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Whether you’re trying to establish, outsource or improve your manufacturing capacity, there are four steps D-Terra will take to help you optimize your TCO and find the best way to manufacture and deliver your product.

What is the unique TCO Model for your product?

You have a wide array of manufacturing options to choose from and we’ll help you find the one that best optimizes your TCO:

  • Client Needs analysis/priorities
  • Quality, Cost, Delivery goals/targets/quantification
  • X-factor identification
  • TCO Model customization and development
  • Roadmap

How do you implement your TCO Plan and launch your product?

Now that you know where and how you want to manufacture your product, there are a myriad of start-up details we help you work through:

  • Project planning and management
  • Engineering
  • Sourcing/Supply Chain Management
  • Quality planning and qualification testing
  • Production start-up and launch
  • Operational baseline metrics and scorecards

Now that you’re in production how will you continue to optimize your TCO long term?

A good plan is essential to launch your product successfully, but D-Terra can help you be flexible enough to adapt to changing conditions in order to sustain your optimal TCO over the life of the product:

  • Forecasting/inventory management
  • Production planning
  • Quality and process improvement
  • Engineering and change management
  • Logistics modeling and optimization
  • Key performance indicators: cost model realization
  • Lean/Six Sigma implementation

As your product moves inevitably through its life cycle how can you build upon its success?

Even the best, most successful products can’t succeed by standing still. D-Terra can help you determine how to sustain it, and find the next generation that will lead to even greater success:

  • Product feature changes
  • Continuous improvement and cost reduction
  • Next generation products/planning
  • Warranty/field service
  • End of Life considerations–environmental/landfill
  • Global TCO resourcing/relocating