Marketing, manufacturing excellence and innovation have traditionally been considered the cornerstones of the economic success of a business. The end-to-end supply chain operations have rarely been regarded as significant customer value drivers.
But our experience has shown that a large proportion of our clients - ranging from regional operators to multi-nationals - had been consistently suffering from complex and under-performing supply chain footprints. These inefficiencies were primarily driven by hereditary manufacturing locations, as well as supply chain networks designed for expansion strategies or misaligned customer service offerings.
Incremental costs, driven by network complexities, are often hidden in regional cross-subsidies or single-line items within management reporting. This situation is exacerbated by the perceived high risk of business disruption, long implementation timelines, and the overall difficulties of unlocking cost savings.
But the current economic climate provides great opportunities for introspection across the entire cost base, in which these network optimisation opportunities play an increasingly significant role.
Network optimisation is one of the core competencies of A.T. Kearney, and we have delivered significant cost savings and service enhancements to our clients through a range of rationalisation initiatives. These include:
- Reorganisation of Supply Chain / Logistics operations, including optimisation of multi-tier warehousing networks and transportation lanes
- Manufacturing capacity optimisation across pan-regional and multi-product networks
- Optimisation of manufacturing capacity
- Operational and network performance benchmarking studies, and gap analyses driven by Stages of Excellence
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