Supply Chain & Operations Strategy
Supply Chain Design & Engineering
Supply Chain Planning
Supply Chain Execution
Supply Chain Systems
Supply Chain and Operations Strategy
A strong and clear overall Business Strategy and Vision is the “starting point” for leadership for any company. SCAP helps its clients distil that Business Strategy, whether that include grow market share, improve profitability or develop new markets, and help clients establish a well aligned Supply Chain or Operations Strategy.
This may include the infrastructure, systems and capability considerations that need to be included for successful execution of the strategy. Detailed financial business cases will be needed to project capital and human investments in the supply chain and establish ROI’s, as well as risks, timing and other critical insights.
A company’s supply chain and distribution network may be challenged or constrained in supporting the new vision. Strategic network optimization initiatives may need to be conducted to better understand what the network “needs to look like” in terms of facilities, inventory investment and transportation network.
Other strategic services SCAP provides is the leadership and expertise in developing an appropriate Logistics Outsourcing Strategy as well as conducting Due Diligence reviews for possible acquisitions or mergers.
SCAP focuses on the following specific professional services in helping clients create the supply chain vision or roadmap and more critically how it will be executed.
- Logistics Outsourcing Governance
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We help our clients understand the opportunity and high level business case as well as the potential risks and benefits by outsourcing a current logistics function. Through our assessment of current capabilities, investments and overall company strategy and objectives, we provide a scorecard and roadmap for logistics outsourcing.
We typically help our clients answer the following questions:
- Is outsourcing a viable strategy and solution for our company?
- How can we best offset risk yet gain additional capacity and capabilities in an outsourcing environment to support our business objectives.
- What key considerations are taken into account as we consider outsourcing?
- What is the timeline, sequence of activities and gameplan if we want to pursue this direction?
- What is the business case for outsourcing a component in our supply chain?
- What activities should remain under our control and how do we raise capabilities in these areas if these should be core competencies.
- Mergers and Acquisitions Due Diligence
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We serve the private equity industry including venture capital, principal investing firms and institutional investors. Our consultants support our private equity clients in benchmarking and assessing operational performance of their target acquisition companies, validating projected efficiencies as well as identifying the organization, process and system constraints and capability in both a quantitative and qualitative manner.
We typically help our clients answer the following questions:
- Is the operational strategy and implementation roadmap sound?
- How long should the planned initiatives take and relative ease of difficulty?
- Does the company have the management capability to effectively execute?
- Can we validate the savings and efficiencies based on the company projections?
- Are the company systems and infrastructure aligned to their projected plans?
- How does the company line up when benchmarking its operations to same or similar industry leading performers?
- What gaps are present that may impact EBITDA and by how many basis points?
- Supply Chain Transformation
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We help lead, manage, change and introduce best supply chain management practices and provide the skill transfer to clients going through transformational projects in the supply chain of their busiess.
We typically approach these projects in the following manner:
- Once we understand the overall corporate strategy and objectives, we would conduct a current state assessment and gap analysis
- This would include a review of organization, processes, and systems supporting the current state
- Also included would be a benchmarking exercise to compare current state to comparable best practices
- We would then work with the organization to develop a vision of what type of supply chain organization, process and system requirements would be appropriate for the "future state vision"
- We then develop an execution roadmap that is time-phased and designed to build capability and building blocks for change and evolution to meet the future state vision
- Our firm then povides the hands-on leadership and subject matter experts to partner with our client to enable a successful transformation
- Strategic Sourcing
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We help our clients develop and implement leading practices in Strategic Sourcing and provide the tools, templates and seasoned subject matter skill transfer to enable improved capability and set a continuous improvemenet and self-sustained environment in place .
We typically approach these projects in the following manner:
- We conduct an in-depth assessment of the buying organization, its role in the business and how it ties to the overall supply chain or business strategy
- The assessment would include a review of organization, tools and systems used in the buying process and vendor management / contract development as currenty used in the business
- In some instances, based on available data and review of practices, we may benchmark an approximate savings opportunity dependant on category analyzed
- We would develop a gap analysis and opportunity roadmap that would prioritize and identify "quick wins", phrases and a pilot to prove the introduction of best practices in Strategic Sourcing. Appropriate tools, spend analytics and templates would be utilized in the pilot along with hands-on senior support to mentor the pilot team or individual
- We would support both the strategic and tactical approach and communication in dealing with a vendor as part of the Strategic Sourcing pilot and may be part of the support team for hands-on negotiation support to our client when introducing more evolved strategic sourcing approach with a vendor
- Team assessments may also be part of the assignment to identify specific training or skill set gaps in the current team
- Based on the pilot, we would apropriately support the roll-out across other commodities with the Strategic Sourcing teams and provide an execution roadmap for continuous improvement and self-sustained internal management
- Savings trackings and performance may also be a service provided through the rollout to other commodities
- Organization and Network Infrastructure
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We help our clients develop and refine their supply chain strategy as well as support the identification of the organizational and network requirements needed to successfully execute the strategy.
We typically help our clients answer the following questions:
- What is the roadmap over the next 3 - 5 years that identifies the actions for building integrated supply chain management as a strategic objective for our company?
- What are the phased actions and what results should we expect?
- What type of supply chain organization, leadership and capabilities are needed for us to successfully execute our strategy?
- What change management steps are needed to take us from current state to desired future state?
- What should our supply chain infrastructure be for us to support our company objectives for growth, improved profitability or market dominance?
- Strategic Business Case Development
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We assist our clients in developing the financial business cases that support supply chain infrastructure and significant organizational investments. These projects entail close interaction with senior stakeholders in an organization, deep insight to strategy and close knowledge of all financial information
We typically help our clients answer the following questions:
- If we were to merge our organizations, what would be the organizational model and infrastructure needed?
- What would be the investments and capital required for integrated start up and 5 year plan and what would be the payout for Return on Investment or Internal Rate of Return?
- What efficiencies and savings would result from a merger / reorganization or acquisition and what would be the recommended implementation strategy?
- What would the Implementation and Execution Plan look like in terms of steps, timing and resources?
