Selecting a new system can feel overwhelming—especially if it’s been years since your last process or if you’re new to it altogether. SCT has facilitated and led hundreds of RFP processes, guiding teams step-by-step to ensure projects align with strategic vision and deliver positive business outcomes.
Stakeholder Alignment & Program Charters
Interviews with key stakeholders are combined with SCT-led education on the current Warehouse Management technology landscape with a focus on your critical business needs and opportunities. Aligning on key objectives for the project through a high-level review, or a detailed Opportunity Assessment will allow SCT to build consensus and shared vision across the organization for WMS project objectives to ensure alignment during the requirements definition and vendor selection.
Integrated System Architecture & Analytics Design
As SCT lays out a broad view of the provider landscape, it is often necessary to shortlist those providers that are more likely to participate in the proposed architecture. This may include large WMS vendors, smaller niche providers, adjacent software providers, and warehouse automation technologies. Vendor identification and interviews allow our clients to hear the stories and prioritize activities in a way that will provide the needed insight to develop scope for the evaluation and program planning exercises. The output is a longer term vision to a holistic architecture that establishes a foundational alignment for roadmap development and vendor selection purposes.
Requirements Definition
Detailed process walk-throughs through each area of the business and user persona allows SCT to align current state capabilities to best practices, identifying the list of critical capabilities needed from a warehouse solution as well as additional capabilities and considerations. The output is a prioritized list of requirements to be used in an RFI/RFP, along with any near term improvements that can be achieved prior to a more formal project.
Critical Differentiators
SCT’s elevation of critical requirements and differentiators across functional requirements and provider approach can be leveraged in weighted scorecards as an effective tool to socialize priorities across different stakeholder entities within the organization and to ensure that priorities are aligned when selecting a vendor and solution.
