Industry consolidation, digital transformation, sustainability, reshoring, and industry diversification are all trends driving M&A activity in the manufacturing industry. In today’s rapidly changing and uncertain environment, strategic M&A provides opportunity amid global and domestic unpredictability. Discover how your manufacturing company could explore M&A as a dynamic strategic vehicle to drive expansion, growth, and financial performance.

Does your manufacturing company struggle with manual processes, siloed data, and lack of real-time insight into operations? Smart technology is revolutionizing traditional manufacturing, but it can come with considerable price tags. The truth is smart manufacturing isn’t an option — it’s the inevitable future. Learn how your manufacturing company can harness Industry 4.0 technologies that lead to greater flexibility in processes, increased productivity and revenue, and higher-quality production.

Geopolitical complications, labor shortages, and continually shifting optimum manufacturing locations are creating extreme disruption and challenges for manufacturers. From managing evolving trade and tariff policy to sourcing and tracking, the strength and flexibility across your supply chain must be assessed. Learn how you can make your supply chain more agile, adaptive, and sustainable — with technology as the enabler — starting with our supplier risk assessment guide.

Nearly every financial decision related to your manufacturing business has tax implications, and it’s critical that you’re continually informed at the federal, state, local, and international levels. The passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) created sweeping tax credits and incentives for manufacturers — are you taking advantage of the IRA and other tax laws? Dig deeper into how manufacturers can specifically benefit from Section 45X advanced manufacturing production credit as well as other tax credits and incentives to help offset tax liabilities.

Manufacturing executives are spending considerable time managing transformation and disruption and too often forget about their strategy. Whether it’s leaning into a more flexible operating model or achieving greater efficiency through AI/machine learning, automation, and robotic process automation (RPA) to stay competitive, manufacturers need to invest in smart technology — and even smarter and more flexible practices — to drive operational efficiencies and improve utilization.

Do you know where you’re making money and where you aren’t? Poorly designed or implemented costing and estimating processes can do more harm than good. Whether you’re adapting to changes to your cost structure from personnel, infrastructure, or operations or trying to address flat or negative margins, understanding your true cost and margins is critical. Learn how to quickly adapt to changes like supply chain disruption with an adaptive, predictive cost and margin intelligence model.