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• Global manufacturing footprint design is no longer simply about chasing lowest possible cost, but a complex and business-specific set of factors in a portfolio allocation problem balancing scale for cost against agility for service. This report, which draws on a survey of 330 supply chain practitioners and dozens of executive interviews, considers the four major strategies companies are pursuing – regionalisation, vertical integration, automation and modularisation – as they seek to push the frontier of efficient decision making and get to "Plant X”.

  
  
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