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Manufacturing Footprint Strategy – making the right things in the right places – is not simply a glamorised version of outsourcing, offshoring, restructuring or of locating production in emerging markets, emphasises the report’s authors - Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge. It is a new approach to the design and configuration of manufacturing plants across the world; the goal is the achievement of a co-ordinated network of operations working collectively at their best, not a collection of plants operating individually at top notch.
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