Diagnostic
Every single strategy roadmap highlights ``improve supply chain management capability`` initiative
Regularly checking and evolving the operating model is one of the proven practices for better executing the strategy and boosting your supply chain.
Framework; Operating Model Analysis (OMA) Scanning end-to-end your business across people, processes, assets, and technology, quantify data with descriptive statistics analysis, review how supply chain issues effect on working capital, pinpoint opportunities and finally recommend specific prioritized actions to improve capabilities of the supply chain in organizations. All in line with, company culture and objectives.
Tools: Business insights and observations, data analysis, diversified experience are synthesized to create tangible results.
Timeline: One to three months. The company size and complexity should be within the limits of one practitioner perform.
Value Proposition: A hot-air balloon view of your business with an in-depth, data-informed, cross-functional supply chain management perspective. To capture untouched opportunities end-to-end, to understand supply chain maturity level of your company, identify key initiatives and develop an action plan to improve service levels and operational profit. ask questions or push things that employees cannot
Deliverable: SCDR-RM Supply Chain Diagnostic Report and Road Map would extend beyond your expectations with a very reasonable budget.
Functional and cross functional leverage
Increasing the capability of supply chain functions to perform business process and systems connectively. Providing support on S&OP and S&OE implementation or maximize maturity.
Framework: Supply chain is a combination of broad and deep fields. Plan-Buy-Make-Move-Store-Sell. Each of the mega-processes and sub-processes conducted by functions with a high impact on each other and overall supply chain performance. This service focuses on seeding to departments set of related knowledge (SME), tools and skills. As they gain in maturity, contribution to the company would increase eventually.
Tools: Using well-known define, measure, analyze, improve, control methodology with a personal touch from a source who has “been there or done that” before.
Timeline: Three to six months per function, average four months for S&OP foundation implementation or maturity improvement.
Value Proposition: Faster reaction to shifting customer needs and demands with higher operational efficiency. Replacing a deeply ingrained "silo" mindset with a connected business process and system that comprises the "whole job". Align Strategy-Perspective-Initiatives with Objectives and Key Results (OKR) across functions.
Deliverable: Monthly demand and supply balancing pre-defined meeting cadence with top and senior level management supported with track and trace methodologies how they perform with a focus on company strategy rather than their own functional excellence. Other outputs vary depending on the scope is agreed.
Data Integrity & Quality
Self-Service SCM Platforms
S&OP - S&OE - BA Trio
Overseeing real-time your business perception and execution performance.
Framework: A proven demand and supply chain analytics canvas. Convenient for widespread use, serve to purpose, quick but robust and sustainable BI platform design.
Starts with typically a two or three weeks intensive diagnostic engagement. High level envision of end to end operating model and data to address; client's collaborative decision making maturity level, structured, semi-structured or unstructured data sets to capture which would serve to purpose.
Second step is defining data scope in further by source (relational and/or non-relational data bases) and prepare POC (proof of content) and hand-shake with technical teams on conceptual design of horizontally integrated Self-Service reporting data cube.
Finally delivering self-service SCM data cube and S&OP - S&OE dashboard.
Tools: This is a business owner, technical partner, business consulting joint project. Using one of analytics and business intelligence platforms such as Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, pulling data from the different range of sources and create integrated multi-dimensional dashboards.
Timeline: One to three months for an internal level of foundational visibility. Further granularity level of flexibility and alignment scope may vary and conclude in multi-phases.
Value Proposition: The project methodology provides fast-tangible results, builds trusts. Therefore a very good starting point to enhance self-service business intelligence capabilities. As the maturity improves (which happens fast) commercial, operation and supply chain execution teams would be happy to explore easy-to-use and non-technical self-service data cube without IT interpretation.
Thus would way better serve to integrated decision making capabilities and to improve business process agility.
Before implementing more complex and sophisticated systems with projects that require great effort and cost, designing and operating the self-service BA platform in a very short time with more affordable budgets is a very effective tool to support companies' data analytics competencies. With this type of projects, teams are able to more accurately describe the system needs that suit their business needs.
Deliverable: Replacing excel spread-sheets with real-time one source integrated data platform.
Capture ``diverse but relative`` data,
Utilize ``serve to purpose`` analytics,
Deliver ``more but relevant`` people
Built `` quick but reliable`` trust in data
Content and Design by Z. Serap Gencer - adapted from Business Model Canvas
Content and Design by Z. Serap Gencer
Transformation
Improve, optimize the current traditional supply chain and/or convert it to digital.
Framework: There are four pillars in transformation. Network Strategy and Risk Management, Tactic Level Supply Chain Practices, Supply Chain Operations Execution and Optimization.
An extensive transformation may require a consulting company approach rather than working with a solo practitioner. However, tactic, operational and optimization tangible elements such as; a connecting strategy to initiatives and results, a well-defined applicable process re-design, cost-to-serve, time-to-serve optimization, structuring/integrating data, switching people's mindset to horizontal thinking and to agile working are foundational for any kind of transition. So this is where I serve. A competent, flexible, risk-free source at a very reasonable budget.
Tools: Creating awareness of the need for change, implementing hands-on project management, methodologies with a broad projects experience and expertise. Real E Type source.
Timeline: One to six months. I do prefer to work for up to 6 months max for each project or phase and deliver a tangible result. Because I believe beyond it, you lose momentum, speed, and spirit.
Value Proposition: A connector who understands the business, needs, speaks process owners language and can translate it to system languages. Increasing capability to manage people, assets, product/service, supply, downstream demand in harmony.
Deliverable: A holistic, achievable blueprint for success. More productive, more profitable, and more connected to the customers with more engaged workers.
Talent Development
Helping companies creating teams with “Obsessive Attention to the Customer Experience” As Jeff Bezos says.
Framework: How you manage your workforce is a strategic tool for your success in the supply chain. Reducing the dependency for both employer and employee to each other is the key. Methodology, structuring the roles and processes to become less individual dependent and also smoothly oriented for newcomers to the company. Seeding and mentoring employees to execute with a company-free mindset; improve skills, keep learning, be adaptive, think horizontal, solve if there is a problem and create results.
Tools: Using any of the following methods where applicable. Mentoring (private and corporate), interim management, supply chain employment toolkit, on the job training and workshops.
Value Proposition: Reduce co-dependency, workers present in companies with no productivity, increase healthy worker engagement to enable themselves and their organizations to be successful.
Other Services
New generation way of work is all about being flexible, fast and responsive just like supply chain. To adapt, encouraging you for risk-free trials.
Global Trading Services: Arranging appointments and a joint visit to suppliers/clients/3PL companies. Acting as a foreign trade representative to set up operational standards on behalf of the company anywhere in the world. Establishing an international business structure for SMEs. Foreign trading performance tracking toolkit implementation.
Start-up Support: Tactical, operational execution support to small medium enterprises (SMEs) through the early stages of their company development.
2 x 360 Minute Workshops: A quick, very affordable envision and brainstorming sessions with a structured and result oriented agenda. Comes with a short general overview report on where is your pain in the process, people and data management.
System implementation: Support in the selection, buying, implementing and after user efficiency improvement stages of any SCM related software. SaaS, ERP, MRP, WMS, TMS, BI. Such as; What, why, how to buy. RFx, Proof of Content (POC), blueprint preparations. Overall implementation of project management. Power user training (business acumen development)
Supplier Relation Management: Contract content proof, 3rd party service provider (warehouse, transportation, customs brokerage) and other supplier’s service level, risk audits.