Tag: nearshoring

Achieving Reshoring Cost Parity with Speed and Precision Around the world, conditions are accelerating shifts toward localized, more controllable manufacturing and supply chains. Kormac enjoys meeting our client partners' facility needs, whether they be greenfield or brownfield, domestic or international. We address the technical, tactical, and cultural aspects of facility transition to ensure strategic alignment, schedule attainment, fiscal adherence, enhanced resilience, and performance sustainability. See PDF for more.

Cost Parity
Achieving Reshoring Cost Parity

Reshoring is gaining momentum, but achieving cost parity remains a challenge. Our concise guide outlines key strategies for minimizing upfront investment and achieving production cost targets in domestic operations….

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Painless facility expansions & transitions

Reshoring
Facility Moves, Expansions, & Transitions

The “Reshoring Renaissance” is picking up steam! Several of Kormac’s manufacturing client partners have asked for our assistance in supporting greenfield and brownfield U.S. plant expansions. Around the world, conditions are accelerating shifts toward localized, more controllable manufacturing and supply chains….

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2024 Maze
Feeling a little lost in 2024?

While 2023’s anticipated recession never arrived, geopolitical uncertainty poses continued challenges to forecasting, planning, and execution….

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Manufacturing TOW Seamless Consolidation & Transfer Following a series of mergers, an aerospace and defense electronics supplier turned to Kormac for assistance in consolidating several manufacturing sites. - 20% floor space reduction - 17% capital investment reduction - Readiness - robust transfer plan Our transfer of work collaboration included: Needs assessment, manufacturing process enhancement, site requirements definition, line and space optimization, end-to-end project planning, labor planning, OTIF delivery planning, financial documentation, and communications.

Manufacturing TOW
Seamless Consolidation & Transfer

Manufacturers are on the move, with many pursuing facility consolidations and transfers. We recently supported an aerospace and defense supplier in consolidating several manufacturing sites following a series of mergers….

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Rationalization Excess facilities, equipment, products, systems, or platforms? Check your baggage. It's hard to get anywhere fast when you're dragging legacy assets. Companies that grow rapidly or by acquisition eventually reach a day of reckoning when they are forced to grapple with their disparate collection of facilities, manufacturing platforms, or product lines. Kormac has decades of experience in helping organizations to reassess, redesign, and rationalize operational and product portfolios.

Rationalization
Check your baggage

Companies that grow rapidly or by acquisition eventually reach a day of reckoning when they are forced to grapple with their disparate collection of facilities, manufacturing platforms, or product lines….

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Nearshoring to Mexico Nearshoring: ¡Vamos a México! Driven by federal incentives, geopolitical risk, and pandemic aftershocks, restoring and nearshoring continue apace. [Screenshots of various article titles about restoring and México] Kormac's senior operational experts have diverse experience designing, launching, and operating manufacturing facilities south of the border

Nearshoring to Mexico
Nearshoring: ¡Vamos a México!

Driven by federal incentives, geopolitical risk and pandemic aftershocks, reshoring and nearshoring continue apace. For manufacturers compressing supply chains, nearshoring to our southern neighbor provides a comfortable, cost-effective option. Companies of all size are feeling the pull – even 88% of small and medium sized businesses are “reshuffling their supply...
Manufacturing Facilities Optimization: Detailed Plant Scenarios and Modeling - Reduced manpoower requirements by 33%, cut warehouse overtime, and optimized off-site storage locations

Manufacturing Facilities Optimization: Detailed Plant Scenarios and Modeling
Reduced manpower requirements by 33%, cut warehouse overtime, and optimized off-site storage locations

As US manufacturers consider reshoring, they’re often prompted to reevaluate the configuration of existing facilities, including storage. We help such leaders develop detailed plant scenarios and models to guide recommendations on combining, consolidating, redesigning, and/or automating plants, including estimated costs and savings for each scenario. To follow is a chemical...
Cost Management Rebalancing the margin tug-of-war Does your organization struggle to achieve financial goals in an increasingly volatile marketplace? [iconography of two teams playing tug of war, with the target margin in the middle. Text above the image reads "Kormac Rebalancing"] Cost Pressures: Labor, Materials, Logistics, Real estate, Technolgy Market Pressures: Pricing, service delivery, quality, lead time, social responsibility Kormac's Surgival Strike Methodology™ delivers the agility you need to meet your financial objectivers.

Cost Management
Rebalancing the margin tug-of-war

As the labor and supply cost rollercoaster continues, we are working with several clients to identify new management levers. Among them: Increasing the frequency of cost reviews to ensure faster customer price adjustments and/or tying customer pricing to component market indices Executing Value Analysis and Value Engineering efforts to drive...