Headline: Well-designed and efficient networks
Markets and economies develop at an extremely dynamic pace in the course of globalisation. Successful companies are
able to respond quickly to these changes.
A production network may need to be redesigned for many reasons:
able to respond quickly to these changes.
A production network may need to be redesigned for many reasons:
- Development of new markets
- Cost pressure caused by changing market conditions
- Change in the production depth
- Establishment of competence centres, establishment of centralised production facilities
- Purchase of new factories and facilities in the course of acquisitions and fusions
- Consolidation of sites
- Need to increase the “local content”
Such measures always involve considerable intervention with regard to the interests and independence of existing sites. Our support and assistance during these processes play a key role in objectifying alignment, planning, and implementation strategies and in developing solutions geared towards creating an optimal network.
Range of services
Range of services
- Analysis of the production structures and locations with respect to the underlying production and logistics processes as well as the supply chain
- Determination of the strategic objectives, e.g. related to increasing efficiency and productivity, cutting costs, market expansion, customer service, real net output ratio (degree of added value)
- Development and evaluation of options such as regionalisation, centralisation, consolidation or relocation
- Global location scouting along with analysis and evaluation of potential locations
- Allocation of the tasks in the production network for new and existing sites
- Profitability and feasibility analyses for the new production network
- Planning of the development strategy for progressive realisation of the production network
- Transfer of the production network planning to the planning and realisation of production sites
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