One key lesson in supply chain management is that fixing one bottleneck can sometimes create another. Our team partners with you to understand the full dynamics of your supply chain—identifying both quick wins and strategic opportunities that can help your organization leapfrog the competition.
We take the time to learn the nuances of your business and products, uncovering areas to capture value, boost productivity, and reduce waste. From these insights, we develop a practical, phased plan to address challenges while celebrating successes—maintaining momentum aligned with your organization’s size and readiness for change.
Planning
Supply Chain Planning systems are essential investments to ensure operational efficiency, resilience, and to serve as strategic assets that deliver superior customer service. From data collection and demand planning to order fulfillment, it’s crucial to build on strong fundamentals while aligning system selection with your broader vision and strategy. In today’s disruptive environment, effectively leveraging your planning systems supports profitability and viability through both growth and lean periods.
Our Approach
We conduct interviews with leadership and key stakeholders across demand planning, manufacturing, procurement, distribution, and finance to identify pain points and gain a comprehensive view of planning impacts throughout the business.
Through in-depth reviews with key users, we uncover bottlenecks and blind spots that hinder accurate planning and timely issue resolution. We document critical capabilities and evaluate business processes such as forecasting, inventory optimization, replenishment planning, supplier and customer collaboration, manufacturing and procurement planning, promotions, S&OP, and issue management.
Beyond client input, SCT provides an educational update on the latest trends and innovations—such as AI-enabled supply chain visibility, demand forecasting, inventory optimization, and advanced analytics—helping align our recommendations with the greatest potential value.
We review identified opportunities with operational stakeholders, balancing implementation complexity with expected organizational impact. By considering interdependencies, we develop a sequenced roadmap that prioritizes initiatives for maximum effect.
When required, SCT builds a defensible business case quantifying expected savings—whether through reduced stockouts, lower transportation costs, or improved customer satisfaction—to secure funding and leadership support. The output includes quick-win opportunities and a high-level roadmap for sustained planning process improvements.
Warehousing
When evaluating the health of your warehouse operations—or considering the need for a new Warehouse Management System (WMS)—it’s essential to start with core fundamentals while extending the analysis to align with long-term vision and strategy. A well-leveraged WMS is not just a tool for operational efficiency—it’s a strategic asset that supports profitability, adaptability, and resilience, even in challenging market conditions.
SCT brings clarity to capability assessments, identifying both gaps and opportunities for differentiation. We challenge the status quo and help reimagine how your warehouse can operate with a modern WMS that delivers measurable value and supports future growth.
Our Approach
We begin by interviewing leadership and key stakeholders across operations, inventory, customer service, and finance to understand pain points, priorities, and the broader organizational impact of warehousing challenges. These insights set the foundation for innovation and improvement.
SCT conducts in-depth process reviews with warehouse teams to uncover bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and missed opportunities. We document critical capabilities and evaluate key workflows—ranging from receiving and putaway to picking, packing, shipping, and inventory control—while assessing their impact on customer satisfaction and business performance.
In addition to listening to your team’s observations, we provide a structured point of view on the latest WMS and warehouse automation trends—from robotics and AI-enhanced workflows to next-gen inventory and labor management. Our insights help you identify innovations that offer the greatest potential value for your business.
We consolidate all identified opportunities and assess them based on implementation complexity and potential business impact. By evaluating interdependencies, we prioritize initiatives into a sequenced roadmap that builds momentum and delivers sustainable improvements.
When required, SCT develops a tailored business case outlining anticipated benefits—whether it’s improved labor productivity, increased throughput, optimized space utilization, or enhanced responsiveness to shifting order profiles. We convert strategic recommendations into defensible cost justifications to ensure your warehouse initiatives gain executive support and organizational commitment.
Transportation
When evaluating the effectiveness of your transportation operations—or the need for a Transportation Management System (TMS)—it’s important to start with core fundamentals while aligning system selection with long-term strategy. In today’s dynamic and often disruptive environment, a well-implemented TMS can serve as both an operational enabler and a strategic asset—driving profitability, efficiency, and resilience.
SCT helps organizations assess their current capabilities, identify performance gaps, and uncover opportunities for differentiation. We challenge conventional thinking to help reimagine how a modern TMS can enhance your transportation function and support broader supply chain objectives.
Our Approach
We begin with interviews across leadership and key stakeholders—from operations and customer service to inventory and finance—to capture current pain points, visibility gaps, and key challenges. These insights help shape a shared vision for improvement and innovation.
Through deep-dive process assessments, SCT identifies bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and blind spots within core transportation workflows, including load building, rating, carrier selection, tendering, tracking, freight audit, and contract compliance. We evaluate critical capabilities and document improvement opportunities that can have meaningful impact across the organization.
Beyond internal observations, SCT brings an informed point of view on the latest TMS best practices and innovations. From real-time transportation visibility and digital brokerages to dynamic pricing, AI-driven freight auditing, and mini-bid strategies, we help clients identify the most relevant opportunities for improvement and competitive advantage.
We compile and evaluate all identified opportunities, balancing their implementation complexity with their expected business impact. By understanding interdependencies across initiatives, we create a phased, prioritized roadmap to guide successful implementation and long-term value realization.
When required, SCT builds a defensible business case to secure executive alignment and funding. Whether it’s improved freight consolidation, smarter tendering, optimized routing, more accurate invoice auditing, or enhanced service levels, we translate your transportation improvement plan into tangible, quantifiable value.
