Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Use supply chain and manufacturing operations to create winning strategies
Take a holistic approach to transformation to capture end-to-end value
Transform manufacturing processes for better productivity
Boost operational health by identifying skill gaps and building capabilities
Foster a quality culture to create competitive advantage
Leverage digital and autonomous supply chain opportunities

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How product-focused operations can accelerate global shipbuilding
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Article
Supply chains: Still vulnerable
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Survey
Breaking operational barriers to peak productivity
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Article
Is your frontline workforce strategy right for where you are?
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Blog Post
Organizational evolution and getting empowerment right
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Article
Today’s industrial revolution calls for an organization to match
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Blog Post
Unlocking frontline workforce stability and productivity in operations
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Interview
Supply chain ‘goes rouge’: Inside Coty’s makeover
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Article
Automation and the talent challenge in American manufacturing
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Blog Post
Manufacturing needs a makeover
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Article
Decarbonizing logistics: Charting the path ahead
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Article
From AI to Impact: Capabilities powering Lighthouses’ 4IR adoption
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Article
From hire to inspire: Getting—and keeping—Gen Z in manufacturing
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McKinsey Direct
Why flow matters most in highly complex manufacturing
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Production line for lithium battery cells for the automotive or e-bike industry.
Article
The battery cell component opportunity in Europe and North America
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How manufacturing’s Lighthouses are capturing the full value of AI
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McKinsey Direct
Vital signs: Emergency medicine for distressed manufacturing sites
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McKinsey Direct
A new holistic view on circular value chains
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Blog Post
Harnessing generative AI in manufacturing and supply chains
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Blog Post
2024 tech takeaways for leaders
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Article
Adopting AI at speed and scale: The 4IR push to stay competitive
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McKinsey Direct
More uptime, lower cost: Boosting organizational health in maintenance
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Blog Post
Canal delays and the impact on global supply chains
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Article
Tech-enabled transformations: Three supply chain success stories
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Article
Today’s good to great: Next-generation operational excellence
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Article
Digital twins: The next frontier of factory optimization
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Article
Getting warehouse automation right
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Robot picking a box in a manufacturing factory.
Article
Digital logistics: Technology race gathers momentum
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Article
Tech and regionalization bolster supply chains, but complacency looms
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Article
Boosting Vietnam’s manufacturing sector: From low cost to high productivity
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Case Study
Solving the digital manufacturing disconnect: A case study
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Control panel. Plant for the production of steel
Article
AI: The next frontier of performance in industrial processing plants
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Blog Post
Supply chain resilience—in China and everywhere else
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Blog Post
Ops 4.0—The Human Factor: Apprenticeships today for skills tomorrow
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Operational efficiency: A clear path to outperformance in distribution
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Podcast
Moving supply chain leaders to the C-suite
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Blog Post
Ops 4.0—The Human Factor: It takes two to build capabilities
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A group of printing plant engineers talking and working together at a large console
Article
When technology meets operational excellence
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Article
The next frontier of customer engagement: AI-enabled customer service
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Battery recycling takes the driver’s seat
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Article
Maintenance and operations: Is asset productivity broken?
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Taking off: Scaling complex manufacturing in the aerospace industry
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Indirect manufacturing costs: An overlooked source for clear savings
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Chemical plant at dawn in Kawasaki, Japan
Article
A new operations formula for the chemicals sector
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Article
The winning recipe for transforming advanced planning systems
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Article
Battery 2030: Resilient, sustainable, and circular
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Article
The next chapter: Lighthouses shape the Fourth Industrial Revolution
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Commentary
Failure is not an option: How to get resilience right
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Semi truck on highway in front of a building near the US/Mexico border
Article
To regionalize or not? Optimizing North American supply chains
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Worker pulling pallet truck inside a food distribution warehouse
Article
Great service—but who’s paying?
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Podcast
Digital twins: Flying high, flexing fast
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Podcast
114 down, 10 million to go: The Global Lighthouse Network’s mission
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Chemical plant with solar power station
Article
Building sustainability into operations
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A bank of electric car chargers
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Power spike: How battery makers can respond to surging demand from EVs
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Medicine
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Reimagining the future of biopharma manufacturing
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The scaling imperative for industry 4.0
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Emerging from disruption: The future of pharma operations strategy
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Podcast
Digital twins: What could they do for your business?
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A more resilient supply chain from optimized operations planning
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Article
Harnessing volatility: Technology transformation in oil and gas
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Delivering the US manufacturing renaissance
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Taking the pulse of shifting supply chains
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Blog Post
Ops 4.0—The Human Factor: Powering the learning and development engine
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Article
How mining companies reach the operational excellence gold standard
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Blog Post
Ops 4.0—The Human Factor: The need for speed in building skills
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Two engineers having a meeting in front of industrial robots welder in production line.
Article
Converge IT and OT to turbocharge business operations’ scaling power
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Two workers talking in a factory
Article
Transforming advanced manufacturing through Industry 4.0
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Mastering the dual mission: Carbon and cost savings
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Future-proofing the supply chain
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Advanced tech elevates process modeling in batch-processing industries
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A better way to drive your business
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Supply chains: To build resilience, manage proactively
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Outsprinting the energy crisis
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Capturing the true value of Industry 4.0
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Navigating the semiconductor chip shortage: A control-tower case study
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Lighthouses reveal a playbook for responsible industry transformation
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Podcast
Smart operators: How leading companies use machine intelligence
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Warehouse manager talking with a team of workers
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Transforming supply chains: Do you have the skills to accelerate your capabilities?
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The mainstreaming of additive manufacturing
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Carton and bar code, commodity inspection and transportation, 3D rendering
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Autonomous supply chain planning for consumer goods companies
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Toward smart production: Machine intelligence in business operations
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Three senior engineers using computer in warehouse
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To improve your supply chain, modernize your supply-chain IT
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Featured experts

Matteo Mancini
Senior PartnerRiyadh
Leads McKinsey’s Operations Practice and advanced industries initiatives in Middle East, Africa and Central Asia, guiding manufacturing...
Ulf Schrader
Senior PartnerHamburg
Leads McKinsey’s manufacturing and supply chain work, serving companies on operations performance transformations, operations...
Raffaele Carpi
PartnerLisbon
Leads operations-performance transformations that deliver bottom-line impact across manufacturing sectors
Rehana Khanam
PartnerLondon
Drives large-scale performance improvement and capability-building programs as a leader of our operations work
Enno de Boer
Senior PartnerNew Jersey
Leads the firm’s global work in digital manufacturing and collaboration with the World Economic Forum on technology adoption
Neelesh Mundra
Senior PartnerMumbai
Leads McKinsey’s manufacturing and supply chain endeavors in Asia while supporting logistics projects for the region.
Olivier Noterdaeme
Senior PartnerBrussels
Coleads QuantumBlack, a McKinsey company; serves clients in asset-heavy industries by leveraging advanced analytics
Sven Houthuys
PartnerAmsterdam
Advises and serves consumer-packaged-goods and energy-sector companies, with a focus on digital, capability building, large-scale...
Cinzia Lacopeta
Solutions Associate PartnerMilan
Coleads the firm’s Innovation & Learning Centers in Europe and North America; focuses on building lasting capabilities on relevant...
Kristian Kinscher
PartnerDüsseldorf
Helps global pharmaceutical companies transform operations, redefine strategies, and innovate in R&D

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