CORE OFFERINGS

Supply Chain Transformation

Supply chain transformation is targeted at clients seeking to re-position their supply chain for significant and sustainable value creation.

The key objectives are:

1. utilising the supply chain as means to create competitive advantage in the marketplace

2. increasing the scope of the supply chain from functional domains to a more holistic view (i.e. cross-functional, relationship with other internal units, and extended supply …..chain)
3. deploying an appropriate balance of internal and external capabilities

Supply Chain Merger Integration

Pre- and post-merger integration support targeted at ensuring that supply chain costs, capabilities and capacities optimally meet the needs of merged organisations. This offering identifies and rationalises redundant operations, systems and processes while laying a foundation for future growth and success.

Supply Chain Collaboration

Supply Chain Collaboration is primarily defined in five core categories:

1. Integrated Supply Chain Management: Internal collaboration to balance expected demand with supply.
2. Collaborative Planning and Forecasting: Sharing of forecasts and supply plans with business partners as well as commitments against those.
3. Collaborative Order and Inventory Management: Sharing of transactions like POs, SOs, GRNs etc. with business partners.
4. Collaborative Data Management: External and Internal master data management of material, vendor, capacity, product configurations etc.
5. Collaborative Transportation Management: Collaboration with 3PL providers at both planning (e.g., planned shipments, routings etc.) and operational levels (ASNs, BoL …..etc.).

Sales & Operational Planning

The objective of S&OP is the formulation of a single plan that articulates the sales, materials requirements and distribution,  targets to be achieved throughout the business in the future.

Flow Path Analysis

Balancing the tradeoffs between customer service levels, inventory deployment, transport lanes, and distribution network nodes.

Transportation

Transport covers all movement of orders through the network:

1. Transport Value Assessment;
2. Third Party Logistics Strategy
3. Transport Provider Selection
4. Transport Optimisation
5. Capacity Management
6. Multi-modal Operations

Warehouse

Warehousing includes the physical facilities and operational capabilities to process orders. Supporting companies  to diagnose improvements to their warehousing operations, and address opportunities in a number of areas:

Technologies: Implementing technologies like WMS and auto-id (i.e. barcoding and RFID)

Workforce: Improving the efficiency of their warehouse organisation

Facility Operations: Conceptual Design, Facility Design, Facility Integration, MHE Sourcing, MHE Implementation

Third Party Logistics: Evaluate options for using a 3PL provider, and manage the selection and implementation processes

This will also include activities such as go-live support, warehouse relocation planning and management, as well as annual stock take planning and management.

Reverse Logistics

Reverse Logistics comprises many aspects of after sales support to include customer returns, field service and maintenance, asset repair/refurbishment, asset tracking, service parts fulfillment, recycling, and disposal.

The movement of goods from the consumer back to the seller, the booking of the returns transaction, and the disposition of the returned good from seller to manufacturing are also elements of Reverse Logistics.

Procurement Strategy & Planning

Balancing the tradeoffs between customer service levels, inventory deployment, transport lanes, and distribution network nodes.

Supplier Management

The focus of supplier development is achieving clear operational improvements along the following key parameters using the QCDDMS framework (Quality, Cost, Delivery, Design and Development, Management and IT Systems).

Sourcing & Procurement Process Management

Supporting our clients with the development and management of various sourcing and procurement activities. This could include product sourcing, RFx management and implementation.