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Publications

The expertise of PA's leading manufacturing consultants is available in the publications below

PA's manufacturing consultants publish a broad spectrum of survey reports and other publications that have been generated through our insights and Thought Leadership initiatives. If you would like to request our publications, please click on the topics of interest below.

New publications

  Shifting gears in the automotive industry - PA's automotive capability
  The European Way - Competitive strategies to outperform Toyota in the next decade (Automotive manufacturing)

Survey reports and publications

  Avoiding the RFID money pit - Companies need to take a fundamentally different view of RFID trials if they are to realise value
  Breakthrough results for complex engineering projects - Virtual studios re-invent the project office
  Delivering business innovation in the manufacturing sector - The most innovative companies in their sectors earn double the shareholder returns
  Embedded software in automotive products - Tackling the complexities of in-car embedded systems
  Enhancing shareholder value by strategically managing collaboration
  Innovation excellence in an agile world. Doubling engineering effectiveness to enhance product development
  Licence to reduce costs - Product optimisation with best practice
  Making the impossible possible - Building a high performance supply chain
  Manufacturing industries newsletter - the latest edition of our communication for clients, including manufacturing industry insights and case studies
  Migration strategy - Changing capabilities in low-cost economies are constantly creating new opportunities for cost reduction and revenue growth
  PA survey - Transforming procurement: Leading organisations have realised only a quarter of the potential benefits from best practice procurement 
  Product optimisation - Radical value growth through product redesign and value chain improvement
  Profit up – cost down: product optimisation to reduce product costs by 25%
  RFID: Two emerging challenges to progress: Comment from the Financial Times and PA Consulting Group
  Supply chain agility is the key to winning new business
  Supply chain takes pole position - how to take and maintain a leadership position in supply chain performance
  Survey: Removing the barriers to successful purchasing initiatives; a PA/CIPS research study 2003
  Sustaining competitive advantage by sourcing from the optimal location
  The RFID revolution has started and it will impact your business. Should you act or react?
  The yellow brick road to low-cost economies? Migration remains a challenge
  Three routes to successful supply chain improvement
  Using Formula 1 cost engineering to win the product design race
  Viewpoint on manufacturing - Setting the leadership agenda
 

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Viewpoint on manufacturing - The five objectives your competitors are pursuing

Viewpoint on Manufacturing

PA's analysis of 65 manufacturing companies finds they share five key leadership objectives: innovation, cost reduction, offshore manufacturing, supply chain and brand values. Our latest Viewpoint journal for senior executives identifies the opportunities and recommends best practice for each of these imperatives. 

 Click here for further information and to request your copy.