Supply Chain Consultants
In addition to providing interim management services, Executive Interims - Supply Chain Practice provides clients with consultants formerly from "Big Four" consultancy firms, including:
There are also supply chain consultants who have expertise across these specialist disciplines. Supply chain consultants of this ilk may have particular expertise in the retail sector for example, where the need for an integrated approach between marketing, purchasing and logistics is essential, to ensure that product ranges yield maximum returns from retail shelf space without incurring the prohibitive costs of inventory redundancy. So for this reason, getting product selection, pricing, forecasting, inventory management and replenishment working together is crucial. Requirements for the skills of supply chain consultants with these skills are amplified because product life cycles are ever shortening, which means the chances of "getting it wrong" are substantially increased. The benefits of ensuring that functional specialists work together to optimise the performance of the supply chain can be extraordinary, and therefore the cost-benefit equation for using supply chain consultants like Executive Interims - Supply Chain Practice is often obvious.
Supply Chain Consultants - A Case Study: Pan-European Post Acquisition Integration
Client: Global Polymers Business
Team: Core team in UK and part-time members in NL and France
Client's requirement for supply chain consultants 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
Using Supply Chain Consultants - Benefits In retail environments for example, supply chain consultants can add enormous value by improving processes which support the following highly dependent cross functional activities:
Track initial sales of new SKUs to accurately forecast & re-forecast GM contribution
- Optimise category range planning to ensure the right mix of brands from value to premium segments, and in so doing.
- Optimise brands/suppliers to at least meet customer's expectations about range whilst maximising supplier volume consolidation and.
- Establishing national inventory profile rules.
- Which can then be appropriately bespoked to fit local demographics.
- Ensuring volume forecasts are consistently achieved to give suppliers sufficient confidence to maximise volume based rebates to.
- Drive down input costs and by establishing appropriate retail price points, maximise delivered GM.
- Drive inventory accuracy above 98% and ensuring that replenishment levels are >98% on time in full.
- Ensuring that redundant inventory is returned to suppliers on a regular basis.
Advantages of Using Executive Interims - Supply Chain Consultants Executive Interims' - supply chain consultants can be in a client's business within days of an enquiry and bring with them a lot of objectivity - and no political baggage. The approach can be particularly valuable when there's a need to bring in some additional resource to address a high profile / value / risk category of expenditure, particularly if the existing team is fully utilised.
Not only do Executive Interims' supply chain consultants bring with them the most up to date intellectual property, as far as supply chain management, they also bring a formal approach to change management and are highly focused on deadlines and deliverables.
Our supply chain consultants aren't looking for permanent roles - so they're non threatening and are visibly expert practitioners who quickly take the ownership, implement the solution & hand you the cheque. In short they specialise in delivering results not just recommendations.
Our supply chain consultants will always represent better value for your investment compared to a "Big Four" firm, either by virtue of their additional expertise or their lower total cost.. When the big supply chain consultancy firms de-layer their senior and middle management it's not untypical for Directors, Executive Consultants and Managing Consultants specialising in supply chain management to take golden parachutes and make themselves available through Executive Interims - Supply Chain Practice. So not only do our supply chain consultants understand the best supply chain intellectual property, they have greater expertise than their younger former colleagues, and better interpersonal skills.
And don't forget those expenses. Consultants from "Big Four" firms will expect to stay at the Hilton or the Marriott and you'll be expected to pick up the tab for the various trips on planes, trains and automobiles, whereas Executive Interims' supply chain consultants are more likely to arrive in their own car and stay at the local Holiday Inn Express.
Looking for Advice About Supply Chain Consultants?
Executive Interims - Supply Chain Practice is a specialist provider of supply chain consultancy and interim management services. If you'd like to know more about what our supply chain consultants can do for your business, contact us to explore the subject further.
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