Manufacturing & Distribution | National Practice

Helping you manage your business from multiple perspectives

CBIZ helps more than 5,000 manufacturers and distributors maintain optimal operational and financial performance through periods of both disruption and stability. Applying a consultative approach tailored to company size and structure, we provide guidance on multiple levels — from navigating a changing business climate to turning industry trends into opportunities for business growth.

Our extensive experience in the sector and unique range of services provide the professional support you can depend on to help you develop and retain your staff, best serve your customers, manage new risks in a digital and global economy, and make informed decisions no matter where you are in your business’ lifecycle.

Financial Services

Capitalize on your operational and financial strategies

CBIZ’s industry-experienced financial professionals take an advocacy approach to help clients develop strategies for business sustainability, maximize business growth and tax planning opportunities, and assist with accounting and reporting functions. Our valuation and deal advisory teams offer you expertise and advocacy when transactions are included in your plans for growth or succession.

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Risk Solutions

Safeguard your workplace, tighten operations and build sustainability

As the industry accelerates adoption of technology and digital operations to streamline production and supply chain management, opportunities increase — but so does risk. CBIZ risk advisory professionals help you identify and manage your internal risk environment with internal audit and cyber consulting. CBIZ insurance professionals help you mitigate the impact of standard business hazards and growing concerns, such as climate and cyber threats, with comprehensive programs of risk transfer.

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Employee Solutions

Attract, engage and retain your workforce and management

CBIZ helps you attract, retain, support, engage and manage your entire workforce with efficiency and an eye on cost. We help you build a benefits strategy that balances skyrocketing health care costs, changing compliance mandates and evolving HR administration with the changing needs and expectations of a generationally and geographically diverse workforce. We provide retirement plan design and investment advisory solutions as well as a human capital management (HCM) solution that brings your entire employee lifecycle into a single solution. And, of course, our executive search professionals know how to attract and recruit the best talent in the market for your company’s key roles and functional disciplines.

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March 26, 20245 Actions You Can Take to Prepare Your Operations for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Sunset

The countdown is on. The increased estate and gift tax exemptions established by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 are scheduled to sunset as of Dec. 31, 2025. With Congressional intervention looking increasingly unlikely, the valuable tax advantages will expire, returning to 2017 levels, adjusted for inflation.

Stay ahead of the curve with our comprehensive analysis of the pivotal risks shaping the manufacturing landscape in 2024. Equip your business with the insights needed to thrive in an ever-evolving market.

The supply chain disruptions sparked by the pandemic and ongoing geopolitical conflicts exposed several weaknesses in the system. As manufacturing and distribution firms look to the future, one thing is clear — after three years of supply chain bottlenecks, there’s no going back to the old normal.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is driving business transformation across industries. In the manufacturing and distribution industry, experts predict that the increasing implementation of AI will be more modernistic than the introduction of automation and mass production in the 1950s.

Sustainability initiatives driven by environmental concerns and social changes continue to gain momentum among businesses, investors and consumers. Across industries, nine in ten companies have adopted or are developing formal environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies.