The 4SiGHT Supply Chain Strategy engagement is designed to align with the most critical demands of the business rather than the ‘means’ to enable the business. This approach is crucial in large and multi-division companies to ensure that all parts of the organization focus on achieving their principal business objectives rather than sub-optimizing individual business functions. 4SiGHT’s Supply Chain Strategy is a plan that outlines how a company will use technology to optimize its supply chain operations. It involves identifying the business goals and objectives the technology strategy aims to achieve, such as increasing efficiency, reducing costs, improving customer service, and enhancing supply chain visibility. 

The strategy then outlines the specific technology solutions to achieve these goals, such as transportation management systems, warehouse management systems, inventory management systems, and analytics tools. It also includes a plan for integrating these systems and the company’s existing technology infrastructure. Overall, a supply chain technology strategy is a comprehensive plan for leveraging technology to improve the performance and competitiveness of a company’s supply chain. 

4SiGHT has developed a highly structured approach for strategic studies that involve structured data gathering, interviews with key management and operating personnel, IT systems analysis, and comparative analysis with other related 4SiGHT clients/projects. We conduct an on-site visit to understand your company culture, operating characteristics, product portfolio, order profiles, mission-critical systems, and other deployed technologies to support the operation and service levels guaranteed to your ultimate customers. This necessitates leveraging resources with an extensive knowledge of retail and distribution operations, process improvement methodologies, understanding supply chain technology benefits, and the impact of/to potential organizational changes. 4SiGHT’s assessment methodology for strategic studies identifies improvement initiatives for possible future projects. Our approach focuses on providing data-driven conclusions that lead to measurable, tangible, and financially viable solutions and results. We focus the project scope on key areas you identify as potential improvement candidates.   

This engagement ordinarily occurs as a series of facilitated planning workshops with a cross-functional executive leadership team. After these workshops, the company has a well-conceived and documented supply chain strategy roadmap with specific business objectives, action plans, timelines, and responsibilities. 

• Define industry framework for customer marketplace 
• Establish value proposal/competitive positioning 
• Evaluate current internal supply chain processes 
• Create linkage to supply chain and business strategy