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Managing strategic risk in China’s automotive market
Learn how to mitigate long-term risk and provide strategic flexibility in a market fraught with uncertainty.
The service revolution: Manufacturing’s missing crown jewel
With unprecedented pressures on product margins and the threat of commoditization, services may the best opportunity for profit and differentiation.
Building Supply Chain Excellence in Emerging Economies
This book published by Springer Science+Business Media, LLC provides insights on the developments, challenges and opportunities of operating supply chains in emerging economies and features contributions from Deloitte's Steven Aschkenase, Doug Engel, Peter Koudal and Keith Nash.
Why finance transformation matters in global manufacturing
In recent years, manufacturers have spent vast sums of money on business transformation to mixed results. While there is rarely one recipe for successful business improvement, there is a growing recognition that finance is an indispensable ingredient.
Managing the talent crisis in global manufacturing
Manufacturing needs new strategies to help attract and retain younger, high-skilled workers. This report details what the sector must do to compete for talent in today's global economy.
Globalizing Indian manufacturing
Despite recent and rapid changes in the Indian manufacturing sector, challenges still exists. However, a collaborative report produced in part by Deloitte Research, suggests overcoming the hurdles are well worth the effort.
Putting a premium on service
The basis of competition is shifting toward service excellence—the ability to drive business performance through superior service and parts management. This Supply Chain Management Review article from Deloitte examines how manufacturers are driving growth through the service side of their operations.
Laboratories of Innovation: Leveraging Emerging Markets for Commercial Success
This report highlights that companies will need to acquire a new set of competencies and organizational structures to generate a continuing stream of innovative products tailored to the needs of consumers and industrial buyers in emerging markets.
The Service Revolution in Global Manufacturing
While manufacturers look for growth and profits in all corners of the globe, they often neglect large opportunities much closer to home — in their own service and parts operations. This new thought leadership report reveals how manufacturers are building world-class service and parts businesses to drive profitable growth.
Growing the Global Corporation
Foreign direct investment (FDI) by U.S. manufacturers increased 90 percent from 2003 to 2004. Despite what would appear to be major opportunities for FDI in emerging markets, such as China and India, most U.S. manufacturers are putting their investment bets on the developed markets of Western Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.
The Power of Synchronization: The Case of TAL Apparel
This new case study from Deloitte Research shows how TAL has changed the dynamics of its competitive situation to its distinct advantage by delivering a value proposition beyond the usual concerns of cost, quality, and delivery.
Unlocking the Value of Globalization: Profiting from Continuous Optimization
More than 80 percent of world's most global companies are not capturing full value of their investments. Rather than take a holistic view in the design and expansion of their global supply chain network, most manufacturers focus on fixing individual pieces of the network. The result: suboptimal improvements, wasted efforts and frequently lackluster performance.
OnStar: Connecting to Customers Through Telematics
This case study from Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum and Deloitte Research looks at how OnStar became the world’s largest telematics provider in the automotive industry.
Is Your Global Strategy Getting Stale? Globalizing the U.S. Food Manufacturing Industry
This study raises the all-important question: where in the world should U.S.-based multinationals put their foreign direct investment dollars for long-term strategic advantage, growth and profits?
Globalization Divided? Global Investment Trends of U.S. Manufacturers
This new study from Deloitte Research suggests that the globalization of U.S. manufacturing is at a crossroads. Are U.S. manufacturers going to concentrate their investment spending in tried and true markets in the developed world or will they start to see the opportunities they may be missing in emerging markets.
Mastering Innovation: Exploiting Ideas for Profitable Growth
For manufacturers today, innovation is the engine of growth. Paradoxically, however, building or restructuring their operations to profitably bring new products and services to market is near the bottom of most manufacturers’ priorities. Our research shows that overcoming this “innovation paradox” is crucial to survival and success in increasingly complex global markets.
Radio Frequency Identification: Critical Considerations for Manufacturers
Discover the four major RFID challenges facing companies today.
The Challenge of Complexity in Global Manufacturing: Trends in Supply Chain Management
This study explores the implications of increasingly complex supply chains and uncovers five major paradoxes around global optimization, customer collaboration, innovation, flexibility, and risk. This report is the first in a series, based on Deloitte's Global Manufacturing Supply Chain Benchmarking Series.
Mastering Complexity in Global Manufacturing: Driving Profits and Growth Through Value Chain Synchronization
Learn how “complexity masters,” are able to leverage their strengths in collaboration, flexibility, visibility, and technology in order to generate profits, growth and shareholder returns. This is the second report in a series based on Deloitte's Global Manufacturing Supply Chain Benchmarking Series.
Profiting from Continuous Differentation in the Global Chemicals Industry
Beset by economic downturns and overcapacity, a growing number of large, global chemical companies are moving toward "continuous differentiation" of their products and services.
Globalization on Hold?
Foreign direct investment by U.S. manufacturers plunged in 2002 — down 37 percent from the previous year — indicating that the slow economy, terrorism and other factors are dampening global expansion.
Integrating Demand and Supply Chains in the Global Automotive Industry
Automakers face the daunting task of improving profitability in a soft market. Discover how industry giant General Motors uses its Digital Loyalty Network to deliver new levels of value to customers and shareholders.
Collaborative Commerce in the High-Tech Industry
The recent market downturn hit the high-tech industry especially hard. Collaborative commerce creates a winning environment for companies that bridges the gaps between employees, customers and partners.
The High-Tech Industry and the Relationship Portfolio
The demands of the networked economy mandate a radical change in organization and management mindset. Companies that strategically build relationship portfolios will emerge as winners in this new environment.
Directions in Collaborative Commerce
Break down traditional business boundaries and deliver higher profitability — as much as 70 percent — than your competitors.
Performance Amid Uncertainty in Global Manufacturing
Amgen. Coca-Cola. Colgate-Palmolive. Dell Computer. Microsoft. Nokia. What do these diverse global companies have in common? The short answer is this: They are all extraordinary performers.
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