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Engineering Services in 2024: The Market Outlook and Commercial Trends | Webinar

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Engineering Services in 2024: The Market Outlook and Commercial Trends

While the professional services market experienced a slowdown last year, engineering services emerged as a standout performer among other segments.

In this webinar, our analysts examined the past performance and future prospects of the engineering services sector. Participants gained valuable insights into the pricing outlook, commercial dynamics, market attractiveness, and evolving buyer expectations for engineering services. Finally, we explored emerging trends and future projections.

What questions did the webinar answer for the participants?

  • How did the engineering services market perform in 2023?
  • What are the latest enterprise objectives and recent commercial trends in this space?
  • How will the engineering services market shape out in 2024, and what can service providers do to improve win rates in deals?

Who should attend?

  • Service providers
  • Sales leaders
  • Pricing team members
  • Solution design and contracting leads
  • Engineering services leads
  • Analyst and advisory relations
  • Engineering department heads, Head of information systems and R&D
  • CPOs
  • Global sourcing heads, category managers, sourcing strategy professionals, vendor management leaders
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The Bumpy Road Ahead for US Automakers: Everything You Need to Know About the UAW Strike Disrupting the Industry | Blog

The ongoing strike by the United Auto Workers (UAW), the biggest union in the US automotive industry, has ramifications on auto production, costs, and supply chains. In this blog, we explore the impact of the UAW strike against GM, Ford, and Stellantis and look at who stands to win and lose.   

What the UAW is demanding

Union leaders representing the striking workers are negotiating for the following: 

  • Higher wages and other benefitsThe UAW has been asking for a 40% pay hike, reduced weekly work hours, revised pension schemes, improved healthcare benefits, and greater job security. The closure of factories to transition towards electric vehicles (EVs) is yet another factor driving the union’s demand for more protection for their workers
  • Reintroduction of cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) to help workers’ pay keep pace with inflation: During the 2008 financial crisis, autoworkers made concessions to automakers, including giving up COLA, which has not been reinstated. Over the past two decades, the average hourly wage for workers in the motor vehicle and parts manufacturing industry has declined by more than 20% when accounting for inflation
  • Equal benefits for all employees: The industry currently operates under a two-tier wage system, where new employees and temporary workers receive lower pay and benefits than their more experienced counterparts for performing the same tasks

After unsuccessful negotiations on these issues, UAW President Shawn Fain declared a rolling strike on Sept. 15, simultaneously targeting all three automakers. Since then, the consequences of these events have hit the entire US automotive industry. Let’s explore this further. 

Impact on production

Despite only three factories/plants being affected by the strike initially (GM’s assembly plant in Wentzville, Missouri; Ford’s site in Wayne, Michigan; and Stellantis’ site in Toledo, Ohio), the impact on production was stark when 13,000 workers walked off the job. Vehicle production by these automakers fell by 4,000 to 6,000 vehicles within a week of the UAW strike.

The three Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) argue that the proposed UAW contract would hinder their competitiveness in transitioning to EVs. If the UAW strike continues for more than four weeks, it could delay EV development plans and extend production schedules to 2024. This would further set back Ford, GM, and Stellantis, who already trail Tesla, Rivian, and Lucid Motors in the EV market.

Impact on costs 

The UAW proposal is unlikely to be accepted in full by any of the three automakers, considering they already pay higher wages (US$65 per hour) compared to competitors such as Tesla (US$45 per hour) and Toyota (US$55 per hour), which do not use union workers. Any further wage increases would likely cause GM, Ford, and Stellantis to pass on some costs to their customers, providing an advantage to other automakers who can price their vehicles lower.

The three auto OEMs contend that they must shift towards manufacturing EVs to comply with government regulations and maintain competitiveness in the automotive industry. However, this transition will require significant reinvestment of their profits, which will not be possible if they comply with the UAW’s demands unless the firms choose to incur more debt. 

Impact on supply chains

The UAW expanded its strike last week to 38 GM and Stellantis parts distribution centers as negotiations with these two manufacturers failed to make significant progress. The strategic move by the union to hit parts centers rather than production facilities will impact supply chains, making it harder for the companies to source new parts to repair and service vehicles that have already been sold. Production delays and strikes on parts centers will also cascade the impact onto Tier-1 suppliers, further increasing pressure on the three OEMs to reach an agreement with the UAW.

While the UAW’s demands may well be in good faith and result in improved working conditions for their members, the road ahead for the three impacted automakers seems nothing but bumpy. The true winner in this entire saga may well turn out to be Tesla, as it is poised to expand and enhance its market share in the EV segment.

Everest Group’s Engineering Research & Development (ER&D) services analysts will continue to follow the developments and provide updates. Please reach out to Nishant Udupa or Gokul K to discuss the UAW strike or other automotive industry topics.

Everest Group Unveils Its 2023 List of Top 50 Engineering Services Providers

Capgemini, HCLTech, and Alten top the list

 

DALLAS, September 12, 2023 — Everest Group today released the fifth annual edition of “Everest Group Engineering Services Top 50™,” a ranking of the world’s largest third-party providers of engineering services (ES). The ranking is based on revenues and year-on-year growth.

Engineering services include all activities that support the design, development, testing and management of products, both hardware and software.

Topping the 2023 ES Top 50 list are these 10 providers:

  1. Capgemini
  2. HCLTech
  3. Alten
  4. Tata Consultancy Services
  5. Accenture
  6. Akkodis
  7. Cognizant
  8. AFRY
  9. EPAM
  10. Wipro

 

Other highlights:
  • The report identifies the Top 10 companies based on revenue alone. The Top 5 are Capgemini, HCLTech, Tata Consultancy Services, Alten and Akkodis.
  • The report also identifies the Top 10 fastest growing ES companies. The Top 5 are Encora, Globant, Endava, GlobalLogic and Softserve.

 

*** Download a complimentary copy of the 2023 Everest Group ES Top 50 list and analysis ***

 

The Everest Group Engineering Services Top 50 represented 82% (more than US $60 billion) of the estimated US $73 billion in total outsourced spending in 2022. The global ES industry grew 11 to 11.5% between 2021 and 2022.

“ES providers have continued to boost their engineering capabilities and acquire companies to increase scale and gain access to new markets,” said Akshat Vaid, partner at Everest Group. “Outsourcing has increased from 2021, driven by a platformization wave, increased investments in connected and electric cars, and a rise in sustainability and green technology practices toward software and digital engineering.”

 

Key Updates on the Engineering Services Market

This year’s edition of the Everest Group Engineering Services Top 50 includes numerous additional research findings, including:

  • Identification of ES offerings by horizontal and vertical markets for each of the ES Top 50 providers
  • A recap of year-on-year market growth since 2020
  • Themes contributing to market growth in 2022
  • Comparison of market share and growth of broad-based versus pure-play service providers in the ES Top 50 List
  • Summary of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in 2022, including a list of key acquisitions
  • Regional comparison of growth rate for ES providers

 

About the Everest Group Engineering Services Top 50™

The Everest Group Engineering Services Top 50™ is a global list of the 50 largest third-party providers, based on their ES revenues and year-on-year growth. Revenues comprise 75% of the composite score used for ranking. Growth comprises 25% and has two sub-parameters: absolute growth (measured as change in ES revenue in US$ million and accounting for 12.5% of the composite score) and percentage growth (measured as percentage change in ES revenue and accounting for the final 12.5% of the composite score).

 

About Everest Group

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