“Top Supply Chain Performers Blow Competition Away”
“For the third year in a row, the Supply Chain Top 25 portfolio of companies (as ranked by AMR Research) outperformed the market, this time by a wide margin. The average total return of the Top 25 portfolio for 2007 is 17.89 percent, compared with returns of 6.43 percent for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and 3.53 percent for the S&P 500. Clearly this is a group of companies that excels, strongly weathering the ups and downs seen in the market this year”
AMR Research / January 09, 2008
“- - - - - experiences are demonstrating that shareholder value is improved dramatically when companies reach higher levels of operational excellence. Supply Chain Management, when planned, designed and executed effectively, is the key to achieving high levels of operating performance which, in turn, drives shareholder value.”
Gene R. Tyndall, Author
Supercharging Supply Chains
Challenged by today’s business complexities that erode supply chain performance; many enterprises are finding inventories growing, tying up much needed cash. Yet, even with increased inventories, businesses are struggling to have the right product in the right place to service their customers.Their lead times are expanding and supply cost cost escalating, further eroding sales margins. Supply Chain Optimizers (SCO) can help address these issues and establish proven integrated business processes that will create the High Performance Supply Chain Enterprise.
SCO helps companies create balanced global supply chains that are:
- Customer Centered
- Cost Effective
- Environmentally Correct – with built-in Sustainability
Our Services
Single Point Solutions
The SCO professionals can successfully drive transformation across a wide range of areas critical to achieving a High Performance Supply Chain and at the same time implement single point solutions within any of the supply chain verticals to provide quick relief to nagging issues in daily operations:
- Inventory Planning/Inventory Control
- Warehouse Management
- Transportation Management
- Import/Export operations & compliance
- Purchasing/Materials Management/ERP
- Lean Manufacturing/Materials Replenishment
- Distribution/Service Parts Management
- Sales & Operations Planning/Forecasting
- Returns Management
- Outsource Management
Supply Chain Analyzer
SCO can provide a high level evaluation of your supply chain through its Supply Chain Analyzer. This will chart your current performance against benchmark performance and your current processes against best practices. This valuable information can be used to set the supply chain performance improvement strategy, size the activity, prioritize the improvement tasks and set the expectation of the return from achievable business results. A good start to any improvement mission, the Supply Chain Analyzer is designed to deploy quickly (usually one week) and be very affordable.
Performance Management Business Diagnostic
To solve your most complex supply chain issues and uncover opportunities for vast improvements in supply chain performance and bottom line business results, SCO, through its Performance Management Business Diagnostic will expertly deploy:
- Business Process Management
- Business Transformation Management
- Business Systems Applications
Past results from Performance Management Business Diagnostic solutions are:
- Reduce in-process & finish goods inventory by 48% and 50%
- Reduce product total inventory by 57%
- Cut cycle time by 58%
- Reduce manufacturing supply chain process costs by 59%
- Improve material availability to manufacturing by 48%
- Increased productivity of redesigned distribution/logistics process by 23%
- Cost reduce transportation/logistics by 5% to 18%
To view a sample of our success stories, click here.
Learn more about our Performance Management Business Diagnostic, click here.
Advanced Performance Management Tools
To solve the most complex customer service issues with the right inventory investment, at the right distribution channels, with the right global supply sources and the right plant product source locations, SCO, through its Advanced Performance Management Tools, will expertly deploy:
- Network Optimization
- Inventory Optimization
We will deploy a holistic approach optimizing the entire supply chain and performing due-diligent risk management. We will harden your supply chain, mitigating the effects of threats to interruption of supply.
Past results from deploying Advanced Performance Management Tools are:
- Increase service levels 9% while reducing inventory.
- Improve line order service levels from 85% to 93% and reduce global inventory by 25% while sales increased 8%.
- Saved 6% of supply chain cost with reconfigured distribution network.
- Optimized supply network saves 8% - 12% (in excess of $100M) of total cost.
To learn more about our Advanced Performance Management Tool Set click on Network Optimization and/or Inventory Optimization
Performance Management Monitor
In order to protect the investment made in performance improvements and assist in gaining a speedy ROI, SCO, through its Performance Management Monitor will install a Dashboard Set within the inspection process to keep performance on track by viewing the KPI’s (key performance indicators) at appropriate intervals through the echelon of performance indicators.
SCO’s Supply Chain Expertise
SCO’s associates have many years of both operating and consulting experience in improving supply chain performance. We have people who have headed up supply chain departments for manufacturers and distributors competing in food service, retail, industrial, consumer package goods, healthcare, scientific and international business segments. Being practitioners, our consultants not only are expert in supply chain strategy and best practices but know how to implement the transformation process. Each consultant having project management, quality management and change management experience. They have operated in the real world, experience where it counts. Each SCO consultant has international experience with a focus on Asia, particularly on doing business in China. Meet the leaders of the SCO Supply Chain (SC) Performance Management Practice: Chris Graham, John Fragale, Ray Klim and our expert senior consultant associates. (click here to view bios).
Contact SCO today, begin the journey to High Performance Supply Chain Management
“Leadership is about transferring the best practices”
“No other time has the executive suite been tasked to achieve more ambitious results with fewer resources.”
“What is missing is the expertise in business processes, technology, outsourcing or program management bench strength to deliver on promises.”
Jack Welch, former CEO
General Electric
