CYLAD Australia

Address
89 Pirie Street
Adelaide SA 5000

Phone
Mobile: 0422 790 283

Website
cylad.com

Email
romain.bertin@cylad.com

ABN
11 625 411 734

Company Description
CYLAD is a strategy and management consulting firm with strong expertise and a proven track record in Aerospace & Defence. Our 150 consultants, data analysts and senior experts based in Australia, Europe and North America deliver more than 100 projects per year. We are dedicated to supporting Aerospace & Defence companies to develop, improve performance and accelerate projects by leveraging our expertise in growth strategy, program and bid management, business & digital transformation, and operational excellence.

Area of Business: CYLAD supports industrial companies in strategy, program and bid management, transformation, operational excellence, and smart data & analytics.

This company offers the following services

• Bid Preparation and Management

  
  Capability Contacts
  Romain Bertin: Cylad Australia Director
  Phone: +61 422 790 288
  Email: romain.bertin@cylad.com
  
  Capability Description
  CYLAD supports Aerospace & Defence companies in responding to tenders (including Defence tenders), from defining bid and pricing strategies compliant with CASG principles, to developing and submitting successful offers (including using ASDEFCON templates). Our end-to-end experience enhances our ability to deliver competitive and executable offers. We focus on defining an offer strategy and development plan that ensures customer 'winning factors', highlighting differentiators from competitors and making sure all technical aspects are correctly included within the offer.

• Consultancy Services

  
  Capability Contacts
  Romain Bertin: Cylad Australia Director
  Phone: +61 422 790 288
  Email: romain.bertin@cylad.com
  
  Capability Description
  Leveraging deep knowledge of the Aerospace & Defence sector, CYLAD supports Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), large companies and government agencies. We define growth strategies, implement sustainable transformations (business, digital, ESG, organisation and governance) and optimise performance and operations (Product Development, Workload-Workforce Management, Operations, Procurement & Supply-Chain, Project & Portfolio, Bid Management, Process Optimisation, and Cost & Cash Competitiveness). Our engagement formats are tailored to our client needs: diagnosis and recommendations, transformation and implementation, specialist expertise, and interim management.

• Consultancy Services - Finance

  
  Capability Contacts
  Romain Bertin: Cylad Australia Director
  Phone: +61 422 790 288
  Email: romain.bertin@cylad.com
  
  Capability Description
  CYLAD supports industrial companies to optimise direct costs and right-size indirect costs. We can address cost challenges encountered by defining cost reduction targets and associated financial and operational recommendations. We also advise on cost controlling best practices and support implementation via our smart data and analytics centre of excellence.
  For product management activities we can specifically address cost challenges encountered at each phase of the product life cycle, from product development (design-to-cost approach, secure investment optimisation), ramp-up and serial production (recurring cost convergence, inventory reduction), to ramp-down (lower break-even point when delivery volume reduces).

• Consultancy Services - LEAN Business Improvement

  
  Capability Contacts
  Romain Bertin: Cylad Australia Director
  Phone: +61 422 790 288
  Email: romain.bertin@cylad.com
  
  Capability Description
  Bringing perspectives and best practices from all industrial sectors, we support our clients in streamlining processes to enhance efficiency and reduce costs. Our teams are certified and trained in Lean & Agile methods and we use these in a pragmatic and down-to-earth approach to reach expected efficiency. We design and customise our Lean approach to each customer's needs by performing an as-is diagnosis alongside a set of standard analyses to ensure feasibility and sustainable results, based on hard and soft skills, within a continuous improvement framework.

• Consultancy Services - Organisational Transformation

  
  Capability Contacts
  Romain Bertin: Cylad Australia Director
  Phone: +61 422 790 288
  Email: romain.bertin@cylad.com
  
  Capability Description
  CYLAD has developed sound methodologies to drive organisational transformation. We assess the current organisation (communication, responsiveness, productivity, etc.) and provide insight from benchmarks (number of layers, span of control, etc.) to deliver tailored recommendations. We align with our clients on their purposes to design an appropriate organisation (e.g., use of zero-based organisation design principles). More broadly, we support companies to define a transformation plan (organisation, digital, ESG), set-up the monitoring platform and facilitate the implementation, supporting adoption of new practices by enhancing bi-directional collaboration from the shop floor to the CEO's office and across functions.

• Consultancy Services - Strategic Analysis

  
  Capability Contacts
  Romain Bertin: Cylad Australia Director
  Phone: +61 422 790 288
  Email: romain.bertin@cylad.com
  
  Capability Description
  Leveraging deep knowledge of the Aerospace & Defence sector, CYLAD supports Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), large companies and government agencies in defining tailored, data-driven strategies. We analyse markets, assess opportunities, benchmark against competitors and analyse supply chains and industrial footprints to develop growth plans. Our experience in tender processes enables us to provide valuable insights for bid strategies and pricing. We also support our clients on mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Our M&A value proposition addresses all phases of a deal process, from sourcing through to due diligence, sale and implementation of the post-merger integration (PMI).

• Consultancy Services - Workforce Planning

  
  Capability Contacts
  Romain Bertin: Cylad Australia Director
  Phone: +61 422 790 288
  Email: romain.bertin@cylad.com
  
  Capability Description
  CYLAD has defined and implemented resource management processes and solutions in all industrial sectors, covering multi-functional workforces with head counts in the hundreds and thousands. We assess the existing practices, analyse the criteria and drivers for workforce planning, and define the required process: review of the workforce (volume per skill set, availability), workload estimate from projects and business units (definition of a workload model), and allocation of the appropriate workforce to match the workload over time. We then benchmark digital tools to identify the most suitable one, or alternatively develop tailored solutions through our smart data and analytics centre of excellence.

• Project and Program Management

  
  Capability Contacts
  Romain Bertin: Cylad Australia Director
  Phone: +61 422 790 288
  Email: romain.bertin@cylad.com
  
  Capability Description
  CYLAD's expertise in project and program management extends from designing the architecture to the management of complex programs, covering scope, schedule, resourcing, earned value management and risk. We have worked on some of the largest programs in the Aerospace & Defence sector, from contract kick-off, Performance Measurement Baseline development, preparation of an Integrated Baseline Review, to execution support and performance reviews. Program Management is part of our core expertise and 50% of our activity aims at improving portfolio and project management. We support project leaders up-skill in multi-project and multifunction steering.