The Full Story
End-to-End Supply Chain Consulting Services
Our supply chain strategy consultants work with our clients to enhance supply chain resilience, mitigate risk, and optimize value to the enterprise. We assess current supply chain operations, design the future state supply chain model, and build the business case for implementation. Our strategy consulting also includes an evaluation of your need for new supply chain management systems or opportunities to leverage supply chain outsourcing service providers. Finally, we will assess your current supply chain processes and their need for improvement.
SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGY
Our supply chain strategy consultants work with our clients to enhance supply chain resilience, mitigate risk, and optimize value to the enterprise. We assess current supply chain operations, design the future state supply chain model, and build the business case for implementation. Our strategy consulting also includes an evaluation of your need for new supply chain management systems or opportunities to leverage supply chain outsourcing service providers. Finally, we will assess your current supply chain processes and their need for improvement. Our supply chain consultants work with you to identify the capabilities–whether internal or external–to realize the supply chain strategy. We design the supply chain organization, develop the implementation road map, and assess your organization’s readiness for the change, along with the change management framework for sustainability and value realization.
SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION
The best supply chain strategy means nothing if it is not implemented. This is where our supply chain program management consultants come in. Here, we can lead or co-lead the supply chain program management office (PMO) and oversee the implementation plan, ensuring that value is not lost due to cost or schedule overruns.
Our services include reviewing and approving service provider implementation plans, establishing key performance indicators, launching the implementation program, overseeing execution, and supporting the transition to the future state.
Supply chains should not be static. They should evolve as business conditions change. Suppliers need to be continually evaluated to ensure they are delivering value and, if necessary, replaced with new suppliers.
On the customer side, buyer demand patterns need to be continually evaluated to ensure that the supply chain is responsive to changes in volume and product mix.
Our supply chain consultants stay involved with our clients to support them in quantifying the value realized, ensuring partner performance, and establishing a continuous improvement framework.
SUPPLY CHAIN ENABLEMENT
Enablement is the key phase in planning and preparing for the realization of the future state supply chain
Our supply chain consultants work with you to identify the capabilities–whether internal or external–to realize the supply chain strategy. We design the supply chain organization, develop the implementation road map, and assess your organization’s readiness for the change, along with the change management framework for sustainability and value realization.
Supply chain enablement includes selecting and contracting with supply chain technology products and service providers, based on our strategic sourcing methodology.
Related Reports
The procurement business function has traditionally been cost-focused; however, with the changing business dynamics, the procurement business function is playing a much more strategic role in enterprise growth and resilience.
At the Supplier Level
For many years, companies have been under pressure from regulatory bodies, customers, and activists due to their procurement of goods from suppliers engaged in unsustainable practices. These practices include discharging toxins into rivers, subjecting employees to unsafe working conditions, and neglecting to monitor carbon emissions. These companies encountered multiple challenges when consumers became aware of their supplier activities. The most significant was the damage to the organizations’ reputation, leading to a loss of customer trust and diminished brand value.
China Diversification Strategies and Options for Relocation
China’s economic and geopolitical ambitions have created political and business instability with its global trading partners. As a result, many western companies with manufacturing operations in China or significant sourcing from China are pursuing a diversification strategy. This report summarizes the factors that are driving western nations to diversify their operations out of China as well as options for new locations.
Procurement Business Process Transformation
This RadarView helps enterprises to identify key service providers who can enable them to digitally transform their procurement function. It begins with a summary of key trends that are shaping the procurement business process transformation space. We continue with a detailed assessment of 14 providers offering services in the procurement business process transformation market. Each profile provides an overview of the service provider, its key IP assets for procurement transformation, and a list of clients and partners, along with brief client case studies. Each profile concludes with analyst insights on the provider’s practice maturity, domain ecosystem, and investments and innovations.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What is a supply chain?
A supply chain is an end-to-end network of suppliers to fulfill an ultimate customer’s demand for a product or service. In other words, your supply chain includes your suppliers, your supplier’s suppliers, and so forth, all the way back to raw materials.
What is supply chain management?
Supply chain management includes the people, processes, and technologies that organizations use to manage their supply chains. It includes supply chain planning to support the planning of supply and demand, both within the organization and also across the supply chain of customers and suppliers.
What are supply chain consulting services?
Supply chain consulting refers to professional services that advise clients on supply chain design and the implementation of supply chain management systems. It includes supply chain assessments, supply chain strategy consulting, supply chain design, supply chain implementation, supply chain optimization, and ongoing support for supply chain governance.
What do supply chain consultants do?
Supply chain consultants work closely with the client to understand the unique characteristics of the client’s business model and supply chain. They then assess the people, processes, and technologies that are used in supply chain management.