Manufacturing

Objective

Implement a repeatable decision framework that weighs total-landed-cost, capability, capital intensity, IP protection, quality, agility, and geopolitical risk. Provide clear recommendations on insourcing, outsourcing, or footprint shifts, including ramp-up plans, exit/entry costs, and change-management implications. Refresh the decision as demand, technologies, or market conditions evolve.

Benefits for our clients

• Informed, cost-effective production decisions
• Reusable framework for future Make vs Buy assessments
• Strategic insight to reduce internal complexity

Objective

Apply a multi-criteria country-selection model that scores cost, logistics, tariff exposure, incentives, political risk, talent availability, and ESG profile. Build risk-adjusted scenarios and select best-fit countries for each category or product family. Mobilize transitions with detailed change plans covering tooling moves, supplier onboarding, regulatory approvals, and continuity of supply.

Benefits for our clients

• Country ranking based on detailed analysis
• Implementation-focused, with benefits locked in through mobilization

Objective

Establish a resilient outsourced manufacturing strategy that aligns cost transparency, capacity reservations, and joint continuous-improvement targets with strategic contract manufacturers. Cover the end-to-end flow—BOM teardown, DfM/DfT workshops, site audits, multi-round negotiations, and launch governance—to protect quality and time-to-market while ensuring multi-region supply options.

Benefits for our clients

• Negotiation-ready EMS cost visibility
• Cost savings via better cost insights
• Continuous process and commercial improvements

Objective

Optimize equipment and tooling investments across the full asset life cycle—from business case and requirements through RFx, negotiation, installation, and ramp-up. Use digital-twin reviews and total-cost-of-ownership models to balance performance, reliability, and maintainability. Embed performance guarantees, service levels, and regulatory/ESG compliance into contracts and track post-install outcomes (OEE, MTBF, energy use).

Benefits for our clients

• Enhanced operational efficiency in response to market/ regulatory demands
• Better financial alignment
• Supply chain process improvement

Objective

Create parametric and bottom-up cost models that decompose parts and assemblies into material, labor, overhead, logistics, and margin. Link models to CAD/BOM data and market indices to provide a defensible “should-pay” baseline for negotiations, budget approvals, and supplier development. Feed insights into design-to-cost decision gates to prevent cost creep before tooling.

Benefits for our clients

• Clarity on cost drivers and inputs
• Supplier cost benchmarks
• Informed sourcing & negotiation decisions

Objective

Run cross-functional VA/VE sprints that challenge specifications, materials, and manufacturing routes from concept through series production. Apply function-cost mapping, platforming, and substitution to improve manufacturability, sustainability, and serviceability without compromising performance. Involve suppliers early to surface innovation and accelerate change adoption. Run data-driven analysis on product assortment and bill of materials to quantify the impact of product complexity and identify opportunities for simplification.

Benefits for our clients

• Lower direct costs & improved margins
• Production scale efficiencies
• Design-stage cost control, not reactive fixes at manufacturing stage

Objective

Use network-design modelling and scenario-based risk analysis to determine the optimal footprint and product placement across plants, distribution centres, and logistics flows. Balance cost, service, risk, and carbon across the value chain by evaluating logistics lanes, inventory policies, trade incentives, and regulatory constraints. Deliver scalable ramp-up paths with contingencies to maintain service levels during transitions.

Benefits for our clients

• Data-led plant selection based on cost, risk, and strategy
• Scalable production ramp-up
• Efficient, operationally feasible supply chain options
• Greater resilience through data-driven risk mitigation
• Cost savings delivered through competitive procurement and network optimization 

Objective

Develop and implement a S&OP process that aligns forecasted customer demand with production capacity and resources to create a unified, balanced, and executable production plan, driving improved collaboration, reduced costs, and top-line growth.  Provide clear recommendations on organizational needs, business process design, and change management, with hands-on implementation support. Assess, recommend, and deliver processes & tools to support better demand, supply, and production planning.

Benefits for our clients

• Top line revenue growth by reducing lost sales and improving customer experience
• Minimize operational costs through improved planning processes
• Enhanced collaboration in multifunctional teams, tying execution to long-term strategy

Objective

Leverage proven techniques to balance inventories for raws, finished goods, & spare parts. Work in parallel to network optimization to maximize the value of your manufacturing and distribution footprint. Evaluate the impact on working capital, considering payment terms and contract adherence. Develop and implement playbooks and KPI dashboards to drive acceptance and adherence to the new inventory strategy. 

Benefits for our clients

• Sustainable cash release and working capital reduction
• Improved customer delivery performance and shortened lead times
• Reduced expedited freight and manufacturing costs
• Minimize risk of obsolescence

Objective

Rapidly expand qualified supply options through analytics-led market scans, RFIs/RFPs, and capability deep-dives. Validate technical fit, capacity, quality systems, cybersecurity, and ESG credentials up front, then prove performance via pilot orders and PPAP/FAI as needed. Maintain dynamic shortlists to inject competitive tension and accelerate NPIs.

Benefits for our clients

• Quick identification of supply options and potential savings
• RFP-driven validation of capabilities
• Quality and compliance checks embedded upfront