered by business unit. The resulting findings should serve as a basis for the development of raw material specific strategies.
Latest update: 05.04.2024
Project Manager
Senior Project Manager
In the 2024 Federal Research and Innovation Report (BuFi) the Federal Government presents their current research and innovation policy goals and measures. Once again, Prognos assisted the BMBF in the preparation of the report.
The European Cluster Conference is a key element of cluster collaboration. It focuses on political priorities, the exchange of best practices and practical contacts across a comprehensive EU-wide network.
Mechanical engineering, the automotive industry, pharmaceuticals: In which sectors is Germany still a leader? On behalf of the Handelsblatt, we examined how successfully Germany is holding its own against its international competitors.
The Federal Government regularly presents their current research and innovation policy goals and measures in the Federal Research and Innovation Report. Prognos assists the BMBF in the prep-aration of the report.
Prognos and partners are developing conclusions for the further development of the European structural funds after 2027 by integrating relevant stakeholders.
Creatives in the countryside? As scientific partner in the model project KreativLand Baden-Württemberg, Prognos examined the status quo, the opportunities and the challenges facing creatives living and working outside of the urban centres and regions.
Where does Germany stand on its path to digital administration? The Trendreport 2024 gives an update and recommendations for the digitalisation of the public administration system.
The electromobility of the future will interact with other intelligent systems. But for this to be possible digital technologies will have to be standardised. The study shows in which areas standardisation is particularly relevant and how standards are established.
Once again, Prognos has compiled the Innovation Index Germany on behalf of the Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications. The index quantifies the impact the expansion of Germany’s digital infrastructure has had on its innovation strength.
The feature dossier addresses which opportunities and challenges the metaverse might hold for the sub-markets of the cultural and creative industries.
Prognos is one of the oldest economic research centres in Europe. Founded at the University of Basel, Prognos experts have been conducting research for a wide range of clients from the public and private sectors since 1959 – politically independent, scientifically sound.