Manufacturing Footprint Optimization | White Paper

Highlights

Manufacturing Footprint Optimization (MFO) is the winning strategic approach to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of a company’s operations on a global scale.
In this in-depth report, prepared by our Knowledge Office, the fundamental principles, operational steps and benefits obtained will be explored, 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 are experiencing problems and why?
• Where | Where should our sites be located?
• 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 production activities. This includes the location of production facilities, assembly centers, warehouses, and logistics structures.

A well-designed Manufacturing Footprint must take into account various factors, including:

• proximity to consumer markets,
• the availability and cost of labor, access to raw materials,
• the logistical infrastructures,
• local regulations,
• the economic conditions.

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

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