Cost Leadership
Further leverage scale to drive Cost Leadership
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Cost Leadership
Further leverage scale to drive Cost Leadership
Cost leadership is a core element of our competitiveness and one of the reasons why many customers have chosen to outsource their production to us.
Optimize productivity and reduce complexity
- Global network allows clustering of volumes
- Leading to optimized productivity and reduced complexity
- High level of customer service and optimized transportation costs
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Operational excellence
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- Improve internal processes for Finance Operating Excellence
- Expand scope of Shared Service Centers
Digitalization and automatization
- Smart factories
- Leveraging on global SAP and Salesforce platforms
- Further improve relationship management with customers and suppliers
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