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Manufacturing

Margin visibility, supply-chain tax and controls for manufacturers operating plants, suppliers and customers across borders.

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Overview

Manufacturers run on thin margins and long supply chains. Small errors in costing, inventory or the tax treatment of cross-border flows compound quickly, and the information leadership needs to manage margin is often buried in operational systems.

Costing and margin you can trust

We help manufacturers build product and customer profitability that reconciles to the accounts, so pricing, sourcing and investment decisions rest on real numbers rather than standard costs that drifted years ago.

Global supply chains

Sourcing from one country, assembling in another and selling in a third creates questions of customs value, indirect tax, transfer pricing and permanent establishment. Supply-chain shifts, including the move of capacity into India, make those questions urgent. We help groups structure supply chains that are efficient and defensible.

Sector challenges

What manufacturing businesses face

Margins nobody can explain
Revenue grows while margins drift, and costing systems cannot say which products or customers are responsible.
Inventory that misleads
Valuation, obsolescence and stock counts are a recurring source of audit adjustments and management surprise.
Cross-border supply-chain tax
Moving goods and components between countries raises customs, indirect tax and transfer pricing questions that interact.
Capital decisions on old information
Plant, capacity and sourcing investments are decided on models that do not reflect current costs.

How we help

The services manufacturing clients use most

Questions clients ask

Manufacturing: frequently asked questions

Can you help us move manufacturing capacity into India?

Yes. We advise on the entry structure, incentives, supply-chain tax, transfer pricing and the reporting set-up for new Indian operations.

Do you help with product and customer profitability?

Yes. We build profitability models that reconcile to the statutory accounts and update as costs change.

How do you approach inventory in an audit?

We focus on the areas most likely to be wrong, such as valuation, slow-moving stock and cut-off, and agree the approach with management before year end.

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