Case Study
Medical Device Company Requires Strategic Location to Expand Global Manufacturing Capacity
- Confidential Client - Medical Device Company
The Challenge
Challenged with limited available production capacity in existing operations, Executive
Management was seeking to make an informed decision for where it should install incremental
manufacturing production capacity to support global demand. The C&W Business
Consulting team helped the company decide if the company should expand in, a) an existing
location, b) low cost country platform, or c) tax advantaged platform.
Our Impact
Our Consulting team developed an approach, decision framework, and associated analytical tools
to enable simultaneous consideration of multiple decision criteria considered important to
answering the question above.
The team integrated sophisticated financial, operating, and risk models into a single decision support framework that provided visibility into the trade-offs associated with each option, including a:
a. Financial evaluation that measured cost of goods sold, operating expenses, conversion costs, run rate, before and after tax profit, payback period, and IRR
b. Non-economic evaluation that measured the ability to scale and sustain operations, appropriateness of supporting infrastructure, regulatory environment, schedule confidence, and degree of pioneering
c. Risk evaluation that measured political, financial, economic, IP, regulatory, operating, and disaster risk
The Outcome
The team was able to quantify and report the merits of each location option under
investigation. Ultimately the tax advantaged, moderate operating cost location of
Shannon, Ireland was selected as the location for the capacity expansion.
| For more information contact: Thomas Bomba (212)841-5002 thomas.bomba@cushwake.com |
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