Make the right footprint decisions in an uncertain, multi-parameter environment that's hard to predict
Our consultants work directly on the ground, alongside your teams, in your production workshops and with your support and development functions.
Manufacturing, Aerospace, Defense, Pharma, Luxury, Food & Beverage: whatever the sector, we transform your operations into a lever for your ambitions.
Footprint decisions are among the most structuring — and the hardest to make
Evolving markets, product mixes and logistics flows progressively make the existing industrial footprint inadequate.
The multiplication of sites following M&A activity creates duplication, inefficiencies and a network that's hard to steer coherently.
Demand volatility generates capacity imbalances that are hard to anticipate — with direct consequences on costs and performance.
Costs, capex, risks, performance, organization: footprint decisions involve complex, often conflicting variables.
Business ambitions don't naturally translate into operational capacity. The industrial and logistics tool remains too often disconnected from strategy.
Faced with volatility, it becomes difficult to size and locate future capacity without an integrated, dynamic model.
The industrial and logistics network must be sized and located based on business ambitions — not the other way around.
No footprint scenario holds up without a precise read of each site's real capacity, performance and operational constraints.
An integrated model — performance, capacity, organization, external constraints — enables confident trade-offs and continued steering after the mission.
From strategic clarification to the definition of the transformation plan
Understanding business objectives, analyzing market and product/process mix evolution, defining make-or-buy stakes. Connecting business strategy with the operational capacity required.
Complete mapping of current sites and capacities. Organizational analysis (central vs. local, process). Modeling of the existing footprint as a baseline for comparison.
Assessing the maturity and performance of each site. Identifying possible gains without heavy transformation — to maximize value before any investment.
Building concrete, comparable scenarios: site openings, closures, consolidation of activities, logistics evolution. Each scenario is modeled with its cost, capex, risk and performance impacts.
Comparing scenarios against objective criteria. Identifying and quantifying risks. Weighing options and aligning stakeholders around the chosen scenario.
Building the target footprint and defining the associated transformation plan. Structuring a durable trajectory, with a model that lets the client keep steering its scenarios after the mission.
Every context is different. Our approach adapts to the nature of the decisions to be made.
Constant back-and-forth between top management vision and operational reality. We don't deliver desk-based scenarios — we ground them in what's actually feasible.
We connect strategy, business, supply chain, industrial and field teams. Footprint decisions involve everyone — our approach brings them along.
Performance, capacity, organization, external constraints and market evolution in a single model. No silos between variables.
We identify possible gains before any investment. Often, the best footprint decision starts with optimizing what already exists.
Thanks to Lagrange AI, the client can keep evolving their scenarios after the mission — a durable steering capability, not a static deliverable.
Our expert is available for an initial conversation about your context — a quick diagnosis, strategic thinking, or scoping a footprint evolution project.
