Expanding into Asia’s Fastest-Growing Markets: Manufacturing Location Strategies for Southeast Asia

September 2026: Recent shifts in global markets, supply chains and manufacturing economics are leading many companies to reassess their production footprint and location strategy.

BCI Global hosted a webinar focused on emerging manufacturing locations around the world. Southeast Asia is one of these emerging locations with the highest economic growth of the world. But how and where to organize your manufacturing set-up to take advantage of the opportunities in South East Asia from a manufacturing perspective? And more specifically, what have Malaysia, Vietnam and India to offer? This session combines market insights, decision-making frameworks and examples from recent international projects.

What is covered in this presentation:

• How can Southeast Asia support your company to diversify your global manufacturing footprint? China +1? Asia for Asia? Decentralized footprint from a global perspective?
• How competitive can new production plants be in India, Malaysia and Vietnam?
• Going beyond the popular manufacturing locations such as Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, Penang in Malaysia and Mumbai/Delhi in India, what are new hotspots for manufacturing?
• How to select the optimal location for your new manufacturing taking all cost factors, quality of the business environment factors and risk factors into account?
• How to go beyond desktop research results and take into account the reality on the ground?

BCI Global, a leading manufacturing & supply chain strategy & site selection consultancy firm (recognized by FORBES as one of the 200 World’s Best Management Consulting Firms) is a reliable, result oriented consulting partner, with a track record of 40 years, serving 2,000 companies. Over the past 12 months, our 10 teams in Europe, the US and Asia have completed:

• 20+ international manufacturing footprint projects
• 50+ location and relocation studies in North America, Asia and Europe
• Multiple automation versus labor feasibility assessments

Presented by:

•  Johan Beukema, Global Head Location Strategies & Site Selection, BCI Global, contact Johan via Johan.Beukema@bciglobal.com
• Luc Kremers, Vice President APAC, Singapore based, contact Luc at luc.kremers@bciglobal.com
• Saurabh Mehrotra, Director India, India based, contact Saurabh at saurabh.mehrotra@bciglobal.com