Industry operations

Consumer products advisory

RSM has deep experience working with consumer businesses across sectors, including consumer goods, food and beverage, and retail and restaurant. Rising costs, inflationary concerns and wavering consumer confidence present daily challenges. Our practice offers go-to-market strategies through operational enablement and effectiveness. Our advisors help businesses navigate uncertainty, stay agile and embrace new market opportunities, including the following:

• Expanding business strategy and prioritizing the right market, channel, product and region
• Implementing digital transformation for greater market reach and value chain efficiencies
• Improving sales and commercial performance in key demographics
• Enhancing the customer experience, driven by omnichannel-capable technology solutions
• Focusing on emerging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning solutions that analyze supply chains and enable organizations to make data-driven decisions
• Addressing changing workforce dynamics and focusing on talent retention and productivity improvement
• Aligning environmental, social and governance strategy to business strategy

Consumer goods

Food and beverage

Retail

FI advisory

The RSM financial institution (FI) advisory team strives to enhance our clients’ customer and employee experience. We accomplish this through digital transformation, supported by evolving technology that is deployed securely and in accordance with regulatory requirements. We have extensive experience in lending and deposit operations, digital banking, technology selection and contracting, organizational alignment, and data strategies. RSM has maintained a national FI practice for more than 25 years, and we serve over 3,000 financial services companies nationwide. We believe an industry-focused approach is essential to understanding the unique operating aspects of our clients’ organizations. Our management consulting FI advisory practice has served a wide variety of financial institutions, ranging from community banks and credit unions to regional and global banking organizations.

Financial institutions

Government contracting advisory

The U.S. federal government is the world’s largest buyer of goods and services, providing substantial business opportunities for organizations across every industry and business sector. It imposes complex cost accounting and regulatory compliance requirements on its contractors and grant recipients. Our government contracting practice helps government contractors and grant recipients improve compliance, cost accounting practices and business processes in a heavily regulated environment.

Health care advisory

The RSM health care advisory team helps health care organizations tackle today’s most pressing financial and operational challenges. Our comprehensive, data-driven approach—encompassing revenue cycle optimization, supply chain efficiency, clinical operations enhancement and reimbursement strategies—delivers tailored solutions designed to enhance operational efficiency, support change management and bolster financial health. By leveraging advanced analytics, AI and innovative strategies, we guide organizations toward sustainable improvements in net revenue and cost reduction. Our industry-focused approach has the goal of empowering health care organizations to achieve sustainable margin transformation and thrive in health care’s new reality.

Industrials advisory

RSM’s industrials advisory practice helps industrials organizations address and improve their performance through the most challenging business cycles. We serve clients across multiple sectors including manufacturing, chemicals, automotive, aerospace, distribution, renewables, oil and gas, and power and utilities. Our goal is for industrials organizations to build their capabilities today to meet their vision for tomorrow.

Manufacturing

Energy

Life sciences advisory

RSM’s life sciences industry advisory practice leverages extensive industry experience and functional capabilities to encourage innovation for our clients in the biopharmaceutical, medtech and life sciences services sectors. We focus on market access, commercial operations, supply chain and operations, finance and accounting, and information technology.

We understand the importance of a well-defined strategic plan as the foundation for sustainable success. Our team supports clients in the development and execution of customized strategies that align with their unique goals, and we offer a range of specialized services tailored to the needs of our clients throughout the business lifecycle. In addition, we offer support on an ad hoc, monthly, quarterly or annual basis, and our capabilities encompass areas such as government pricing calculation support, state pricing transparency, distribution, market access, chargeback management, commercial and government rebate management, and gross-to-net services.

Life sciences

TMT advisory

RSM has deep experience across the technology, media and telecommunications sectors. Our advisory practice offers go-to-market strategies through operational enablement and effectiveness based on industry-leading innovations. We have extensive experience in operational value creation, including business analysis, process and performance improvement, merger integration, business unification, and continuous performance improvement. We specialize in aligning front-of-house and back-of-house operations, positioning the business strategy with operations, and tying it together with data and reporting to drive business decision making. Our key focus areas include channel strategy and enablement, product pricing and packaging, customer experience, sales operations, customer success operations, finance operations, and data strategy.

Technology

Media and entertainment

Telecommunications