Unfortunately, neither optimizing business processes nor initiating a manufacturing business plan that can support global lean manufacturing operations lend themselves to fruition through the magic-wand school of management.

Neither happens overnight and neither happens in a way that leaves every manager and every employee delighted. It's about business success, and success and bliss don't always coexist -- regardless of how much all of us wish they did.

That said, self-analysis is inevitably the place where successfully navigating the future begins.

Business "Wants"
At a high level, companies in the quest for efficiency and improved profitability want lean operations. They want to be able to respond to their customers and their prospects with quality products at sensible pricing. They want to be where the market is, to anticipate where the market will be tomorrow, and they want to anticipate geographic market changes and capitalize on them.

Of course at the heart of their desires is beating competition -- present and future.

Laurence J. Peter once said, If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else -- a major problem for business. But before you can set objectives and chart a course to realize them, you must know where you are, and whether "where you're going" is where you are prepared to go, or where you need to go given the direction of your markets.

Questions arise:

• Should we own functions or farm them out?
• How do we determine what's best for us?
• What makes a supply chain consistently dependable?
• How do we design for both efficiency and producibility?
• Once we have a global business plan in which we are confident, how do we ensure that our manufacturing plan perfectly supports it?

Effective business analyses -- determining precisely where your company stands today and where its core and future markets will be tomorrow -- is where every successful quest toward global manufacturing optimization begins.

GOS’ broad worldwide experience at optimizing business processes and other manufacturing solutions is leveraged on your behalf to ensure you wind up where you need to be, not "somewhere else."

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