The epidemic, trade conflicts, and extreme storms are just a few of the recent market disruptions. The importance of resilient and sustainable supply networks is now recognized on a global scale. But for our company, it’s nothing new. For decades, we have assisted clients in acquiring these qualities.
We are the ideal partner to work with on supply chain reinvention, whether you want to perform an end-to-end strategic transformation or targeted solutions for individual links in your operations. To develop highly efficient, unique solutions, we bring together our in-house digital capabilities, extensive domain knowledge, and comprehensive database of important performance indicators from your sector. Our track record in fields like change management, sustainability, digital transformation, and others complements our knowledge in the supply chain.
Supply Chain Reinvention can assist you in gaining a competitive edge regardless of where your business sits on the supply-chain maturity curve. And in nearly every other industry, including consumer goods, advanced manufacturing services, energy, and natural resources, we have assisted businesses in overcoming capacity constraints, and margin pressure, embracing cutting-edge digital technologies, and completely aligning their supply chains with their strategic goals.
The route taken by value on its way from suppliers to end customers is frequently one that is global, complex, and fraught with opportunities for value to be lost due to errors, delays, unneeded expenses, inefficiency, poor communication, and missed opportunities. Therefore, it is not unexpected that the majority of businesses have underperforming supply chains, which typically result in unrealized gross margin increases of 5% to 10%, and frequently much more.
You need a supply chain that can satisfy both your investors and your price-conscious customers while also being resilient, responsive to complicated consumer needs, and differently enabled. To bridge the gap between strategy and design, we offer the ideal combination of planning, technical know-how, specialized tools, and continual involvement to make sure your supply chain realizes its full, unrestricted potential.
SUPPLY CHAIN & REINVENTION
Supply Chain Reinvention can assist you in gaining a competitive edge regardless of where your business sits on the supply-chain maturity curve. And in nearly every other industry, including consumer goods, advanced manufacturing services, energy, and natural resources, we have assisted businesses in overcoming capacity constraints, and margin pressure, embracing cutting-edge digital technologies, and completely aligning their supply chains with their strategic goals.
The route taken by value on its way from suppliers to end customers is frequently one that is global, complex, and fraught with opportunities for value to be lost due to errors, delays, unneeded expenses, inefficiency, poor communication, and missed opportunities. Therefore, it is not surprising that the majority of businesses have underperforming supply networks.
You need a supply chain that can satisfy both your investors and your price-conscious customers while also being resilient, responsive to complicated consumer needs, and differently enabled.
To bridge the gap between strategy and design, we offer the ideal combination of planning, technical know-how, specialized tools, and continual involvement to make sure your supply chain realizes its full, unrestricted potential
SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAIN & OPERATIONS
Companies are making changes in response to consumer demand for sustainable products, water scarcity, decreasing carbon emissions, fair work, and these issues. In many ways, a company’s supply chains are vital to its sustainability plan and essential to its success. Every element of a supply chain interacts with a variety of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) challenges that characterize sustainability, from design, sourcing, and manufacturing through delivery, usage, and disposal.
We can assist you in addressing pressing concerns at every stage of the value chain so that your operations and supply chain transition from a conventional, linear strategy to a circular ecosystem that upholds the 5 R’s (rebalance, reduce, reuse, recycle, and remanufacture). We can support your efforts by assisting with the accurate assessment of your ESG starting point, the structuring of your sustainability goals, the implementation of organizational and operating models that enable you to execute your sustainability strategy throughout the entire value chain, and the implementation of traceability, metrics, and digital solutions.
We can also ensure that you stay clear of pitfalls that can hinder your efforts to integrate sustainability into operations, adopt best practices that are essential for doing so, integrate sustainability into your procurement process, and create a network of partnerships that can offer the specialized knowledge you need to advance more quickly. Our tried-and-true method will help you achieve short-term success while keeping you on pace to realize your long-term goal. Your supply chain won’t just be more durable and dependable; it’ll also become the backbone of your sustainable operations strategy, allowing you to take the lead and keep it.
NETWORK OPTIMIZATION
Companies often find themselves constrained by a complex manufacturing network. A major cause is a desire to develop pricey new operations to match the demand for a high-margin product. Other common causes include assets, spin-offs, and solo investments. While asset- or plant-level throughput initiatives frequently neglect to consider the influence on the wider supply chain or manufacturing network, complex regulations might be a hurdle.
We can assist you in redesigning your networks using a tried-and-true methodology that starts with a thorough analysis of the existing situation, a forecast of future demand, and a specification of what full potential might entail.
Then, using unrestricted thinking to picture the ideal future state, we build design principles and service levels. Finally, we initiate an iterative process that finds the ideal balance between actionable scenarios and the capital investments required to accomplish them.
Our strategy yields excellent outcomes, including increases in CAPEX and gross margin, decreases in shrink and logistics costs, and notable enhancements to service levels, inventory turns, customer satisfaction, and other areas.
INTEGRATED BUSINESS PLANNING (IBP)
To ensure that your main business priorities are considered when deciding on your network and operational parameters, it should start with the strategic translation.
It must to be integrated into your supply and demand forecasting.
To promote continuous improvement, it should also rely on metrics, root-cause diagnostics, feedback loops, and a range of additional tools and data sources.
By forming coordinated, cross-functional teams, implementing clear governance and decision rights, integrating plans, connecting data systems, and developing the capability to identify the root causes of any issues or sources of underperformance, our IBP consulting expertise builds on those three elements.
Due to their improved capacity to fulfil demand, our clients have increased revenue by as much as 8%. Pricing improvements are made possible by higher levels of customer service. Thanks to better planning abilities, inventory can be reduced by up to 25%. EBITDA margin can increase by up to 3 percentage points as a result of lower operating costs. Up to 30% more accurate forecasts are produced. And since they have the appropriate inventory in the right place at the right time, on-time delivery increases by as much as 15%.
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
There is an “efficient frontier” in every supply chain that establishes the trade-off between inventory levels and service level performance. Most businesses choose to carry too much inventory instead of approaching that frontier as closely as they could, which results in subpar service level performance.
This is due to a variety of factors, including the misuse of inappropriate safety stock algorithms, the complexity of SKUs, a lack of ownership over metrics, inefficient promotions, and many others.
In order to achieve step-change gains in inventory efficiency, we work with businesses to enhance inventory management. First, we assist you to get closer to the existing efficiency frontier. Planning, acquiring, producing, distributing, managing your product portfolio, and your manufacturing network is just a few aspects of your supply chain design and operations that we can assist you with. Along with that, we assist you in integrating digital capabilities throughout your supply chain.
In order to name just a few outcomes, we have assisted businesses in the retail, advanced manufacturing, consumer products, energy & natural resources, healthcare, and many other sectors to reduce non-seasonal inventories by 25%, increase the inventory-to-sales ratio by 4%–5%, and achieve a 15% overall shrink reduction.
TRANSPORTATION & LOGISTIC
Finding the ideal ratio between cost, investment, and service levels depending on segment demand is necessary for being a leader in transportation and logistics.
We assist businesses in accomplishing that through a strategy that consists of three key components.
Adapt your whole customer service and logistics strategy to determine the best service levels based on customer needs.
Network optimization: Assess resource sharing across units and make a crucial choice regarding what to own and what to outsource to a 3PL.
Excellent logistics and customer service: Improve your logistics operations’ warehousing, transportation, and order-to-cash processes.
We also assist your teams to develop the skills required to enable continuous improvement by introducing cutting-edge digitization and automation solutions wherever they provide value. The end result is a 10% to 25% reduction in logistics expenses, an increase in on-time and complete deliveries to >95%, and a decrease in Capex on infrastructure
Our supply chain knowledge is backed up by a variety of complementary skills that guarantee you the best outcomes.
We integrate the appropriate digital technology at critical supply chain nodes. For instance, intelligent automation can speed up your operational procedures while enhancing flexibility and customizability. End-to-end visibility and collaboration, including with 3PLs, can improve operational planning, increase responsiveness, and enable greater product and input material traceability. Our digital portfolio also includes crucial components like sophisticated R&D management, planning and forecasting abilities, and a variety of tools and technologies that increase staff productivity.
We will assist you in addressing key organizational components of an efficient supply chain, such as the appropriate level of centralization and the types of decision-making, governance, and related working arrangements that will guarantee that your supply chain achieves its full potential.
Additionally, sustainability is vitally crucial. We can assist you in defining your sustainability goals and developing a compelling business case for sustainability that takes into account cost savings, business opportunities, risk mitigation, hiring, or a mix of all four.
PROCUREMENT
A company’s purchasing cost base can be reduced by world-class procurement groups by an average of 8%–12%, and they can also produce extra yearly savings of 2%–3%. In order to find and generate savings across all spending categories and procurement levers, we engage directly with your team. We also improve your organizational capacities so you can maintain these gains over the long term.
With the help of our strategic procurement planning process, you can create a plan for achieving savings that are based on thorough cross-functional coordination and steadfast attention to your overarching company goal.
Budget and target setting, which includes creating quarterly and yearly budgets, a target for annual procurement savings, and periodic revisions to quarterly budgets as necessary, is the first stage in our four-step process.
Reviewing category and supplier performance, reviewing the use of properties, and gathering customer feedback are all included in carrying out the operating strategy.
As a result, you are able to book a realized EBITDA impact each quarter, book gaps, validate EBITDA impact, amend the budget as necessary, and discuss outcomes with leadership.
In order to achieve the intended end state, we work with you to make sure corporate finance, program management, and strategic sourcing remain in alignment. To make it simple for you to monitor the program at a high level and dive down as necessary, we also generate the appropriate KPIs and dashboards.