WHO WE HELP

Manufacturing

Manufacturers today face a perfect storm—volatile demand, talent shortages, rising input costs, and geopolitical uncertainty. While short-term cost-cutting is tempting, strategic procurement is the most powerful lever to tackle these challenges and unlock long-term value.

At Efficio, we help manufacturers transform procurement into a source of resilience and competitive advantage. With experience supporting 1,000+ clients across 60+ countries—including leaders in manufacturing, mechanical engineering, and automotive—we bring deep industry expertise, a proven track record, and a flexible delivery model that adapts to your needs.

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Tailored support for the challenges you face

Whether you're adapting to protectionist policies, localising supply chains, or integrating AI and automation, our team is ready to help. Our flexible commercial models and delivery teams, including over 500 subject matter experts from around the world with various backgrounds and experiences, enable us to scale with your needs and integrate seamlessly with your operations.

We bring over two decades of experience helping manufacturers address the following:

Objective

  • Build a data-driven category management program that unifies direct and indirect spend under one playbook.
  • Use total-landed-cost analytics, demand management, standardization, and automated compliance controls to reduce price variance, shorten lead times, and free working capital.
  • Execution spans opportunity sizing, strategy design, competitive events (RFP/e-auction), contracting, and benefit tracking.

Benefits for our clients

  • Rapid access to cross-category expertise
  • Focused implementation & long-term value
  • Holistic sourcing strategy

Objective

  • Create parametric and bottom-up cost models that decompose parts and assemblies into material, labor, overhead, logistics, and margin.
  • Link models to CAD/BOM data and market indices to provide a defensible “should-pay” baseline for negotiations, budget approvals, and supplier development.
  • Feed insights into design-to-cost decision gates to prevent cost creep before tooling.

Benefits for our clients

  • Clarity on cost drivers and inputs
  • Supplier cost benchmarks
  • Informed sourcing & negotiation decisions

Objective

  • Run cross-functional VA/VE sprints that challenge specifications, materials, and manufacturing routes from concept through series production.
  • Apply function-cost mapping, platforming, and substitution to improve manufacturability, sustainability, and serviceability without compromising performance.
  • Involve suppliers early to surface innovation and accelerate change adoption.

Benefits for our clients

  • Lower direct costs & improved margins
  • Production scale efficiencies
  • Design-stage cost control, not reactive fixes at manufacturing stage

Objective

  • Optimise equipment and tooling investments across the full asset life cycle—from business case and requirements through RFx, negotiation, installation, and ramp-up.
  • Use digital-twin reviews and total-cost-of-ownership models to balance performance, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Embed performance guarantees, service levels, and regulatory/ESG compliance into contracts and track post-install outcomes (OEE, MTBF, energy use).

Benefits for our clients

  • Enhanced operational efficiency in response to market/ regulatory demands
  • Better financial alignment
  • Supply chain process improvement

Objective

  • Establish a resilient outsourced manufacturing strategy that aligns cost transparency, capacity reservations, and joint continuous-improvement targets with strategic contract manufacturers.
  • Cover the end-to-end flow—BOM teardown, DfM/DfT workshops, site audits, multi-round negotiations, and launch governance—to protect quality and time-to-market while ensuring multi-region supply options.

Benefits for our clients

  • Negotiation-ready EMS cost visibility
  • Cost savings via better cost insights
  • Continuous process and commercial improvements

Objective

  • Implement a repeatable decision framework that weighs total-landed-cost, capability, capital intensity, IP protection, quality, agility, and geopolitical risk.
  • Provide clear recommendations on insourcing, outsourcing, or footprint shifts, including ramp-up plans, exit/entry costs, and change-management implications.
  • Refresh the decision as demand, technologies, or market conditions evolve.

Benefits for our clients

  • Informed, cost-effective production decisions
  • Reusable framework for future Make vs Buy assessments
  • Strategic insight to reduce internal complexity

Objective

  • Use network-design modelling and scenario-based risk analysis to assign products to the best-fit sites across a global footprint.
  • Balance cost, service, risk, and carbon by evaluating logistics lanes, inventory policies, trade incentives, and regulatory constraints.
  • Deliver scalable ramp-up paths with contingencies to maintain service levels during transitions.

Benefits for our clients

  • Data-led plant selection based on cost, risk, and strategy
  • Scalable production ramp-up
  • Efficient, operationally feasible supply chain options

Objective

  • Partner with priority suppliers to embed Lean Six Sigma and Industry 4.0 practices on the shop floor.
  • Tackle yield, flow, setup time, scrap, and digital maturity with joint action plans that tie operational wins to commercial outcomes.
  • Establish governance, shared KPIs, and gain-share mechanisms to sustain continuous improvement.

Benefits for our clients

  • Lean six sigma improvements in supplier manufacturing sites
  • Strengthened supplier collaboration and continuous improvement

Objective

  • Rapidly expand qualified supply options through analytics-led market scans, RFIs/RFPs, and capability deep-dives.
  • Validate technical fit, capacity, quality systems, cybersecurity, and ESG credentials up front, then prove performance via pilot orders and PPAP/FAI as needed.
  • Maintain dynamic shortlists to inject competitive tension and accelerate NPIs.

Benefits for our clients

  • Quick identification of supply options and potential savings
  • RFP-driven validation of capabilities
  • Quality and compliance checks embedded upfront

Objective

  • Apply a multi-criteria country-selection model that scores cost, logistics, tariff exposure, incentives, political risk, talent availability, and ESG profile.
  • Build risk-adjusted scenarios and select best-fit countries for each category or product family.
  • Mobilise transitions with detailed change plans covering tooling moves, supplier onboarding, regulatory approvals, and continuity of supply.

Benefits for our clients

  • Country ranking based on detailed analysis
  • Implementation-focused, with benefits locked in through mobilisation

Procurement That Drives Real Business Impact

Our approach focuses on practical outcomes and measurable gains. We help procurement teams go beyond tactical sourcing to deliver strategic value across the business.

Here's how we do it:

  • End-to-end support: From strategy to execution, we stay by your side to ensure initiatives succeed and your team develops the skills to sustain them.
  • Cross-functional integration: We bridge gaps between procurement, engineering, operations, and finance to align on goals and accelerate delivery.
  • Digital transparency: Our platform enhances visibility across your supply chain, supporting analytics, ESG tracking, eSourcing, contract management, and more.
  • EBITDA-driven methodology: Our clients typically achieve savings of 10–25% through tailored solutions such as Should Cost Modelling, Production CAPEX sourcing, and EMS supplier optimization.

Whether it's optimizing spend, improving supplier performance, or building resilience into your global network, we tailor our approach to your business context and stay focused on long-term, sustainable results.

Building effective manufacturing and supply chain solutions together

As true partners, we roll up our sleeves and work alongside your team to drive meaningful change, helping you navigate internal dynamics, break down silos, and build consensus. Our proven approach is as readily adjustable to the needs of highly regulated and quality-sensitive industries as to those where service level and supply chain integration are key.

 

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