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Supply Chain Integration

Open collaboration and tighter integration across the entire supply chain have become increasingly important. If managed well, these collaborative working partnerships can reduce costs, improve time to market, increase efficiency and enhance customer satisfaction.

Today the direct success of a company is intertwined with the performance and capabilities of the others within the extended value chain. A.T. Kearney helps companies meet this need for Supply Chain Integration by helping them build:

  • Collaborative actions that can enhance operational productivity
  • Alignment of supply chain partners’ goals, to create win-win relationships
  • Improved partner performance, which delivers integrated solutions rather than just products
  • The facilitation of a more creative environment in which innovation and new products emerge
  • Optimal coordination of global projects, balancing diverse country requirements and regulations, cultural and communication challenges, and logistic complexities
  • Flexibility for long-term commitments and changing market conditions, including new partners and technologies

Key to our Supply Chain Integration approach are:

  • Sales and Operations Planning, which balances supply and demand, and minimises the inherent variability within the system
  • Customer Integration, which tailors supply chains to maximise availability to customers, thus providing a key driver for top-line improvements
  • Complexity Management, which addresses complexity in areas of product portfolio, customer portfolio, locations and processes

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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