Supply Chain Consulting Services

Periodically, executive and senior consultants within the Big Four firms, take golden handshakes and make themselves available through us. Compared to most consultants, they typically have more experience, more sophisticated relationship-building skills, more hands-on line management experience in industry and yet they're less expensive than the Big Four.

Supply Chain Consultants - this article also includes a case study.
Purchasing Consultants - for the deployment of a strategic purchasing /procurement methodology to deliver step-change improvements in performance.
Transport Consultants - this article includes a case study of a network optimisation assignment.
Lean Manufacturing Consultants - whilst highlighting some of the tools and techniques used, this article discusses how moving a manufacturing operation towards a "cellular" architecture, can typically deliver labour savings of 20-30% and reductions in WIP / lead times of ~50% to liberate working capital.
Logistics Consultants - an introduction to our logistics consulting services with a brief case study.

Supply Chain Consulting - Background Information

Investing in supply chain consulting services is a big issue for any organisation and the process can be a minefield. Take a look at our guides to using supply chain consulting services below.

Why use supply chain consultants? The selective use of specialist supply chain consulting support can have a dramatic impact on business performance.
A review of many of the key areas in businesses that can be dramatically improved with our supply chain management consultancy services.
An overview of the range of supply chain management consulting services available from Executive Interims.
Typically just what are the the sort of financial benefits that supply chain management consultancy delivers?
Still some open questions about the support you're looking for? Before calling the supply chain consultants - ask these questions.
Drafting a set of terms of reference for a supply chain consulting assignment? Use this as a template.
Engaging a supply chain consultant? The different types of specialism within supply chain consulting and an insight into the approach in retail environments.
If you'd like to know "What Benefits Can An Executive Interims Logistics Consultant Deliver For Your Organisation?" follow the link above to our article.

How Our Supply Chain Consulting Services Are Different

Supply Chain Consulting

Supply Chain Consulting - Further Information

This article highlights the range of supply chain consultancy services currently offered by Executive Interims' former "Big Four" consultants.
An article about just some of the advantages of using supply chain management consultants.
Procurement consultants - typically delivering savings of between 15-35% of total acquisition costs for a category.
Some of the specialist skills that a supply chain management consultant brings to an assignment.
Ethical Sourcing Consultants Ethical sourcing challenges, particularly in PR China are extensive. Companies need to address a number of issues to protect their reputation for corporate social responsibility.
Too many purchasing specialists still believe that strategic purchasing is about consolidating volumes of expenditure, but ask any Big Four strategic procurement consultants and you'll find the story's just that little more complex...

Lean Manufacturing Consulting Services

When the success of a lean manufacturing implementation can mean reductions in working capital and lead-times of 50%, and a 20-30% lower head-count, it can mean the difference between competitiveness or closure.Even in non-manufacturing organisations implementing lean manufacturing techniques can make enormous differences.

Delivering that difference depends upon the track-record of the lean manufacturing consultant or manufacturing interim manager that you engage and their expertise in deploying lean manufacturing tools and techniques. Executive Interims - Supply Chain Practice's lean manufacturing consulting services have some of the best lean manufacturing consultants and interim managers available in the UK today;

What are your lean manufacturing challenges?

If you're considering using supply chain consulting services and you'd like to know more about what our supply chain consulting services can do for your business, contact us to explore the subject further.