Manufacturing Footprint Optimization | White Paper

Highlights

Manufacturing Footprint Optimization (MFO) is the 'winning strategic approach to improve on a global scale the efficiency and effectiveness of a company's Operations.
This in-depth study, prepared by our Knowledge Office, will explore the basic principles, operational steps and benefits obtained enriched with success stories.

What is Manufacturing Footprint Optimization?

This approach finds answers and solutions to 4 key questions:

• What& Why | Which products and processes experience problems and why?
• Where | Where should our sites be located?
• When | When is it necessary to reposition our sites?
• How | How should we rethink our Operations?

By the term Manufacturing Footprint we refer to the geographical distribution and configuration of a company's manufacturing activities. This includes the location of manufacturing plants, assembly centers, warehouses and logistics facilities.

A well-designed Manufacturing Footprint must consider several factors, including:

• Proximity to consumer markets,
• The availability and cost of labor, access to raw materials,
• logistics infrastructure,
• local regulations,
• economic conditions.

Optimizing the Footprint means, therefore, adapting and reallocating one's resources on a geographic basis to maximize productivity, minimize costs, and improve the flexibility, sustainability, and responsiveness of the company.

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