- Metals and minerals being a basic sector, finds wider application and plays a key enabling role in economic development.
- Higher correlation between metal consumption and growth in GDP cannot be undermined, thereby making it important for all the stakeholders, be it miners, primary or secondary producers in the industry, to understand the impact and changing production- consumption behaviour as economic affluence sets in.
- AGR understands the dynamics of value chain and global trade very well and have conducted numerous studies in both ferrous, non-ferrous metal and minerals.
Coverage
Capabilities
- Industry Updates
- Financial Analysis
- Data analysis and Demand Forecast Models
- Cost Curve for Miners
- Developing thought papers
- Metal/Mineral Intensities
- Industry Landscaping & opportunity assessment
- Customer Satisfaction and Retention
- Customer Segmentation and Journey Mapping
Industry Updates
Clients have been seeking AGR’s expertise to develop real-time basis 'one-stop' crisp reports, to keep them abreast with the evolving market scenario and facilitate business planning. AGR has also pioneered the use of Interactive Analytical and Business Intelligence tools to develop industry reports like Market Insight Reports focusing on supply, Demand, Competition, Prices and Trade.
Financial Analysis
AGR has provided financial analysis support to investors and miners by conducting detailed NPV & sensitivity analysis for the upcoming mining projects and commodity cost curve models, helping them understand how the feasibility and payback period look like for their mine investments at various demand, cost and price scenarios.
Data analysis and Demand Forecast Models
AGR has helped clients forecast demand by region/country, based on analysis of the current market scenario and a statistical database of various parameters across metal intensive sectors, using multiple techniques to build a model that provides a forecast for these parameters.
Cost Curve for Miners
A commodity cost curve helps investors and companies understand how the cost of various plants/mine are lined up. This helps in evaluating Investment Plan, Production Plan, Price Support Levels, Pricing Risk, Profitability etc. AGR has developed such models for commodities like aluminium, uranium, borates, diamonds and many more.
Developing thought papers
With practical industry knowledge, ability to connect across the industry value chain and strong literature review capabilities, AGR has drafted relevant thought papers and suggested policy interventions requirement. AGR closely works with clients to support them in delivering right messages to the policymakers with highest quality data.
Metal/Mineral Intensities
AGR has conducted metal intensity studies across various metals and minerals for both developed and developing markets. We have also identified emerging trends that will impact change in intensities in various time frames. This has helped clients in measuring impact on capex, resource requirement, etc. and in taking timely decisions.
Industry Landscaping & Opportunity Assessment
Industries and customers are evolving regularly. This necessitates businesses to diversify, innovate and upgrade to stay relevant in the market. Be it metal sheets, rods, tubes or castings, AGR has the capability and understanding to conduct in-depth opportunity assessment across the globe.
Customer Satisfaction and Retention
AGR’s framework objectively assesses satisfaction, dissatisfaction level of customers and distribution partners. The framework covers competition to enable objective benchmarking across functions so that effective steps can be taken to identify irate, retain and also win back lost customers.
Customer Segmentation and Journey Mapping
A customer journey map enables to identify "moments of truth" that are particularly important for customers and their businesses. This helps in segmenting customers based on the needs and expectations to help clients devise specific marketing strategies for each customer group and derive better relationship value and satisfaction.
Assignment Examples
Metal & mineral Intensity
AGR has conducted intensity studies of metals (Steel, copper, Zircon, borates, etc.) in 100+ end-use products & sectors across geographies by interviewing 2,000+ industry experts
Cost Curve Models
AGR has helped the client understand the industry’s profitability by building cost curve models for commodities like aluminium, uranium, lithium, borates and diamonds
Opportunity assessment in copper
A large Indian conglomerate wanted to invest in the copper downstream. AGR scanned the Indian market for demand, supply and competition to shortlist relevant opportunities
Market attractiveness of commodities
A global mining company interested in adding new commodities to its portfolio sought AGR’s expertise to conduct market attractiveness study for 10 potential commodity markets
Automated dashboard
For a global miner, AGR developed dashboards to monitor freight trends in North America, to support their logistics strategy plan & negotiations with logistics partners
Mining project feasibility
To understand project feasibility, AGR has helped a client prepared NPV model along with sensitivity testing for an upcoming lithium-borate mine basis DFS report
Customer insight & action planning
For a large copper smelter AGR assessed customer advocacy among customers and non-customers vis-à-vis competitors to provide actionable insights & conduct workshops for its implementation
Metal recycling
Assessed various non-ferrous metal scrap globally, end-of Life of the metal-bearing goods, recycling ecosystem & processes, and drafted quality standards & vision documents
Knowledge Center
CASE STUDIES:
VALUE DELIVERED
- The steel major has made significant in-roads in the North-American off-highway market and is in the process of introducing more advanced products.
VALUE DELIVERED
- Facilitated the understanding of each company’s productivity performance in terms of incremental productivity as a percentage of the cost.
- The document acted as a framework to develop the strategy to improve productivity and to control the cost of production.
VALUE DELIVERED
- Detailed findings of the study were presented to the top management and the cross-functional teams across the business.
- It helped the client to understand in-depth and unbiased perception about their brand vis-à-vis competitors’ brands. It also helped the client to understand the strengths and the weakness of the brand.
- The workshop was also conducted with the key stakeholders to develop a detailed action plan. The action plan revolved around the key improvement areas.
- The action plan helped the client in gaining a competitive advantage over other leading competitors.
VALUE DELIVERED
- This project helped the client understand the current and future cross-commodity market trends.
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