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Strategic Objectives for Manufacturing

Strategic planning is the process of focusing on a specific area of your business and then developing plans to maximize its profitability or efficiency. It is best to develop one strategic plan for each individual goal, and then monitor the progress of the plan to make any necessary changes. There are several strategic objectives for manufacturing that can help your company add profit to its bottom line while improving work conditions.


Improving equipment maintenance will extend the machine's life, maximize its efficiency and make it safer for your employees to operate. This strategic objective also requires the establishing of regular schedules that include machine maintenance and the procurement of necessary maintenance supplies. There also needs to be an objective that trains employees on proper equipment maintenance.


Safety objectives in the manufacturing area of a company improve productivity by reducing time-lost accidents and allowing qualified employees to remain on the job instead of being out due to injury. There needs to be a list of objectives that identify areas where safety is a concern, such as equipment operation and the posting of safety signs throughout the facility, and then those objectives need to be carried out and maintained to remain effective.

Production Goals

A quantifiable strategic objective for manufacturing is creating production goals for each manufacturing segment. These goals are created in conjunction with sales projections that establish the demand numbers that the company uses as manufacturing guidelines. Each employee should be given objectives for maintaining production volume, and those numbers should be evaluated regularly to determine if training or other changes need to be implemented to achieve the objectives.

Production Methods

The more efficient a production method is, the less it costs to execute. Strategic objectives for improving production methods look for duplicate processes that can be eliminated, production methods that can be combined to lower costs and ways in which materials can be procured to increase efficiency. For example, a strategic objective for production methods may be to lower the cost of stocking raw materials for the production process. Perhaps the analysis shows that there only needs to be three months' worth of supplies on hand to maintain production levels and that the company is currently stocking six months' worth. The objective would then be to lower the stock levels to three months' worth to lower storage costs.