Our CAC’s manufacturing and technology strategy for Greece

Our CAC’s basic strategy for Greece’s manufacturing and technology plan to help establish new manufacturers and technologies Greek manufacturers face a challenging business environment due not only to the COVID-19 pandemic, but poor or non-existing Government support and a credible manufacturing plan to boost Greece’s economy. Hence, in general terms, the result of poor investment and growth hampered is due to low business and consumer confidence. Creating a competitive business and manufacturing environment • Nesara will solve the massive deterrent investing in manufacturing in Greece by eliminating nearly all taxes that cripples businesses and their ability to function and grow. Taking action to eliminate nearly all taxes, significantly lowering energy costs via the use of Tesla free energy, eliminating most of the regulatory burden, will most definitely open up manufacturing and trade opportunities and improve our industrial relations system. • Encouraging the highest levels of technology investment. • Ensuring the education system is providing workers with the skills to support uptake of automation, data analytics and artificial intelligence. • Building business management capabilities. Building scale • A necessity to establish strategic and comparative strengths and leveraging for procuring manufacturers via attractive propositions . • Supporting greater levels of collaboration between businesses and researchers so that they can understand the benefits of innovation, harness world-class research capabilities and by translating our ideas into commercial outcomes. • Increasing opportunities for Greece’s manufacturers to improve their capabilities and shift up the value chain. • Enabling CAC partnerships with various levels of government to build scale and better leverage investment. • Sending a strong signal that Greece is open for business and that CAC’s and government are backing our manufacturers. Boosting supply chain resilience • Recognising the value of domestic manufactured items to drive local and international demand for our high-value goods. • Working across and within various “supply chains” to discover new business opportunities, strengthen relationships, and expand sources of supply. Immediate actions CAC and government will need to procure or establish industry and to co-design road maps that outline the vision, opportunities, actions and key milestones for our agreed priority areas. Road maps to recovery and beyond The CAC will partner with industry to immediately lay the groundwork for prioritising and boosting collaboration and investment in our Greece’s Manufacturing Priorities. We will facilitate a co-designed process with industry-led expert teams to develop road maps against each of the National Manufacturing Priorities. Together with industry, we will identify the roadblocks to growth and actions to overcome them. We will need to create a “Industry Innovation and Science Greece” body that will have a key advisory role on the road maps and investment decisions. The road maps will outline: • a shared vision by CAC, government and prospective manufacturers for manufacturing in each priority sector • opportunities and barriers to achieving “economies of scale” in manufacturing • opportunities for exports, global market diversification and foreign direct investment • sector-specific Key Performance Indicators and performance metrics to assess growth in manufacturing over time • common views on new approaches which could deliver improvements in capability • identification of opportunities for partnerships which deliver on the objectives of the Strategy Our CAC’s vision Greece to be recognised as a high-quality and sustainable manufacturing nation that helps to deliver a strong, modern and resilient economy for all Greeks. This can be achieved through four pillars The Strategy is for the proposed CAC and Greek Government’s action plan to develop manufacturing to deliver positive economic outcomes and create jobs. Pilar One: Getting the economic conditions right for business • Helping restore business confidence and recovery through the creation of a JobMaker plan • Delivering the latest energy technology to minimize manufacturing costs • Building management capability • Introducing Nesara law eliminating unnecessary and crippling taxes. • Tackling “red tape”, allowing for quicker actions and enforcement of business strategies. • Improving our industrial relations system The second pillar: Making science and technology work for industry: • Aligning research and innovation capabilities and programs to priority areas • Unlocking investment proposals through the Manufacturing Modernisation Fund round two • Backing digital transformation The third pillar: Focusing on areas of advantage: • Setting National Manufacturing Priorities and developing road maps for action • Backing projects with wide reaching impacts through the Modern Manufacturing Initiative The fourth pillar: Building national resilience for a strong economy: • Making supply chains more resilient to external shocks including through a Supply Chain Resilience Initiative • Supporting global market diversification Our CAC, Government and industry will need to come together to make bold changes that will create strong, resilient, thriving and internationally competitive manufacturing businesses. 2 years Create the business environment to support manufacturing jobs and encourage new investment. 2-5 years Support a more industry-focused science and technology system which helps boost productivity, scale and competitiveness. 5-10 years Lock in productive and competitive firms with high impact sectoral growth. Greece’s National Manufacturing Priorities There are manufacturing growth opportunities with the potential to deliver long term transformational outcomes for the Greek economy. • Hi tech quantum technology manufacruting including computing hardware and software • Quantum Medical technologies and manufucturing. • Resources Technology & Critical Minerals Processing • Agriculture, food & beverage • Tourism • Automotive and future anti-gravity transportation • Housing construction • Recycling & Clean Energy • Defence • Space exploration Strategy for local, decentralized manufacturing The problem with Greece’s current centralized business and employment is that the majority of the business owners and workers are located at Greece’s major cities, hindering both business and employment opportunities in the regional areas. Our CAC plans on adopting a Decentralized manufacturing strategy with the government which simply refers to manufacturing performed locally as opposed to being centrally manufactured in one location and then distributed far and wide. The goal with decentralized manufacturing is to build as well as provide employment opportunities across Greece and not just in Athens or Thessalonika. As an example only, within the borders of Greece, this would look like a large automobile manufacturer having plants in each Greek state, rather than having a few huge plants in select cities. Having one manufacturing facility outside Athens for example, would be centralized manufacturing. Having facilities in each state would be decentralized manufacturing. Advantages of our CAC’s decentralized manufacturing The optimal decentralized manufacturing setup would: • Provide employment opportunities in every state in Greece • Lower distribution costs to local markets • Lower warehousing costs • Improved lead times • Improved efficiency of just-in-time manufacturing processes By being closer to the customers they serve, businesses can seek local employment as well as more quickly gather insight into how customers use their products and what improvements or customizations they want. They will also be able to deliver faster and iterate on product designs more quickly. This will result in better customer satisfaction on many fronts, with the added benefit of reducing the transportation burden associated with returns and other unsavory logistics scenarios. Labor availability across your footprint A critical part of adopting a decentralized manufacturing strategy is for a manufacturer to manage their labour capacity properly. They will need to be flexible and agile as traditional staffing won’t work here with new technology programs; a fact that many proponents of advanced manufacturing technology are quick to point out. Automation is prohibitively expensive for most companies right now, so the best solution is one that involves people. We believe the best way to handle fluctuations in demand is a mix of full time employees and on-demand labor. Decentralized manufacturing companies using on-demand labor will have full time employees for their baseline demand and build flexible capacity for handling anything above that. This lets them optimize their labour capacity, so that they have enough to meet minimum demand and can easily change their capacity day to day to match the much more volatile demand profile of a local operation that demands customization. On a final note, traditional methods and practices of business management decision making will change with the advent of Gesara law and the QFS. Manufacturers will be supported by our CAC with employment strategies as well as financing capital investment at zero percent interest, thus establishing the perfect strategy in procuring investment in manufacturing with subsequent employment opportunities across Greece and not just in one centralized area.