The manufacturing sector has a unique potential to expand value and supply chains, create secure jobs and diffuse wealth throughout a society. In Mozambique it currently contributes about 9 percent to GDP and 0.8 percent to employment. It has shown stronger growth in the last few years, despite this, the sector is still small and can be characterized as “low tech.”
Nevertheless, Mozambique has several advantages that give the sector a bright future. Mozambique has good transport linkages to South Africa (the Maputo Corridor), Malawi and Zambia (the Nacala Corridor), Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia and DRC (the Beira Corridor), competitively priced supply of labour and a wealth of natural resources that present opportunities for processing.
Much of Mozambique’s economic development has been led by mega-projects in the manufacturing and extractives sector. The ongoing development of Gas Projects in Cabo Delgado and other extractives industries also offers many opportunities for the manufacturing sector, offering a guaranteed source of demand for large quantity orders of goods and services.
Manufacturing Services in Mozambique
Manufacturing can be complex and costly. You need to source the right parts and materials, select a suitable factory and deliver designs to the assembly line in a timely manner. Then you have to navigate the compliance and security challenges required to scale globally, all while controlling expenses.
Having an experienced, connected guide can make all the difference. From startups to enterprises, our manufacturing experts can ensure your prototype is the product you deliver to your customers — at entrepreneurial speed. So no matter what size your business is, the process doesn’t hold you up. A prototype is a major milestone — but you still have plenty of road ahead. Let us help you scale.
Here at Serviços Moçambique we help you understand the manufacturing impact of design decisions, ensuring you’ve designed for manufacturability. Furthermore, we give you the short-term staff expansion of engineering partners with proven skills in a wide range of disciplines.
- Cost Estimates: carry out a detailed BOM analysis to help clarify the total manufacturing costs, whether that’s setting a baseline, drilling down on SKU costs or a top to bottom budget
- Component Sourcing: strong research carried out before manufacturing plans are completed provides insight on lead time, cost and inventory of critical components to your design
- Quality Strategy: planning is essential to delivering the user experience in your product that your customers expect
- Functional Requirements: clearly catalog all of the critical product behaviors and how they’ll be validated
- Durability and Life Testing: understand how to simulate the real world conditions that your product will need to stand up to.
At Serviços Moçambique we work closely with every partner we recommend, and we remain actively involved to ensure the work is done—and done right. To make sure you are properly served we perform an exhaustive review of any potential partner, including going through specific projects they’ve completed. Our extensive, local and global network of vetted and trusted contract manufacturers ensures that the handoff between the fast-paced planning processes supported by great technology actually results in the best fit solution.
Will assist you throughout the whole project when it comes not only to what kind of partner you need, from OEM, ODM, or hybrid JDM, but also options both local and offshore. That process includes:
- Factory Selection: once we figure out your product roadmap, we’ll reach out to trusted contacts globally through factory discovery, matching, RFQs and quote analysis
- Factory Audits: partners need to continually meet standards, so we’ll do frequent inspection and evaluation of any factory’s manufacturing framework through both expert review and metrics-based evaluations
- Quality Planning: tailored standard QA protocols are crucial parts of the actionable plans factories need to manufacture to the right specifications—so we provide functional and aesthetic tests along with verification, validation and future proofing to help deliver the best possible product.
It’s expensive to hire hard-to-find experts in emerging or specialized technology. It’s time-consuming and complex to find quality design and manufacturing providers that can handle the tricky handoff from idea on a page to product in hand. What’s more, it’s challenging to ensure both quality and security of intellectual property throughout the design and manufacturing process.
Serviços Moçambique will be fully available and acting as your one partner from specification to production, while checking in with you every step of the way to ensure that we’re helping you meet your business objectives in Mozambique.
We can handle the qualification, monitoring, procurement and through our trusted partners the warehousing and testing challenges such as: local and overseas, complex, substrate, high density, test platforms, design for manufacturing, prototype and product validation tests (PVT), quality, engineering and process.
Moreover, Local Content policies are usually designed by policymakers to pursue targets such as industrial development, job creation, value addition, and better value chain incorporation. Governments have been using local content requirements for quite some time and in Mozambique there is a tool known as Local Content Law which orientates this process. And this can be made simple through our services which we will guarantee transparency in the implementation process, measure, monitor and evaluate policy outcomes and promote strong coordination and collaboration in order to ensure successful implementation.
Furthermore, we can assist you with local hiring, transfer of skills/knowhow or training of national staff in order to meet your job requirements.
The expertise you need to move forward
Doing Business in Mozambique
We are passionate about helping our clients achieve practical results with real impact!
Serviços Moçambique operates in line with international standards, policies and procedures. Our set of core values and a strong code of ethics guides our business decisions, creating a corporate culture that fosters teamwork, intellectual growth and leadership.
Our dedicated team of professionals and collaborators include key players from all sectors across Mozambique, business managers, entrepreneurs, project engineers, HR specialists, attorneys and research specialists with extensive experience in the local and regional market. We are deeply engrained in the culture, language, laws and local regulations of this unique market allowing us to tailor solutions to our clients’ needs.
We have been providing high-quality consulting and procurement services in Maputo to a diverse base of clients from sole traders to multinational enterprises across a variety of industries and sectors, mining, manufacturing, construction and finance among others. The wealth of experience we have gained from our clients also fortified our role as top notch business development advisors.
We operate in Maputo, Pemba, Beira, Tete, Nacala and Nampula, dedicating all of our resources to the long-term success and general well-being of our clients.