Implementing supply chain planning effectively requires a strategic approach and careful consideration of various factors. SCT utilizes certified program management professions experienced in agile methodologies to implement and drive value quickly. SCT’s advisors integrate with your project teams to help extend conversations related to project design and its successful delivery. Embedding ourselves into regular conversations with program stakeholders provides a third-party view of progress and a supportive yet challenging voice seeking to provide optimal impacts and value realized from of your Supply Chain Planning system, while minimizing the disruptions that might result in the process.
Industry Best Practices
SCT initiates projects by level setting stakeholders and team members on overall program strategies and crucial success factors for the implementation. Reviewing 360-degree perspectives of the effort across workstreams and critical inter-dependencies drives communication and collaboration and establishes a sense of team building to ensure shared objectives in terms of schedule and results that can be tracked to and remedied should challenges arise.
Throughout the design phase, our subject matter experts participate in design sessions across operations, functionality, and technology. Special considerations to best practice ensure that current state processes are not simply replaced, but where possible, new thought and improvements are infused into the future state design.
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
In addition to process design, SCT pays special attention to program methodologies across testing, training, and cutover planning. Best practices in implementation extends well beyond a good design and well implemented system, and SCT acts as a coach and collaborator to ensure valuable work products are delivered in accordance with best in class change management practices.
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.
