Manufacturing Transformation

Frost & Sullivan’s methodology/process consists of three phases (shown below):

• Foundation Phase
• Consolidation Phase
• Excellence Phase

This is a proven program that focuses on aligning business goals with that of manufacturing and in turn deploys best practices in the supply chain thereby ensuring manufacturing excellence.

Additional thought leadership, interaction with experts, workshops, forums, and a community of experts and world-class practitioners, are also available to augment the three-phase process.

Internal Challenges

• Pressure to Increase Market Share: Higher markets share results in higher sustained volumes and higher quotient of customer loyalty
• Change Management: A structured, well-defined, planned organizational process ensures employees accept and embrace changes so that desired results are achieved in a sustained manner
• Employee Retention/Motivation: Loss of experienced employees damages the organization. Working with employees to motivate them to take on self-improvement results in organizational alignment and employee satisfaction
• Supply Chain Reliability: Ensuring backward and forward supply chain integration prevents disruption in plant routines. Lack of reliability impacts profitability, time to react to customer needs, and market share
• Linking manufacturing strategy to business strategy: Manufacturing strategy must be in tandem with the overall business goal to ensure industry leadership/positions are maintained

External Challenges

• Ever Increasing Customer Expectations:Customer awareness of global and local environmental issues is at an all time high. Inability to satisfy customers will result in loss of market share
• Poor Infrastructure:Lack of or poor infrastructure (ports, rail heads, roads, utilities, etc.) add to an organization’s costs resulting in higher costs to access markets
• Cascading Effect of Indirect Taxes: Not all costs (raw materials, energy, transportation, government levies) can be passed onto the customer. Doing so can result in customer refusal to purchase. Companies must understand which costs must be absorbed.

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Manufacturing Transformation’s Manufacturing Excellence Assessment

Frost & Sullivan’s Global Manufacturing Excellence Model objectively assess a facility on 12 factors that define its being called flexible and lean. These capture excellence on cost, quality, delivery, and innovation.

The sub-scores are computed based on the facility’s success on 255 “Points of Achievement” (POA). The assessment is designed to identify answers to the following questions:

• Where does the facility stand on the global manufacturing scale?
• How does it fare vis-à-vis other companies in its sector?
• Is the operations and supply chain efficiencies to meet customer requirements?
• Is the organization aligned with a culture of continuous improvement?
• What improvement projects needs to be deployed to improve its performance vis-à-vis competition?

Deployment Workshops

Deployment workshops (on-request), are conducted post Manufacturing Excellence Assessments. Projects are identified, aligned and prioritized based on the parameters that would give a competitive advantage to the organization.

The projects are deployed into teams through a day-long workshop. Achievable and time-bound targets are set across all the parameters. Best practices relevant to the industry sector are also shared. The progress is monitored at regular intervals to ensure that the direction and pace are as per the overall plan.

Manufacturing Summit

Frost & Sullivan’s Manufacturing Summit provides an ideal platform for knowledge exchange and business networking in addition to presentations on aspects most relevant to the manufacturing fraternity. The summit also hosts panel discussions on topics of importance and concern to manufacturing companies.

Topics discussed cover issues that challenge and constrain achieving higher degrees of manufacturing excellence. Industry experts share insights on factors that contribute to the successful deployment of these proven practices. The forum is designed to assist companies to overcome their implementation constraints and thereby improve processes.

Growth Pipeline as a Service

Growth Pipeline as a Service for manufacturing clients provides in-depth insights and analysis on manufacturing-related topics that empower organizations in their journey towards manufacturing excellence.

These services combine expert opinions based on Frost & Sullivan’s global perspective and presence, with in-depth observations and the collective experience of over 300 major companies across South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East, across all verticals.

Growth Pipeline as a Service for manufacturing clients is designed to provide companies with the best practices employed by companies across different sectors and various functions.

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Frost & Sullivan’s methodology/process consists of three phases (shown below):

• Foundation Phase
• Consolidation Phase
• Excellence Phase

This is a proven program that focuses on aligning business goals with that of manufacturing and in turn deploys best practices in the supply chain thereby ensuring manufacturing excellence.

Additional thought leadership, interaction with experts, workshops, forums, and a community of experts and world-class practitioners, are also available to augment the three-phase process.