Manufacturing Cost Analysis

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Key Benefits

  • Evaluating the potential for cost efficiencies
  • Optimizing supply chain and manufacturing efficiencies
  • Identifying and evaluating specific material costs and supplier relationships
  • Assessing manufacturing process and technologies used by the competition
  • Benchmarking a specific production process against examples of 'best in class' practice
  • Challenging internal decision-making
  • Evidence

    In order to provide the extremely specialized and targeted intelligence required for this type of program, our highly skilled analysts are specifically trained to elicit site specific data including:

    • Product or site-specific sales volume and revenues
    • Production volumes and capacities
    • Employee headcount by function
    • Shift patterns
    • Number of production lines and type of equipment used
    • Plant costs and resources including: Management and labor costs, cost and sources of raw materials, components and consumables costs, distribution costs, utilities, capital expenditures, outsourced services, and SG&A
    • Operating efficiency, productivity and production yields
    • Plant metrics
    • Future expansion plans

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  • Expertise and Context

     Our Global Manufacturing Analysis Team comprised of Directors and Senior Project Consultants provides clients with access to:

    • A high level of process economics, strategic planning, production management, productivity/six sigma, supply chain management and financial expertise gained from both consultancy and manufacturing industry backgrounds
    • Specialist  manufacturing analysis expertise and experience focusing on the inductive (bottom up) analysis of competitors’ process economics by corporation, platform, facility and product
    • Expertise in the customized design, execution and delivery of strategic programs to clients across major sectors including Food and Beverage, Consumer Goods, Chemicals, Building Materials, and Automotive
      Strategic Alignment: delivering the right results to support specific client initiatives

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  • Evidence-Based Solutions

    Key Outputs from CIS’ Manufacturing Cost Analysis program include:

    • Profit and Loss statements for a targeted competitor site or sites
    • In-depth understanding of a competitor’s revenues and cost
      structures for a specific site and product
    • Analysis of opportunities for optimization of client’s own model
    • Granular and validated intelligence from deep within the competitor manufacturing location
    • Industry and client-specific implications, recommendations & conclusions
    • Actionable evidence which supports and informs business planning

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CIS’ Manufacturing Cost Analysis offering enables clients to benchmark their own production costs and processes against the competition. 

Insight into competitor’s manufacturing cost structures, operating expenses, revenues and profitability is often unobtainable from published source data. CIS’ Manufacturing Cost Analysis program is designed to provide a profit and loss statement for one or more of a competitor’s manufacturing sitesand/or product lines.

Through the collection of detailed evidence into the production processes that are employed, how the business and manufacturing organizations are structured and run, and what resources are utilized, related to a specific competitor’s product(s), we develop a site-specific P&L which is detailed enough to show each individual product line and the costs associated with it.

Our dedicated Global Manufacturing Cost Analysis Team has a proven track record of conducting site analysis across multiple geographies and market sectors which includes detailed analyzes of product and site-specific manufacturing, marketing, sales and technical costs. Sector expertise includes: