Turn your supply chain into a competitive weapon

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Our team of supply chain experts has tackled the toughest supply chain strategy challenges and produced significant value for our clients. Our ability to combine cutting-edge digital technologies, deep domain expertise and a rich database of industry KPIs into highly effective, customized solutions makes us the perfect partner to collaborate with on your supply chain reinvention. We not only integrate seven core capabilities, but augment that expertise with complementary skills and experience spanning change management, enterprise technology, digital transformation, and more.

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Why think in terms of reinvention? Because incremental improvements are no longer enough. The journey from suppliers at one end to customers at the other has many steps, and along the way there are any number of places where mis­takes, delays, unnecessary costs, inefficiency, poor communication and missed opportunities can creep in. So it’s not surprising that most companies have supply chains that underperform, typi­cally leaving 5 to 10 percentage points in potential gross margin gains—and often more—unrealized. 

 

 We provide the right mix of planning, technical expertise, specialized tools and ongoing engagement to bridge the gap between strategy and design, and ensure that your supply chain reaches its full, unconstrained potential.

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Companies often find themselves constrained by a complex manufacturing network. Assets, spin-offs and siloed investments are a common cause, as is the tendency to build expensive new plants to meet demand for a high-margin product. Complex regulations can pose a challenge, while asset- or plant-level throughput initiatives often fail to take into account the impact on the broader supply chain or manufacturing network.

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The results can be devastating:

• Poor service levels

• Declines in perfect order rates

• Low asset utilization

• Skewed capacity-to-demand ratios

• Frequent disruptions

• Slow or expensive logistics

 

We can help you redesign your networks using a proven, repeatable approach that begins with a detailed assessment of the current state, an analysis of future demand and a definition of what full potential can look like.

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From there we establish design principles and define service levels, use unconstrained thinking to envision an optimum future state, and launch an iterative process that strikes the right balance between actionable scenarios and the capital investments needed to achieve them.

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We believe there are three essential building blocks to sales and operations planning (S&OP):

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It should begin with strategic translation, to make sure that your top business priorities inform the choices you make about your network and operational parameters. 

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It should integrate with your demand and supply planning.

And, it should rely on metrics, root-cause diagnostics, feedback loops, and a variety of other tools and data sources to support continuous improvement.

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Our S&OP consulting expertise builds on those three elements by creating coordinated, cross-functional teams; applying clear governance and decision rights; integrating plans; connecting data systems; and developing the capability to identify the root causes of any problems or sources of underperformance.

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Our team of supply chain experts has tackled the toughest supply chain strategy challenges and produced significant value for our clients. Our ability to combine cutting-edge digital technologies, deep domain expertise and a rich database of industry KPIs into highly effective, customized solutions makes us the perfect partner to collaborate with on your supply chain reinvention. We not only integrate seven core capabilities, but augment that expertise with complementary skills and experience spanning change management, enterprise technology, digital transformation, and more.