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Physical Supply Chain

Companies are increasingly looking to optimise the physical footprint of their operations, in order to drive customer service excellence and extract value. A.T. Kearney has deep expertise in this area and helps clients to drive improvements through three key principles:

Working capital management is increasingly important in these cash-strapped times. Our optimisation approach looks at all aspects of the working capital – inventory, accounts receivable and accounts payable.

Inside Four Walls drives operational improvements in the factories, warehouses and other operating sites to improve productivity and extract tangible benefits. This is undertaken through a proven and robust approach which identifies and carries the necessary initiatives straight into implementation.

Network optimisation supports clients in redesigning their production and distribution networks, reducing overall operating costs while maximising service levels. The range of tools used includes in-house properties as well as third-party packages.

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Optimising operations to deliver the customer value proposition at the lowest possible cost Eliminating waste and streamlining manufacturing processes to deliver only what customer values Applying and tailoring the best of lean methodologies and tools to the service sector Focusing efforts on tackling strategic issues rather than incremental process improvements firms can substantial financial and strategic gains Supply Chain Operating Model at how businesses need to structure themselves to win in an increasingly Global environment Open collaboration and tighter Integration across the entire supply chain can reduce costs, improve time to market, increase efficiency and enhance customer satisfaction Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) aims at balancing supply and demand in order to minimise inherent variability within the system and financial impact Complexity Management deals with managing complexity in areas of product portfolio, customer portfolio, locations / sites and processes Customer Integration helps tailor Supply Chains to maximise availability to customers and therefore be a major lever for top line improvements Strategic Sourcing enables an organisation to match its supply base performance with its business requirements financial discipline A.T. Kearney’s Assessment of Excellence in Procurement enables procurement organisations to drive their performance to world class levels Advanced procurement category solutions to enable clients to achieve economic benefits whilst enhancing overall supply base performance The world-leading tool to determine the appropriate strategy for every procurement category by addressing supply and demand conditions Physical Supply Chain projects are aimed at most effective alignment of the operational footprint with current and future business imperatives Reducing the capital requirements by focusing on stock management and financial discipline Optimising the end-to-end network using a combination own or third party tools as appropriate Driving excellence within a site operations through a mix of Lean and other performance enhancement tools