Advantages of Using Interim Supply Chain Management
Interim supply chain management can be an excellent solution when dealing with high profile / value / risk projects and an already stretched team.
Interim supply chain management from Executive Interims will be more than happy to take ownership for implementing his or her proposals, often unlike consultants from the bigger consultancy firms. Our people pride themselves on delivering the solution AND handing you the cheque. Its not just about recommendations to us. It's about the results. Within days of an enquiry an interim supply chain management specialist can be in a client's business bringing a lot of objectivity - without the political baggage. The approach is very non-threatening to sensitive middle and senior managers, because they aren't looking for a permanent role.
Interim Supply Chain Management Case Study
Pan-European Post Acquisition Integration
Client: Global Polymers Business
Scope: Six plants across the UK , the Netherlands and France
Client's requirement for interim supply chain manager included experience of:
- Supply chain management in the polymers industry
- Business level French
Benefits:
- Replaced big name strategy consultancy's role in previous acquisitions
- Integrated key aspects of supply chain operations in UK , NL, France
- Implemented SAP 4.6 "Materials Management" in six plants across Europe
- Implemented purchasing cards
- Established a major UK warehouse
- First European supply chain conference
- Won business case for key part of supply chain organisation
- Delivered raw material savings 20% above annual target
- Agreements in place to deliver post acquisition synergies after 12 weeks
- Awarded two client awards for outstanding performance
What Do You Mean: Interim Supply Chain Management ?
For us the scope of supply chain management includes: inbound logistics, operations and/or manufacturing management, warehousing, customer service and outbound logistics (or distribution), purchasing, and their associated direct support services, such as plant maintenance, manufacturing engineering, supplier development etc.. This definition applies equally to service organisations including for example, call centres, financial institutions and charities as it applies to manufacturing businesses. Although in non manufacturing organisations there is usually less emphasis on warehousing, logistics and manufacturing management and more emphasis on operations management. The supply chain does not include any form of marketing, new product introduction process or support services such as Finance and HR.
There is a certain genre of interim supply chain management specialist that has expertise across these disciplines and this expertise profile is often of considerable interest to the retail sector in particular, where it is vital to get range selection, pricing, forecasting, inventory management and replenishment working hand in hand. As such, there is a need for close co-ordination between purchasing, logistics and marketing to ensure that product ranges generate maximum levels of gross margin from shelf space, without being penalised by significant inventory redundancy costs.
The requirement for the skills that this type of interim supply chain management specialist has to offer are emphasised particularly since product life-cycles are constantly being reduced, which means that there are ever greater opportunities for something to go wrong. By designing or re-engineering supply chain business processes to integrate the inter-related aspects of these disciplines, performance can be substantially enhanced. As such there are more often than not, substantial benefits from investing in an interim supply chain management . Benefits From Using Interim Supply Chain Management Services
As an example, in retail environments the right interim supply chain management services can add a lot of value by developing processes in support of the following highly dependent tasks:
- Driving replenishment levels up to >98% on time in full and
- Ensuring inventory accuracy is > 98% and
- Establishing robust processes to regularly return redundant inventory to suppliers.
- Tracking initial sales of new product lines to forecast & re-forecast gross margin contribution accurately
- Consistently achieving volume forecasts giving suppliers enough confidence to maximise rebates based on volumes to.
- Minimising total acquisition costs and by setting appropriate prices, maximising gross margin.
- Optimising range planning for categories, ensuring the right brand mix from premium to value segments, and by doing so.
- Optimising suppliers/brands to as a minimum meet customer's needs about breadth of range yet at the same time ensuring maximum volume through supplier consolidation and...
- Establishing inventory profiles nationally which can then be bespoked to fit demographics at a local level as appropriate.
Why Interim Supply Chain Management from Executive Interims?
If you're looking for interim supply chain management specialists or consultants, that's what we specialise in. Executive Interims - Supply Chain Practice has the best selection in the UK , particularly if you're looking for an:
Specialising offers a number of advantages over interim management agencies who cover everything from Finance, Sales, HR and Engineering/R&D and for whom Supply Chain usually represents less than 10% of their business.
If you need interim supply chain management services we:
- Tend to understand the technicalities better than interim management agencies, especially when the all of the requirements aren't explicit
- Have the best selection of interim supply chain managers in the UK - typically at least twice as many as interim management agencies.
- Profile the expertise of each interim supply chain manager exhaustively by expertise, role and industry experience. See how, with our supply chain expertise profiling demo . Just click on "Skills and Experience" and have a go.
- Won't offer you someone who we think is good, but hasn't quite done what you want before.
- Can typically offer clients an interim supply chain management specialists, who've done EXACTLY THAT before.
This means more benefits, delivered faster for our clients.
Don't Hesitate to Get in Touch
Executive Interims - Supply Chain Practice is a specialist provider of interim supply chain management and consultancy services. If you'd like to know more about what interim supply chain management from Executive Interims could do for your business, contact us to explore the subject further.
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