Supply Chain
Supply Chain boosted by a dynamic, demanding and competitive market
The unfavorable economic context of the last few years, coupled with the evolution of society’s consumption patterns (local offers, customized offers, bargain prices), constrains companies in transforming themselves with Supply Chain Consulting to be able to meet customers’ higher expectations in conjunction with facing increased competitive pressure.
In this context, manufacturers are being forced to rethink their supply chain’s structuring to gain agility, robustness and performance. This type of transformation must respond to market challenges and develop a strong competitive advantage throughout the value chain.
Whether the transformations are strategic or organizational, organizations must consider a digital component to modernize to gain information reliability and deliver strong operational performance.
We support you across the entire supply chain, from the product creation to the end-customer
Our expertise spans the entire supply chain value chain: from product sourcing to procurement, production to warehouse management and transport to the organization of customer outlets.
In all of your transformations, we strive to integrate change management and environmental factors to work together for sustainable transformations.
The combination of our business and technological know-how allows us to act on the following topics:
We support you to (re)define your paradigm:
- Redefinition of the target operating model: From end-to-end diagnostics to transformation planning and organization design, we will guide you toward your target operating model to meet market challenges and the defined customer promise.
- Logistics network optimization: When defining and optimizing its distribution network, it’s a question not only of positioning your offers and services in a given market, but also of assessing the impact of each potential strategy in terms of costs, financial assets (inventory), and service levels. Before becoming operational realities, we draw up a logistics master plan that integrates the project’s structure and prospective elements, then define the target organization and roadmap to get there.
- Supply chain security: Recent economic and health crises have revealed the fragility of supply chains and their sensitivity to risks (health, geopolitical, economic, social, technical, environmental). Faced with this situation, we have developed a proven methodology designed to cover you against these risks.
We support our clients in defining and implementing your planning strategy, enabling you to maximize service levels while optimizing costs.
We guide you in the design of target processes and organizations, and in the implementation of tools in the following areas:
- Product Offer Management
- Demand Planning
- Distribution Planning
- DDMRP
- Production Planning
- Procurement Planning and Supplier Collaboration
- S&OP / IBP
We have expertise in best practice across multiple sectors and in the various tools available on the market (APS, EPM toolbox, digital twins, control tower, etc.).
Our ambition is to bring you manufacturing and logistics expertise combined with know-how in Purchasing Excellence:
- Overhaul of the purchasing operational model: Creation of supply cells, redefinition of roles & responsibilities, deployment of regional processes or training, and implementation of solutions adapted to the customer’s strategy
- Industrial Supply Chain: We support our clients in your industrial supply chain tools transformation, enabling them to gain agility, responsiveness, and efficiency.
We will guide you through the definition of target processes, the selection and design of solutions to to the implementation and ramp-up of high-impact projects:- Industrial master plan: Make or Buy strategy, transformation or creation of industrial sites.
- Diagnosis and optimization of processes: e.g. flow management, line-side logistics, procurement, inventory management, production, order to delivery and lean approach.
- Support for design and implementation of MES (Manufacturing Execution System) tools to meet the challenges of efficiency, visibility, quality, traceability, etc.
- Support for the design and implementation of scheduling tools adapted to specific business requirements.
- Industrial logistics automation: recommendations and implementation of innovative solutions (AGVs, IoT, mobility, exoskeletons etc.) to improve productivity, capacity, speed, quality and working conditions.
To meet the logistics and distribution requirements, our expertise focus on three areas:
- Logistics: To identify areas for improvement and design an optimized operating model, we offer to diagnose warehouse processes and costs.
We help our clients to think about outsourcing and, if necessary, to select the 3PL best suited to your activity by conducting a call for tenders.
- Intralogistics: Mechanized warehousing is a big lever for reducing monotonous tasks, improving performance and achieving expected service levels. We’ll help you choose an innovative solution that’s tailored to your business and your constraints. We support you from start to finish:
Solution design, equipment manufacturer tender, simulations, contracting, implementation follow-up, acceptance & testing.
- Distribution/transport: Transport operations are a key factor in the performance of your supply chain. We can help you design and optimize your distribution networks, from Full Truck Load to Last Mile. We can also manage the transport tender process.
There can be no high-performance value chain without the support of an information system and, more broadly, of appropriate technological tools.
The challenge is to reduce the gap between needs and solutions by correctly understanding business imperatives and IS constraints, while taking advantage of the benefits of supply chain digitization.
Our dual skills in business and IS (WMS, OMS, TMS, APS, WCS, Control Tower, etc.) allows us to support our clients in:
- Definition of the Supply Chain IS master plan and its consistency with the overall IS master plan.
- IS scoping, needs analysis and solution selection assistance to contractualization with publishers x integrators.
- Secure implementation: Project management, acceptance, changeover, data recovery and migration, go-live, HyperCare-type support.
- Business x Tools x Organization x Culture impact analysis, definition and implementation of the necessary change management measures.
An Ecosystem at Your Disposal with Supply Chain Consulting
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Technological partners
While remaining independant, we have developed expertise in partner solutions.
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Academic partners
We maintain a close relationship with the best education facilities to share knowledge.
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Partners in reflection
To maintain our level of expertise and innovation, we share our thoughts with supply chain experts
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