Factory relocation, Have you thought about it?

Some of our factory relocation services

• Negotiations with Landlords
• Specialist advice on factory layout
• Specialist advice on lean manufacturing
• Sourcing  best value local trades
• Sourcing the right plant and machinery removal firm
• Negotiating best value quotations on your behalf
• Interfacing with utility suppliers
• Planning the move schedule
• Scheduling new works and exit dilapidations
• Overseeing contractor activities.
• Managing marketing and customer communications
• Sourcing printers,  telecoms support,  IT  support and web designers

Factory Relocation can bring many benefits to a growing business. It can lead to reduced utility overheads, improved production flow, improved logistics, better management visibility and tighter integration of the processes. It sends a positive message to the market.

When the decision is made to move your business, the enormity of the task can be daunting. The potential disruption to your senior staff and their focus on the ongoing business can be costly. Inexperienced management of the relocation process can also lead to unnecessary costs arising from contractor errors, contractor omissions, lack of time spent driving down competitive quotes and dealing with landlords.

Using experienced factory relocation Project Management will bring many immediate benefits including contractor and dilapidation cost savings, time efficiency and reduced disruption. The savings in management time and contractor costs will often significantly outweigh the relatively small cost of short term interim support.

Factory Relocation Project management – the key benefits

Lets you focus on running the business rather than getting distracted with the move. We take the load, we research competitive contractors, we schedule and manage the move and, we use our experience to help you avoid expensive mistakes. We save you time and money.

Keeps you at arm’s length from the initial negotiations on cost and time. Your hand is strengthened, your time is saved and the end result will be lower costs and better cash flow terms.

Having relocated factories many times before, we have developed checklists which can be tailored to suit the specific requirements of the business involved.  Using checklists ensures that nothing vital is neither forgotten nor left until the last minute.

We are aware of likely problem areas affecting time delays and unexpected costs. We will provide adequate warning so that these can be avoided.

Moving factory can be an excellent opportunity to improve your manufacturing efficiencies. We work with specialist associates who can help.

We source reputable contractors to provide competitive quotations. We make the time to conduct professional competitive quotation reviews, presenting you with best value choices. This can save you considerable costs.

Grant funding is sometimes available for factory relocation project management. If so, we will seek this for you.