Manufacturing Strategy is a concept of defining the most suitable manufacturing system to fulfil the business objectives of an organisation. Manufacturing strategy is revised and updated as and when it is required and based on demand for a certain „manufacturing“ footprint in a cetain geography. This is closely related to sourcing strategy, as the suppliers are feeders of components to the client’s factories which produce the final product.
- Objectives/Key learning points
- Understand the role of Manufacturing Strategy in the organisation
- Clarify the role of manufacturing management in developing the strategy
- Trade-offs between cost, quality and capacity relative to where the factories should be
- Define general manufacturing standards reflecting on the busienss needs
- Teaching methodology
- Facilitated discussionm and review of existing strategy
- Implementation methodology
- Run the workshop on a real project and help the project team to identify the best manufacturing strategy to support that project/program.