Our success stories represent the breadth and depth of expertise we bring to our clients.

SUPPLY CHAIN SUCCESS STORY

Supply Chain & Customer Experience Technology Investment Strategy

SCT was engaged by Kaplan Early Learning to review end-to-end supply chain capabilities including inventory awareness throughout B2B and B2C customer experience lifecycles.

  • Facilitated a sequence of executive interviews, education sessions, and workshops to create alignment across stakeholders in Sales, Marketing, Finance, Supply Planning, Operations, and IT to build consensus on critical differentiators to be pursued.

  • Provided a time phased investment roadmap, inclusive of budgetary and resource estimates consisting of process improvements, network expansion, vendor selections, and solution implementations, along with short lists of preferred vendors and profiles of each.

VENDOR STRATEGY SUCCESS STORY

Software Solutions Strategy & Go To Market for Digital Brokerage

As a Digital Broker, Transfix sought to leverage their technology prowess and insights into the transportation ecosystem. They turned to SCT’s Matthew Butler to develop product roadmaps and GTM strategies.

  • Delivered Transportation Management System roadmaps and investment priorities to highlight product value and differentiation through feature functions and insights. 

  • Created GTM strategies extended solution offerings, LTL Brokerage, and Procurement Insights tools including organization, prospect segmentation, sales playbooks, demand generation. and sales development strategies.

3PL SUPPLY CHAIN TECH SUCCESS STORY

 

eCommerce Solution Architecture Roadmap for a Leading 3PL

A leading Third Party Logistics services provider engaged SCT to evaluate their current eCommerce solution architecture and provide an overview of options and a recommendation for a modernized solution stack for scale across industries and geographies.

  • Provided commentary on the vendor ecosystem for solution areas including digital commerce, order management, global inventory visibility, warehousing, and parcel solutions.

  • Recommended an integrated solution architecture and roadmap for the implementation of each components including estimated costs and integration architecture.

VENDOR STRATEGY SUCCESS STORY

Software Product & Go To Market Strategy Rapidly Expanding ISP

MacGregor Partners (now an Accenture Company), engaged SCT to extend their industry strategy for warehousing services and solutions including eBOL, Visibility Portals, Automation Adapters, & WMS Accelerators.

  • Facilitated a series of workshops on the competitive landscape and likely M&A strategies of end-to-end supply chain, visibility, and digital commerce vendors, as well as points of view on the robotic process automation and multi-enterprise network ecosystem.

  • Developed refined positioning and messaging content in support of the go-forward vision and strategy.

3PL SUPPLY CHAIN SUCCESS STORY

Grocery & Retail Best Practices

A leading Third Party Cold Storage Logistics services provider engaged SCT to compare and contrast their existing warehousing solution template for grocery / retail against best practices.

  • SCT provided a summary impact analysis of potential improvement opportunities across people, process, and technology to modernize and optimize the current state grocery solution.

  • SCT developed a holistic approach to extending this footprint into a global template across industries and channels, as well as geographies, with technological commentary on the benefits of SaaS vs regularly upgraded on premise approaches.

VENDOR STRATEGY SUCCESS STORY

Software Product & Go To Market Strategy for North American Expansion

Cin7, a cloud-based retail management solution with e-commerce, inventory management, point of sale (POS) and reporting features, engaged SCT to navigate the mid-size retailer software market and competitive landscape.

  • Delivered a Capability Maturity Framework for core product capabilities including digital commerce, marketing automation, pricing & promotions, supply and demand planning, enterprise inventory, and order management, as well as adjacencies in supply chain execution and eCommerce fulfillment.

  • Delivered a three-horizon investment roadmap for product improvements, GTM enhancements, and alliance opportunities, as well as support for refined positioning and messaging in support of the go-forward vision and strategy.

DISTRIBUTION TECH SUCCESS STORY

Fulfillment Program RFP, Vendor Selection, and Scoping

Kaplan Early Learning engaged SCT Advisory to facilitate the Vendor selection process for a state of the art fulfillment platform including WMS, cartonization, parcel, conveyance integration, voice picking, and slotting.

  • Orchestrated vendor preparations and participated in interactions between vendor and key stakeholders including discovery, points of view, demonstrations, services workshops, and proposal reviews.

  • Delivered budgetary guidance, vendor risk/benefit assessments, and internal resource requirements and risk assessment for the program.

RETAIL IT STRATEGY SUCCESS STORY

Specialty Retail & Distribution Solution Architecture Assessment

SCT was engaged by The RealReal to assess options to speed functional expansion and scale for a home-grown solution architecture as the business expanded into new markets and offerings.

  • Delivered process and functional improvement recommendations and impact assessments across Merchandising, Forecasting and Replenishment, Digital Commerce, Warehousing, Transportation, and Store Operations.

  • Delivered assessment of technology stack including build vs buy options and preferred vendors across the solution landscape, culminating in a recommended investment roadmap to migrate to a best in class architecture.