Understanding how people, process and systems are preventing organisations achieve superior supply chain performance.

 

Working with the business and using tools such as SCOR©, we understand how supply chain strategy aligns with customers’ objectives and business strategy and how leadership aligns with and measures people to perform across the organisation.

photo-1454165804606-c3d57bc86b40.jpeg

Working with our customers through interviews and workshops our diagnostic approach can evaluate the constraints to achieving perfect service performance and best practice profitability, so that we get to understand all of the elements, test options and go on to design and implement forward-thinking solutions.

  • In Transport Chains

    • Increase throughput by focusing on optimising constraints

    • Differentiating between non-infrastructure constraints eg policy and infrastructure and equipment needs

    • Defining the business case and critical investment paths that optimise investments

  • In Organisations

    • Positioning products to best drive supply chain outcomes

    • Assessing processes and identifying changes to support service, inventory and total cost outcomes

    • Measuring process performance to achieve optimal outcomes

    • Aligning the organisation and roles and responsibilities

    • Determining the infrastructure, equipment and systems to optimise outcomes

  • Approach

    • Interviews and workshops

    • Process review

    • Supply chain and value chain analysis

    • Audits and diagnostics

    • Benchmarking and best practice

    • Risk, economic, simulation, optimisation modelling

    • Business case, concept, options analysis, selection, definition studies

  • Methodologies

    • Standard tool for supply chain management – supply chain operating reference model – SCOR© qualified trainer

    • Inventive problem solving (identifying benefits, costs and harms) technique – TRIZ©

    • Management philosophy that enables identifying constraints – Theory of Constraints – TOC©

  • Capabilities

    Our capabilities extend across the phases of operations and projects including:

    • Strategic planning

    • Feasibility, financial and economic analysis

    • Constraint analysis, optimisation and simulation and network design

    • Operations improvements including organisational change, process and systems

    • Scoping studies, project initiation and concept design

    • Program and project management

    • Due diligence for acquisitions and mergers

  • Services and Tools

    Checklists that help you determine your supply chain maturity

    • Diagnostic enquiry to evaluate your supply chain

    • Industry cost and service frameworks and methodologies

    • Simulation and Optimisation tools

    • Education on supply chain

    • Inventory, Demand and Integrated Business Planning Implementations