Supply Chain Management Consulting Services

For delivering customer value, optimal supply chain performance, and sustainable advantage

Oliver Wight Supply Chain Management Consulting Services

As part of our Supply Chain Management consultancy, we provide comprehensive services tailored to diagnose, improve, and innovate your supply chain processes. 

Here's how supply chain consultants can assist your organization in achieving operational excellence and competitive advantage in the marketplace:

  • A diagnostic assessment of the effectiveness of your current Supply Chain Management process, including identifying performance issues

  • Benchmarking your supply chain performance using your own data to quantify your current position and compare with best-in-class

  • Risk management in the supply chain ensures robustness and resilience, preparing your organization to handle unforeseen disruptions effectively. By identifying potential risks early and planning for them, we help you maintain continuity under various scenarios, protecting your assets and ensuring service reliability.

  • Change management: planning, monitoring and supporting the implementation of change and its impact on your people

  • Transfer of our knowledge to your people so they can create and manage an effective supply chain consulting process

  • Coaching your supply chain process users as you introduce new ways of working

  • Facilitate the design of a Supply Chain Management process to best fit your organization and its needs

  • Scoping of an action plan to address issues and take advantage of opportunities identified, including resourcing, timelines and performance improvement expectations

  • Assessment of your Supply Chain Management process and validation that it has achieved Class A level of effectiveness – firmly embedded as the ‘way you do things’ and delivering the benefits you wanted

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Supply Chain Management Maturity Self-Assessment Tool

Before embarking on any performance improvement program, it is essential to identify your organization's true level of maturity. The Oliver Wight Maturity Model characterizes an organization as being in one of four key phases of maturity: 

  1. Co-ordination

  2. Business Process Control

  3. Automation

  4. Integration 

Assess your business maturity in Supply Chain Management using our free online self-assessment tool.

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How you can benefit from Supply Chain Management

  • Align your supply chain design and capability, using performance measures as part of your business strategy

  • Make supply chain segmentation decisions that effectively support your value proposition

  • Identify vulnerabilities and opportunities in your supply chain plans and use scenarios to create alternative plans to mitigate or exploit

  • Develop collaborative and profitable relationships throughout your extended supply chain

  • Ensure that your supply chain strategy supports all your marketing and sales strategies

  • Increase your agility to reconfigure the supply chain for improved competitive advantage

  • Reduced cost-to-serve

  • Increased focus on delivering customer value

  • Improved order performance

  • Understand where value is being created and destroyed

  • Optimize inventory and asset investment

You should consider Supply Chain Management for your organization if:

  • You have excessive inventory

  • You are experiencing ongoing service issues

  • You are not able to effectively respond to changing customer needs

  • You have high costs

  • You are struggling to produce to plan or seem to be constantly changing plans

  • You are under-utilising planning software

  • You are dealing with poor supplier performance

  • You have confrontational relationships with supply chain partners

How we can help

  • A diagnostic assessment of the effectiveness of your current Supply Chain Management process, including identifying performance issues

  • Benchmarking your supply chain performance using your own data to quantify your current position and compare with best-in-class

  • Change management – planning, monitoring and supporting the implementation of change and its impact on your people

  • Transfer of our knowledge to your people so they can create and manage an effective Supply Chain Management process

  • Coaching your Supply Chain Management process users as you introduce new ways of working

  • Facilitate the design of a Supply Chain Management process to best fit your organisation and its needs

  • Scoping of an action plan to address issues and take advantage of opportunities identified, including resourcing, timelines and performance improvement expectations

  • Assessment of your Supply Chain Management process and validation that it has achieved Class A level of effectiveness – firmly embedded as the ‘way you do things’ and delivering the benefits you wanted

Integrated Business Planning (IBP) And The Supply Chain

Integrated Business Planning (IBP) represents a holistic approach in Supply Chain Management that aligns strategic planning, finance, and operations to foster comprehensive decision-making and resource allocation. This advanced planning methodology extends beyond traditional supply chain processes to incorporate and harmonize multiple facets of organizational planning and execution.

IBP In Supply Chain
IBP in Supply Chain Management enables businesses to achieve better alignment and synchronization across all departments. This strategic framework ensures that all parts of the organization are moving towards the same objectives, with transparency and cohesion. By implementing IBP, companies can anticipate market changes more effectively and adjust their strategies in a co-ordinated manner.

What Is Supply Chain Management?

Supply chain management is the handling of the flow of goods and services between businesses and locations, including the movement and storage of raw materials, inventory, and finished goods, as well as end-to-end order fulfilment from the point of origin to the consumer.

Key aspects of Supply Chain Management:

Supply chain planning
The first step in streamlining operations involves strategic supply chain planning. This process ensures the smooth flow and storage of goods, services, and information from point of origin to point of consumption. As part of our Supply Chain Management consulting, we support businesses in developing robust planning strategies that not only anticipate demand and supply variability but also align with your business goals, ensuring a resilient and responsive supply chain.

Supply chain optimization
To thrive in a competitive landscape, continuous improvement through supply chain optimization is essential. Our supply chain consultancy specializes in refining these networks to enhance efficiency and effectiveness. By leveraging advanced analytics and innovative processes, we help you minimize costs and maximize customer satisfaction.

Supply chain transformation
Adapting to the digital age requires a fundamental supply chain transformation - reshaping traditional models into dynamic systems that are robust, scalable, and aligned with evolving technological advancements. We can support your business in implementing cutting-edge technologies and methodologies that revolutionize your supply chain infrastructure. This transformation fosters enhanced connectivity, better decision-making capabilities, and more efficient processes across your entire supply chain.

Supply chain innovation
Innovation is the driving force behind staying ahead in the market. As a Supply Chain Management consultancy we help businesses foster supply chain innovation by introducing new processes, technologies, and ideas that can deliver significant performance improvements. 

To cope with the constant increase in customer requirements, the implementation of an efficient and agile supply chain is a real competitive advantage for companies. Organizations that optimize their supply chains improve their perfect order rating by an average of 17%, at the same time reducing supply chain costs by up to 50%. In today’s economy, that’s an advantage worth taking.

Our approach to Supply Chain Management combines 'blue-sky thinking' - creative brainstorming without limits - with the realities of your existing supply chain footprint and infrastructure; it’s a practical, proven approach, which brings substantial performance benefits.

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Latest white papers & case studies

Deploying Strategy with Integrated Business Planning – The Supply Review

The Supply Review is the third step in the monthly Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process. It is where supply chain articulates its response in a forward-looking, time-phased plan within the context of well-defined tactics and strategies.

Supply Review – delivering value

In this white paper, we examine the role of the Supply Review in Integrated Business Planning and how to use it to add real value to your business.

Conception et Optimisation de la Supply Chain – Bâtir des relations entre les différents acteurs de la supply chain

Dans le contexte mondial actuel d’incertitude économique et d’accroissement continu de la concurrence, le client reste le roi. Bien que l’argent se fasse parfois rare, les clients demandent toujours un meilleur service, plus de valeur et des prix plus com

Avoid Being a ‘One Dimensional’ Business

Lloyd Snowden shares the importance of multiple concepts and explains why businesses must avoid being 'One Dimensional'.

Reduce, reuse, recycle – building a sustainable supply chain

Until a few years ago, if you’d asked any senior leader or executive the most important contributing factor to the ‘sustainability’ of their business they would most likely have answered that it was rate of growth and financial profitability.

Inventory Is Not a Problem; It is a Symptom An Executive Overview

The president of a client company asked the all too common question: “We have an inventory problem! We always seem to have too much, too little, or the wrong mix. What do we need to do differently?”

The role of Supply Chain in the 21st century

In today’s fast-paced world, businesses are battling to win the short-lived affections of an increasingly fickle customer base, as consumer appetite for newer, better, and brighter offerings, cheaper and more quickly never seems to be satisfied.

Supply Chain Design & Optimization - Building Supply Chain Relationships

Keeping your own business under control and simply relying on your customers and suppliers to do the same in today's business environment, is no longer sufficient.

Managing the Private Label Supply Chain

Today, most manufacturers are either already engaged in supplying private-label products, or wrestling with the decision as to whether they should introduce a private-label strategy.

Laying the Foundation - Six Steps to 95 Percent Inventory Record Accuracy

The world-class standard for inventory record accuracy today stands at 99.5 percent - as a minimum. The harsh reality is that most companies still are still struggling with inaccurate inventory records.

Kanban and Enterprise Resource Planning - The True Understanding of Lean

This white paper debunks the myths that Kanban and Enterprise Resource Planning are mutually exclusive. The authors explain how to use both together to create a demand-driven system that is responsive to demand volatility and uncertainty.

Gearing up for growth - Speed, agility and cost-efficiency; the future of the automotive supply chain

Fuelled by PPI compensation windfalls, attractive finance deals and shorter buying cycles (due to perceived savings from the efficiency of new cars), the automotive market, at last, appears to be on the road to recovery following six years of decline.

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Latest videos and webinars

Oliver Wight Conference Highlights

Highlights from Oliver Wight's third annual conference in 2016.

Oliver Wight Event For Healthcare Leaders

Highlights from Oliver Wight's 2018 event for healthcare leaders

Brexit: What next for British companies?

With the future still full of uncertainty how can British companies plan ahead?

Brexit Conference Highlights 2018

Highlights from Oliver Wight's 2018 conference about the impact of Brexit on businesses and their supply chains.

Creating Organisations of the Future, Today

Highlights from our unique workshop which took place in November 2019, focusing on the future of Integrated Business Planning, known as Enterprise Business Planning.