Is the clean energy supply chain ready for grid expansion?
With the government’s renewed focus on upgrading national infrastructure, clean energy providers must ensure their supply chains and processes are fully optimised ahead of any increased demand.
How cost-carbon efficient is your NPD process?
New product development (NPD) in the FMCG sector often comes with high cost and carbon implications. Businesses must create a holistic process that considers these aspects from ideation through to waste minimisation.
DfX – giving your new product innovation the X factor
When it comes to new product innovation (NPI), there’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all approach and engineers often find that juggling different priorities leads to costly, late-stage design changes.
How Strategic Initiatives are Transforming the Mining Industry: Taking Major Steps on the Road to Net Zero
The mining industry is taking major steps on its road to Net Zero. In this report we explore the challenges, the opportunities and the 5 steps to create certainty around business growth.
FMCG manufacturing – data visibility is key to cost and carbon efficiency
An accurate and holistic understanding of the carbon and cost impact of each facet of business operations is imperative to stay competitive.
Bringing innovation to life
With product innovation flourishing, manufacturers could be forgiven for innovating first and thinking about whether their value chain is capable of bringing it to market later. Yet taking this approach could be selling themselves short.
Using should cost modelling strategies to absorb rising costs
Should Cost modelling can accelerate cost savings, closing the cost gap that often exists between the business environment of months or even years ago, compared to that of today.
Q&A – Cost and Value Engineering
Director Paul Cooper talks to Alan March, our head of cost and value engineering, about this function and the impact that looking at cost through a cost and value engineering lens can have on a business’s operations.
What should it cost? The role of good data
Should Cost modelling is a crucial practice in many industries. However, the key to successful Should Cost modelling is the availability and accuracy of good data.