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Supply Chain Strategy

  • Assess Current Baseline
  • Benchmark to Best Practices
  • Develop Strategy Roadmap

 

Charting a Supply Chain Strategy Roadmap

The proper alignment of supply chain and business strategies is essential to ensuring high levels of business performance. The most successful supply chain strategies define the connection and combination of activities and functions throughout the value chain. In this way, they can fulfill the business value proposal to customers in a marketplace.

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 

 

Supply Chain Strategy Services

Technology Consulting
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Successfully evaluating what supply chain technology is the best fit for your business can be a challenge that requires the right people and skills. Dedicated staff members on your operations and IT teams are crucial to meeting your supply chain technology project goals. However, many businesses lack the resources with the time or skill sets needed to execute an effective supply chain technology project and look to augment or outsource these roles.

4SiGHT offers consulting services for implementing supply chain technology, including automation, robotics, material handling equipment, and supply chain software. Our services span the complete project lifecycle from requirements definition through launch and go-live support. If you’re preparing to evaluate how your company can benefit from some of today’s leading supply chain technology but don’t have qualified internal resources available to support the initiative, 4SiGHT can help.

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Transportation Consulting
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Optimizing your transportation operations has never been more challenging or crucial. Constantly meeting changing customer demands and market dynamics while minimizing costs and maintaining flexibility requires a comprehensive and well-conceived approach.

4SiGHT experts bring decades of experience assessing transportation operations, recommending targeted improvement opportunities, and successfully deploying TMS and other solutions. Whether you're a multi-modal global shipper or a regional company with a small, dedicated fleet, 4SiGHT brings the skills, experience, and best-practice knowledge essential to optimizing transportation.

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Warehouse Consulting
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Even with today's extended supply chains, omnichannel fulfillment, and 3rd-party logistics partnerships, your distribution operation continues to act as the nerve center for meeting customer demands. Optimizing your DC is more complicated than ever, given customer expectations for fast turnaround times and 100 percent fulfillment rates. The good news is that having the right tools, technology, and processes at your disposal will help you streamline distribution and improve performance.

4SiGHT can help optimize your distribution strategies and processes and align them with your Manhattan Associates solutions to elevate your DC to peak performance as you balance your fulfillment constraints and opportunities. We can leverage our years of experience in distribution/fulfillment operations to step in at any point of your Manhattan Associates implementation to lead your optimization initiatives or augment your team.

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