Product cost management – a best practice approach
In today’s business environment, effective cost management is critical for sustaining profitability and competitiveness. We discuss some best practice approaches that can be taken to manage product costs.
The Bottom Line: Effective Methods for Decreasing Product Cost and Boosting Margins
We explain how analysing and challenging Could Cost and Should Cost elements using fact-based models, value engineering and benchmarking can help achieve Best Cost.
Speed to market is critical for affordable electric vehicles
With more Chinese electric vehicle makers planning to launch products in the UK in 2024, the race is on for UK and European OEMs to make their mass-market ranges available as quickly as possible.
Walking the tightrope
In a difficult economic climate for both consumers and business, food and drink producers face a delicate balancing act to keep costs down while maintaining quality for customers.
5 ways for manufacturers to accelerate decarbonisation
As climate targets approach manufacturers could be doing more to tackle Scope 2 emissions – resulting from the generation of purchased energy – and Scope 3 emissions – produced throughout the whole value chain.
EV makers must secure mission-critical suppliers to scale successfully
With EV battery packs and raw materials in short supply, it is critical for manufacturers to improve operational resilience and secure the supplies they need.
Cost and Carbon Reduction through Operational Excellence
Adopting operational excellence can help to achieve both short- and long-term goals across cost and carbon, creating competitive advantage and enabling more effective investment decisions.
Are aerospace just in time supply chains a thing of the past?
The civil aviation industry is making progress in ramping up production and demand levels across the defence sector have rarely been higher. But what does this mean for buffer stocks – will they need to continue for a while longer?
Get ready to transform for a brighter, greener, leaner tomorrow – the factory of the future
With defence spending increasing and civil aviation passenger numbers predicted to rise, could this be the year that they put their ‘factory of the future’ strategies to the test?