Supply Chain software selections are critical milestones, representing large investment decisions and bringing substantial risk to the organization to align processes to software capabilities and manage change within the organization and with suppliers and customers.
SCT Advisory provides RFI and RFP support for Supply Chain Planning System Selections that help our clients establish key requirements and business priorities, driving consensus and mindshare in program objectives and resource requirements while navigating the broad array of SCP providers in the marketplace considering cost, capability, and culture.
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 Operations Assessment will allow SCT to build consensus and shared vision across the organization for SCP 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. From the basics of assortments to demand planning, capacity planning, and sourcing (all buoyed by integrated business planning) to advanced data requirements and capabilities such as category management and shelf planning, control towers and demand shaping, as well as additional demand and supply signals, network and inventory optimization capabilities.
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 new supply chain planning solution. 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.
