Innovation in emerging markets: 2008 Annual Study
The 2008 study assesses the impacts that heightened concerns over product safety, quality, and environmental impacts are having on the strategies and operations of global manufacturers in emerging markets.

Delivering the low-carbon economy
Manufacturing can thrive in producing innovative goods and technologies to help reduce carbon emissions. The low carbon economy could provide UK manufacturing with significant opportunities.

Delivering on the promise
Improving supply chain performance imperative to UK manufacturing.  Our approach can help you to improve your supply chain operations through organisational, process and technology improvements to ensure customers get the products they need, when they want, at a cost that is reasonable.

Why Finance Transformation matters in Global Manufacturing
Business transformations in pursuit of performance improvements are nothing new. Despite large-scale investments in management practices, processes and technologies, however, results for most companies have been less than stellar. Our analysis of 500 of the world’s largest manufacturing companies shows more than 30 percent had negative average economic margins over the last five years. In effect they were destroying capital.

Innovation in emerging markets: 2007
Global manufacturers once regarded emerging markets primarily as low-cost locations for routine operations. Now, attracted by the enormous business opportunities, and often encouraged by government policies, manufacturers are locating higher-value activities such as complex production, research and development (R&D), and sales/marketing operations in these rapidly growing economies.

Authorised Economic Operator
AEO status is an accreditation regime to prove supply chain compliance. The AEO regulation encourages companies to increase security, in exchange for incentives which will improve the efficiency of the supply chain and ultimately reduce costs. AEO will impact on many aspects of your business, such as logistics, finance, IT systems and legal.

Balancing business and the environment
If your organisation has a large car fleet and you are thinking, “How do I persuade the workforce to drive lower emission vehicles?” Deloitte can help you. Deloitte has been working with car fleet operators for the last 12 years and has insight on how to reduce emissions whilst minimising operating costs.

R&D Budget update: A manufacturing perspective
Manufacturing companies should be pleased with the number of favorable changes to the R&D tax relief regimes for both Small & Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Large companies introduced by the 2007 Budget. The implications of the changes announced in the Budget are set out as follows: extension of SME definition for R&D relief; increase in rates of R&D relief and the impact of changes to capital allowances.

R&D in UK Manufacturing
As the definition of Research & Development (R&D) for the purposes of the tax relief becomes more clearly defined and tested, it is apparent that many activities undertaken to develop and improve manufacturing processes qualify for the relief. Although the actual number of companies claiming the relief is increasing, most companies are still not claiming for all eligible activities, specifically those occurring outside their product development or research centres. Can you afford not to be sure?

Pensions restructuring in UK Manufacturing
UK manufacturing faces an uncertain future, facing challenges to compete in the global economy. Some companies have no realistic prospect of clearing their pensions deficit. As these companies have slimmed down to achieve operating efficiency, their pension deficits have continued to increase. As a result, some of these companies have no realistic prospect of clearing their pensions deficit, which can often represent the largest single balance sheet liability.