Julie Fraser executive brief: Offshoring strategies - Becoming a global manufacturer

The manufacturing sector has been the first to feel the immense pressures of reaching new markets and competing with recently-industrialized nations. For manufacturers, it is simply not possible to ignore the rapid rise of skills and growth of infrastructure in parts of the world that also have the potential to be massive market opportunities.

Most companies’ production footprint today is the result of history rather than design. As global pressure increases, manufacturers need a new business process. Whether this is for the first venture into offshore production, or tuning the existing global network, companies must be able to consciously configure the business footprint across the globe.  Getting this right involves understanding the side effects of a separation of activities that may previously have been under one roof.  This global production design is not a one-time-only exercise. The global situation changes constantly and the network must keep pace.

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