Supply Chain, Logistics and Distribution Strategy Alignment and Development

The focus of this work involves aligning a company's supply chain strategy to its business strategy. In situations of high growth, companies need a flexible supply chain to ensure that their growth plans can be absorbed at an incremental cost. In more certain demand situations companies should aim to ensure that their supply chain operates to optimum levels, with balance between service and cost.

This work often features:

Alignment of customers and suppliers to internal company operations
Alignment of marketing and sales plans to supply chain strategy
Alignment of capital expenditure to supply chain operations
Alignment of HR strategy to supply chain operations
Alignment of supply chain strategy to meet investment aims
Alignment of supply chain strategy to meet growth targets
Optimisation of supply chain to meet wider business goals

Supply Chain Strategy Development

As part of our work, we often assist companies in developing and documenting a Supply Chain, Logistics or Distribution Strategy.

This normally takes place as a series of facilitated planning workshops, with a cross functional team involved. At the completion of the workshops, the company has a documented strategy, with objectives, actions plans, timelines and responsibilities.

Whilst the workshops are tailored to the specific needs of the company, in simple terms, they tend to go through the following stages, if using an issues based approach: