Operations Footprint

A well-designed operations footprint drives efficiency, flexibility, and resilience. EFESO helps reconfigure networks to improve performance, safeguard supply chains, and capture new market opportunities.

Rethinking Operations Footprints in a Volatile World

Industrial companies face mounting challenges that reshape how they organize and manage global networks. Supply chains must be resilient and regionalized, able to withstand shocks and adapt quickly to disruption. At the same time, operations span continents, demanding footprint strategies that balance scale with market proximity.

Sustainability adds pressure, as footprint choices directly impact emissions targets and regulatory compliance. Trade tensions and geopolitical volatility make fixed strategies risky, while digitalization and automation must be built into footprint decisions from the start.

EFESO helps you create a robust operations footprint – the geographical distribution of production sites, warehouses, distribution facilities, and suppliers. Together, we strengthen resilience, safeguard delivery reliability, optimize costs, enhance utilization, and embed sustainability into operations.

Meet our Operations Footprint Leaders

Bas Koetsier

Managing Director & Senior Partner

Dr. Kai Magenheimer

Partner

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Real Results Achieved with our Clients

+5–9%

Increased revenue

+6–10%

Increased EBIT

-20–30%

Reduced capital spend

A Tailored and Pragmatic Approach that Fits your Reality

With EFESO, you assess the maturity of your operations footprint – covering supplier (incl. inbound logistics), manufacturing and distribution networks (incl. outbound logistics) to unlock potential for cost savings, sustainability, and supply resilience.

As external challenges increase – driven by volatility, disruptions, and demographic shifts, internal complexity grows through product variants, outdated legacy networks, and rising cost pressure. We help you navigate this landscape by designing a footprint aligned you're your corporate strategy. From there, we define short-, medium-, and long-term options in a clear target picture.

Working side by side with your teams worldwide, we analyze market-specific challenges and co-create an implementation roadmap with defined milestones – ensuring cost competitiveness increased revenue, optimized CapEx, and long-term strategic alignment.

Real Results Together

Operations Footprint Client Results

Explore Business cases & Client Results

Chemicals

One Operations Community: Strong Performance on Every Playground

A global chemical company launched a joint performance improvement initiative with EFESO across twelve plants on four continents. Significant improvements in cost drivers and margins were achieved.

Automotive and Commercial Vehicles

Private Equity

Automotive Supplier Doubles Scale Through Strategic M&A Integration

Industrial machinery manufacturer faced complexity in custom equipment production. We implemented modular design principles, standardized components, and optimized project management, reducing lead times by 40%.

Automotive and Commercial Vehicles

End-to-End Profitability Program for Global Automotive Supplier

Automotive supplier needed profitability improvement for complex drive components. We established end-to-end value optimization, supplier collaboration, and cost engineering, improving margins across entire value chain.

The EFESO Touch

We co-design future-ready operations footprints and empower your teams to implement network structures that support your business today and tomorrow. Success comes from aligning strategy, people, and execution into a transformation that lasts.

We start with strategy, using product and market trends to define direction and scope. Stakeholders are engaged continuously to ensure feasibility and ownership. Every decision is grounded in data, supported by targeted collection and cleansing.

We focus on feasible solution paths with clear roadmaps, risk awareness, and adaptability to changing conditions. Finally, we prepare your teams for transformation, embedding knowledge and capabilities so improvements progress with confidence.

Working side by side, we make footprint transformation measurable, sustainable, and resilient.