Manufacturing footprint strategy: Making the right things in the right places

Learn about an approach to developing a manufacturing footprint strategy that has delivered transformational business benefits in a range of leading companies (including Caterpillar, Electrolux, Grundfos, IKEA, LEGO, Rolls-Royce and Schneider Electric). 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’.

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