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 Transformation: Assessing the current state of the supply chain function, design the desired future state, and what it will take to get there in terms of people, processes, systems, data, and governance.
  • End-to-End Supply Chain Optimization: Designing effective and efficient supply chain processes, from demand planning to sourcing suppliers at one end to procurement, receipt, and fulfillment to customers at the other end.
  • Procurement Strategy: Zeroing in on procure-to-pay processes to optimize the procurement function in terms of people, processes, technology, and potential use of business process service providers in select roles.
  • Vendor Management Strategy: Assessing and segmenting the supplier base, identifying new sources, qualifying and certifying them, and managing their performance.
  • Risk Management: Understanding where there is risk of supply chain disruption, establishing systems to monitor risks, and proactively mitigating those risks, for example, through sourcing alternative suppliers or buffering inventory. For many organizations, one specific need is to have a China Diversification Strategy to proactively reduce their dependence on China-based suppliers
  • ESG Strategy: Aligning the supply chain to achieve environmental goals around greenhouse gas reductions, social goals around supplier diversity, and governance of the entire program.

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.