We Help Our Clients Reconcile Visionary Strategies with Pragmatic Initiatives Delivering Incremental Value

Transformation Strategy

Advanced interactions with executives focused on pain points and opportunities end to end across the supply chain will deliver an initial benefit assessment.  Coupling these goals to current state architecture and considering near term project imperatives, we will map out a 3-5 year journey of budget-aware systems implementations in alignment with enterprise visibility, analytics, and intelligent insight objectives. 

  • Portflio Assessment, Digital Ideation, and Initiative Prioritization

  • Information Technology Platform Strategy

  • Scoping & Estimation of Supply Chain Modernization & Digital Initiatives

  • Organizational Impact Insights & Recommendations

  • Transformation Roadmap Delivery & Socialization

Transformation Planning

Too often driven by technology cycles, supply chain application investments are critical to maintaining an infrastructure capable of responding to disruptions across industries.  The evolution of SaaS based applications offers both opportunities and challenges – the stakes are high and careers can be affected if rigor is not placed in vetting internal organizational objectives and readiness.  The process of developing a program charter combines education with discovery and when executed correctly, results in consensus around desired outcomes and the importance of the program’s success. 

  • Stakeholder Alignment & Program Charters

  • Integrated System Architecture & Analytics Design

  • Scope, Schedule, and Roles & Responsibilities

  • Sourcing Strategies & Vendor Selection Methodologies

Strategic Partner Ecosystems

Choosing the best partner has always been an important step in any technology project, with robust selection processes playing a critical role in ensuring functional fits and driving organizational consensus.  In today’s world, it is far more challenging as major vendors embrace a SaaS future, but face a variety of challenges in attaining both the solution architecture as well as the operational model.  

As niche providers join major consultancies with a mix of business process outsourcing and hosting models, weighing the tradeoffs of strategic vendor directions, readiness, effectiveness, and cost often warrants industry expertise to help facilitate the process while offering insights into the partner strategy best suited to deliver success for your organization.  

  • Vendor & Service Provider Insights

  • Software, Cloud, Services, and Support Partner Selections

  • Scoping & Budgeting Refinement Coordination

Program Governance

Truly where the rubber hits the road – the criticality of effective program governance is often overlooked, resulting in lost opportunity and in the worst cases, failed implementations that can have a material impact on your bottom line. 

Leveraging assistance in program governance allows a second set of eyes at critical junctures to ensure milestones have an appropriate level of quality assurance built in, that process changes are scalable and have proper training plans associated with them, and that critical controls and visibility are built into the operation to ensure daily operational objectives and longer term financial metrics are met. 

  • Program Leadership Alignment & Coaching

  • Steering Committee Progress & Risk Assessment

  • Industry Focused Supply Chain & Strategy Briefings

ISV Advisory

Similarly, experience across the various disciplines in Software IT vendors (Product Development, Services, Support, etc) coupled with visionary leadership and a understanding of competitive differentiation within the software space allows robust opportunities for evaluating needed program / strategy updates as well as organizational pivots to better position vendors for market share and financial growth. We apply financial benchmarks and hands-on experience to evaluate vendor performance across the revenue and profitability to identify opportunity areas, and tactical remediation plans to right-size problem areas and establish performance monitoring to ensure continued improvement.

  • Market Position & Investment Trend Executive Workshops

  • Vendor Effectiveness & Opportunity Assessment

  • Performance Improvement Programs

Private Equity Advisory

Evaluating the health of a supply chain IT program, especially Third Party Logistics (3PL) and Specialty Distribution, will in many ways determine the ability of an organization to pivot support to emerging business strategy requirements. Not only are the current state capabilities relevant but an understanding of the culture and processes can indicate the speed with which new capabilities can be instantiated and market opportunities capitalized upon. We analyze IT architecture, supply chain strategy, personnel, and process to identify opportunities to leverage existing assets and provide insight to strategies to advance revenue opportunities and competitive differentiation through supply chain capabilities.

  • Market Position & Investment Trend Executive Workshops

  • Supply Chain Monetization Strategies

  • Supply Chain IT Assessments & Investment Recommendations