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.
SCT brings depth of expertise specific to a domain as well as across supply chain planning, transportation, and warehousing with a focus on uncovering inefficiencies within silos and opportunities to address value leakage across them.
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.
Market dynamics and shifts in consumer behaviors are driving changes in supply chain network footprints and distribution approaches and driving tighter collaboration with business partners. Our advisors will facilitate visioning sessions and drive conversations considering your supply chain strategies, risk, and opportunities. Focused conversations on existing and needed competencies, discussions on insourcing and outsourcing will help guide well-aligned organizational strategy and investment plans. 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.
Portfolio reviews of supply chain technology capabilities will be benchmarked against industry norms and evaluated for value and relevance to supply chain strategy. Insights into risks and opportunity are compared to existing investment plans for a targeted point of view on maturity & strategic differentiation.
Reviews of supply chain performance beyond KPIs, our assessments focus on the fundamentals of business processes across select solutions categories from merchandising to supply chain planning and execution. Feedback will focus on precise recommendations for operational improvements, as well as longer term investment opportunities to transform your supply chain planning capabilities. 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.
