Warehouse Management Systems implementations are fraught with risk. SCT brings subject matter experts capable of assuring designs accommodate business requirements while reflecting industry leading practices. With an average of 20 years of experience, our advisors assist in navigating the challenges of project management excellence, change management, and communications to assure our clients of the highest likelihood of success in their implementations.
Industry Best Practices
Our advisors have succeeded in guiding some of the most complex environments through global design contemplation efforts the balance operational efficiencies with throughput while protecting agile processes prepared to address the needs of channel growth, shifting demand, and the prospect of merger and acquisition impact to operations.
Throughout design and continuously as issues arise and parking lots are addressed our advisors provide invaluable insight into industry recognized best practices and opportunities to improve existing processes. Managing the balance of delivering the best solution and deferring potentially disruptive changes to the business delivers a high value outcome with opportunity to grow from a foundation of success.
Implementation Methodology
Following the critical elements of a best in class methodology assures solution readiness and business preparations to absorb the extended capabilities that implementations have to offer. Our advisors, through years of experience, ensure the rigorous exercises of data cleanliness, testing thoroughness, and robust training are executed in alignment with the appropriate milestones.
Change Management
Change management is perhaps the most critical element assuring the success of an implementation. Preparing the business for the impacts of process and technology changes, while championing the positive impacts it will have on the personnel and the business can go miles towards driving the correct outcomes. SCT works with client leadership to build awareness of pending change and communicate effectively across stakeholder groups while preparing them for a successful transition.
Program Leadership Alignment & Coaching
Ensuring stakeholders maintain a clear line of sight to both project success and program objectives is critical. Opportunity often lies beyond your typical cadence of status reporting and milestone presentations. With ongoing and frequent dialogue beyond the mechanics, our advisors will cultivate a dialogue with project stakeholders deliberating project risks related to people, process, and technology, adding rigor to change management and calibrating scoping decisions to balance results with objectives around schedule and costs.
Steering Committee Oversight & Support
Formal, objective reviews of program success prove useful to calibrating program investment. Our advisors, extracted from the day to day challenges of operations and project management, provide a useful rudder to steer your program to achieve its longer term vision, and serve as a reality check when responding to trends and anticipating potential disruptions.
