Manufacturing Footprint

Optimizing your manufacturing footprint is more important than ever before. Global uncertainties and disruptions are driving many companies to determine how to prepare their manufacturing footprint for the future from for example the perspectives of cost, risk and sustainability.

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12th edition of the BCI Transportation Monitor

Disruptions and cost increases in global supply chains have become the norm these days. Many companies experience unreliable (ocean) freight lead-times, volatile ocean- and airfreight rates, continuous rise of road transportation rates and capacity shortages. And you are about to be confronted with new disruptions and with high general rate increases in 2025 as well.

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November 11 - November 13 2024
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Johan Beukema
Managing Partner
+31 24 379 0222
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Our team of experts has extensive experience in this field, with a deep understanding of global markets and local situations. 

Whether you are in a growing business and need to facilitate further business growth with production capacity growth or you are in a business that is under pressure and you are challenged to reduce landed costs to optimize margins, you will need to define footprint scenarios, analyze them and build your improvement roadmap for the future.  Our team of experts has extensive experience in this field, combining deep footprint analysis skills and experience with knowledge about manufacturing hotspot location around the globe. We can provide you with comprehensive analyses and data-driven recommendations to help you identify the best manufacturing footprint for your business

Our vision on manufacturing footprint

In the current global environment, uncertainty is a given. Geopolitical turmoil, (manufacturing ) technology developments, labor market challenges, tax climate changes to name a few, are drivers for your company to review and optimize its manufacturing footprint. Strategic considerations that should be included in the scope of your manufacturing footprint initiatives are for example:

  • Can we de-risk our manufacturing footprint through decentralization?
  • Should we consolidate to maximize economies of scale or should we manufacture close to our  customer base in a decentralized footprint?
  • What will be the impact of new manufacturing technology on our optimal footprint for the future?
  • How should be balance Make versus Buy strategies?
  • Are strategies such as near-sourcing, near-shoring, re-shoring, China+1, viable strategies for our company?

A thorough process, with quantitative analysis combined with qualitative and risk analysis, allows you to determine the best footprint solution for your manufacturing operations taking into account business strategy, volume projections and expected external developments.

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Johan Beukema
Managing Partner
+31 24 379 0222
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