One of the greatest challenges for a manufacturing company is figuring out what is the optimal footprint for production facilities and volumes, and then achieving it. This is never an easy exercise. Getting the right answer requires optimizing a wide range
of factors, including labor, overhead, logistics, inventory, and infrastructure. Often, it requires understanding complicated cross-border and regulatory issues. Manufacturers constantly wrestle with these difficult questions:

Where should I place capacity to capitalize on growing markets?

How can I consolidate my production network to increase margin and value?

How do I take advantage of lower-cost locations for production?

How do I transition from my current footprint to my optimal footprint, quickly?

Our Approach

We bring a unique combination of real-world experience and sophisticated modeling and analytics, to help companies tackle the footprint challenge. We have deep expertise in all aspects of manufacturing footprint design and execution. We have a proven
process that deals comprehensively with footprint changes, including carefully
managing transitions for customers and suppliers. And we use our Manufacturing Footprint Optimization (MFO) Model as an analytical engine, to accelerate the work and the results.