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Manufacturing

Biggins Lacy Shapiro & Co. offers a wide variety of services for manufacturing and distribution operations, ranging from location strategy to site selection and incentives negotiation. All services are customized to the unique needs of our clients.

Manufacturing

Biggins Lacy Shapiro & Co. offers a wide variety of services for manufacturing and distribution operations, ranging from location strategy to site selection and incentives negotiation. All services are customized to the unique needs of our clients.

Industry Overview

As global supply chain challenges continue to impact the manufacturing sector, developing a location strategy for your manufacturing operations is more complicated than ever. BLS & Co. helps clients determine the most strategic location for manufacturing plants and distribution centers to optimize operational efficiencies. Our experts are skilled at finding locations that balance optimal supply chain network designs with locations that also meet other operating requirements while minimizing cost and risk.

Location Strategy

BLS & Co. helps clients determine the most strategic location for manufacturing plants and distribution centers to optimize operational efficiencies. Our studies are designed to find locations that balance optimal supply chain network designs with locations that also meet other operating requirements and minimize risk. Services for location strategy and site selection include:

Logistics / Supply Chain Network Optimization

Evaluation of transportation costs, shipping methods, and service levels for existing and proposed manufacturing, assembly, and warehousing locations. BLS & Co. helps companies answer questions related to supply chain strategies such as:

  • FACILITY LOCATION STRATEGY
  • ~~Where should we locate our new operation?
  • ~~Do we need one or two plants or more?
  • CAPACITY EXPANSION/MODERNIZATION
  • ~~Should we expand here or into another facility?
  • ~~Are our facilities in the most efficient locations?
  • FACILITY RELOCATION
  • ~~Where is the lowest cost location that meets our needs?
  • NETWORK OPTIMIZATION
  • ~~Is our network optimized to balance cost and speed to delivery?
  • COMPANY ACQUISITION
  • ~~How do we rationalize and optimize two independent networks?

FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS

  • Evaluation of geographically variable operating costs and subjective factors affecting “Stay or Go” or expansion decisions.

ENERGY SERVICES

  • Assessment of utility infrastructure (electricity, gas water, sewer, telecom) for specificoperating needs, and available capacity
  • Analysis of reliability and redundancy requirements and utility options to meet that requirement, including for business continuity.
  • Overall utility cost analysis including initial capital and annual delivery and commodity cost.
  • Work with utility service providers to determine capacity and transmission changes, deposit requirement and refunding agreements.
  • Design and facilitation of utility installation.

LABOR MARKET ANALYSIS

  • Analysis of the labor pool, including wages, education/skill level, labor market stress, labor-management relations, productivity and training resources to meet current and future needs.

PROPERTY DUE DILIGENCE

  • Management of the site due diligence process including collection of critical property information and coordination of professional engineering studies. Aligned with the Incentives Negotiation process to ensure all site development incentives objectives are achieved.

Incentives Advisory

BLS & Co. provides the full range of services required to plan and execute incentives transactions, from initial evaluation of potential inducements, through structuring of incentives transactions, negotiation of documentation and the administration and claiming of benefits. BLS & Co services for incentives negotiation include the following:

Planning and Execution of Incentives Strategy

  • PRELIMINARY INCENTIVES ASSESSMENT
  • ~~Review incentives impact on consolidation or expansion, and related capital investment and staff movements.
  • ~~Impacts may be positive in “go to” locations and negative in “come from” locations.
  • EVALUATION OF INCENTIVE PROGRAMS
  • ~~Analyze likely range of incentives values as part of cost/benefit analysis for each affected business unit.
  • ~~Anticipate incentives positioning issues in preparation for potential new “project.”

Integration of Incentives with Site Selection

  • SERVICE INTEGRATION
  • ~~Integrating incentives throughout the pre -engineering and site selection process, from scenario development, through planning, due diligence and execution.
  • STRATEGIC PLANNING
  • ~~Alignment of incentives with the larger corporate real estate decision process enabling clients to achieve maximum value and flexibility.

Incentives Compliance & Administration

  • MANAGEMENT OF APPROVALS
  • ~~Manage formal approvals and finalize incentives agreements; provide post -closing “roadmap” of reporting & claiming requirements, including “claw -back” provisions.

Energy Services

Additional Capabilities

Representative Clients

Actega
BAE Systems
CPG International
Exide
FlightSafety
Honeywell
SKF
Subaru
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Colgate Palmolive
Eli Lilly
Cellectis, Inc.
Diamond Pet Foods
Biogen

Representative Clients

Actega
BAE Systems
CPG International
Exide
FlightSafety
Honeywell
SKF
Subaru
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Colgate Palmolive
Eli Lilly
Cellectis, Inc.
Diamond Pet Foods
Biogen

Case study

Colgate Palmolive

BLS & Co. recently completed an assignment for a 500,000+ sf manufacturing facility with 300 new jobs and a $200 million capital investment.

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Case study

Bristol Myers Squibb

BLS & Co. served as site selection and incentives consultant on two major projects for BMS, including a complex and highly competitive nationwide search for the location of a new $750 million biologics facility.

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Interested in Learning More?

Contact us today at 609.924.9775 or info@blsstrategies.comto schedule an initial consultation.