Understanding your relative cost position against competition is critical to effective market and manufacturing strategy development. Asian competitors can be particularly difficult to understand in this regard due to their opaque structures and unconventional business systems and practices.

Our Process: “Deep-dive” the market’s key players who interact with the “target” competitor at multiple levels of the value chain; Utilize an anonymous, external approach to the competitor’s raw material suppliers, equipment providers, government tax agencies, customers, etc. Finally, we approach the target competitor on a face-to-face basis and with multiple senior management contacts in their organization.

The Result: Accurate insight into pieces of the “puzzle” that make up the competitor’s costing approach; Benchmarks the client can compare against their own costs position to determine any gaps; Apply these insights to sharpen manufacturing strategy, market opportunity and overall competitive threat assessments.

A holistic and ethical approach to cost analysis