Operational Strategic Planning generates medium and long range solutions to competitive issues. Many companies create business and functional strategies as the foundation for annual operating plans. The Operations Strategic plan answers many fundamental questions including:

• Make-Buy: which manufactured or repaired items to make or buy
• Factory rationalization: Where to make each product, where and when to grow or consolidate
• Competitive performance objectives: level of performance required to overtake important competitors and what capabilities are required to attain that result
• Customer driven performance requirements: What direction are customers expectations going and how to respond
• Supply base Strategic Planning
  • Buy-Buy rationalization
  • Strategic Procurement contracting practices
• Materials Architecture design and implementation
  • Architecture redesign for improved performance

CBS Consultants have led the development of Operational Strategies for numerous notable companies including AlliedSignal/Honeywell and Intuitive Surgical, as well as many emerging companies owned by private Venture and Equity Capital groups.