The questions of where and to what extent value creation should be performed are particularly relevant for many companies today. Changes in economic regions, market prospects, supply chains, sources of procurement, labor shortages and more, necessitate the adaptation of production and logistics networks.
We support companies in developing concepts and feasibility studies, to assess the future impacts of organizing value creation locally, nationally, across Europe, or globally.
Our Services
For developing a future-proof concept, we examine the issues from both, top-down and bottom-up perspectives, considering various aspects:
- What is manufactured, stored, and distributed where?
- What are the focal points of each location?
- What resources are needed at each location?
- How do the locations interact with each other?
- Are new locations needed, and where should they be situated?
- Are the proposed locations suitable?
- What do the costs and cost structures look like?
- Are the structures performance-efficient?
- If new locations are needed, are the existing ones properly set up?
Benefits for our clients
- Extensive Experience: Since 1990, we have been addressing this topic for renowned clients.
- Expertise and Methods: Our employees possess the necessary expertise and utilize innovative tools. They also have the essential skills to prepare stakeholders with a solid decision-making foundation. As part of the T&O Group, we are able to put together effective and competent teams.
- Global Reach: We serve clients from the DACH region globally, in all major regions of the world, collaborating with competent partners and leveraging broad international experience.
- Strategic and Operational Approach: We work both strategically and operationally, ensuring our solutions are practical and effective.
The requirements for locations, especially the interaction between them, are undergoing significant changes: themes such as "local instead of global," risk mitigation, market shifts, and sometimes dramatic market changes, trade barriers, cost pressures, and capacity issues are taking on new dimensions. This necessitates a reevaluation of a location’s strategy and distribution, including supply chain alignment.
The Manufacturing and Logistics Footprint of a company plays a crucial role in responding to these evolving conditions. While addressing short-term issues, the Footprint also highlights long-term development perspectives.
For many years, we have been assisting companies in developing and revising their Manufacturing and Logistics Footprints (our first Footprint project dates back to 1991). Drawing on the experience of past projects, we have developed a dedicated approach to tackle this task in a structured, systematic manner, yielding traceable results. It is important to us that we create viable Footprints, not merely "concept papers" that may fail in implementation.
Developing a Footprint involves both strategic considerations ("What are the objectives — market strategy, production strategy?") and operational feasibility: Which processes can be effectively executed where? What resources are currently available and will be in the future? What constraints exist or will arise, whether in products, machinery, logistics, and so on.
Therefore, crafting a solid Footprint requires a team capable of breaking down complexity both strategically and operationally. Our dedicated "Footprint Team" brings the necessary qualifications to enable you to effectively address strategic questions and interactions at both, macro and micro levels. We critically evaluate various solutions against cost-benefit ratios and provide sufficient decision support to the management.