A Supply Chain Management Consultant from Executive Interims
An Executive Interims supply chain management consultant brings expertise in reliably delivering breakthrough levels of purchasing, logistics and operations performance improvement, on time and to budget. Our supply chain consultants do this using:
- Best Practise Supply Chain Improvement Methodologies
- Formal Programme And Project Management Skills
- Strong Analytical And Diagnostic Skills
- Sophisticated Relationship Building And Influencing Skills
Best Practise Supply Chain Improvement Methodologies
Before working for Executive Interims, a supply chain management consultant will have typically been employed within a "Big Four" consultancy firm. Each supply chain consultant therefore brings a highly sophisticated understanding of supply chain consultancy - including the most successful structured approaches, tools and techniques for delivering breakthrough performance in their specialist fields.
These typically address supply chain business processes and the infrastructure, which supports them, including the way in which the supply chain is organised. Improvements usually arise as a result of eliminating non-value adding activities, and adding back in activities, which add greater value to the overall process. So an Executive Interim - supply chain management consultant has to be a subject matter expert, with a thorough understanding of current best practise, but also enough practical experience to know which improvements will work best in different circumstances and also the most effective implementation routes to guarantee projects deliver clients' expectations.
Programme and Project Management
An Executive Interims supply chain management consultant will also bring formal programme and project management processes, tools and techniques to ensure that project is delivered on time and to budget.
Strong Analytical And Diagnostic Skills
There are usually plenty of opinions within an organisation about why it performs as it does; but whilst listening to the views of individuals within the business an Executive Interims - supply chain management consultant will always let the data speak for itself. To do this however, its first necessary to find the data, and even in sophisticated organisations this isn't always easy, but it is always worth it. Hard facts are persuasive; and hard facts presented in an easy to understand manner are even more persuasive. Rather than just to accept "received wisdom" a vital role of an Executive Interims - supply chain management consultant is to relentlessly encourage the team to analyse the data, diagnose the facts, draw conclusions accordingly and present everything transparently in a clearly understandable manner.
Sophisticated Relationship Building and Influencing Skills
A supply chain management consultant's role involves selling ideas, initially to the team with which they're working, but also ultimately to an organisation's leadership. This has to be done through the use of well structured and rational arguments based upon hard data to present a compelling business case which will convince an organisation's leadership to adopt the team's proposals. In fact, the role involves being able to interact successfully with a wide variety of individuals, disciplines, customers and suppliers throughout clients' extended supply chains.
Since we accept advice more readily from people we trust, relationship-building skills are a vital pre-requisite for constructively and sensitively challenging sacred cows and existing paradigms whilst facilitating the release of latent ideas and generating new ones. Therefore a supply chain management consultant must also have sophisticated people skills to quickly build quality relationships with members of the client's supply chain management team to be able to constructively influence the direction that they take; preventing them from going down blind alleys and guiding them towards more successful solutions and without necessarily having direct line management responsibility for them.
Engaging a Supply Chain Management Consultant
In addition to providing interim management services, Executive Interims - Supply Chain Practice provides clients with consultants formerly from "Big Four" consultancy firms, including:
Executive Interims - Supply Chain Practice is a specialist provider of supply chain management consultancy and interim management services. If you'd like to know more about what a former "Big Four" supply chain management consultant can do for your business, contact us to explore the subject further.
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