Through attending this course you will learn how to strategically review your global network of factories and supply partners, leading to decisions on how to reconfigure a supply network to deliver real business impacts in term of cost, customer service, resilience and sustainability.
What you will learn:
- A unique, leading approach to help your organisation design and orchestrate strategic reconfiguration of your global manufacturing and supply footprint.
- Case studies of manufacturing footprint transformation using this approach, which led to significant business benefits (in one case, the company delivered $50m in annual savings, as well as reinvesting in process technology differentiation and developing leading positions in growth markets).
- Typical risks and barriers that leading companies have experienced in footprint transformation (and how these can be overcome).
- Practical strategy frameworks for building a comprehensive and compelling footprint strategy that combine the optimum mix of qualitative and quantitative analysis.
- Experiences and recommendations on how to develop and implement footprint strategy to align with cross-business, cross-geographic and cross-functional perspectives.
Outline:
Session 1 – WHY: STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT
Using roadmapping tools to align footprint strategy with business and technology trends.
Session 2 – WHAT: MAKE-OR-BUY
Using make-or-buy tools to develop manufacturing core competence and supply strategies.
Session 3 – WHERE: GLOBAL NETWORK DESIGN
Formulating network design rules, developing and evaluating future footprint scenarios.
Session 4 – HOW: STRATEGY INTO ACTION
Designing the transition storyboard and developing capabilities in ‘manufacturing mobility’.
