Achieving Strategic Focus to Improve Supply Chain Performance
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At a Glance
Current State
Provided company leadership with detailed understanding of current state supply chain operations and insight into key challenges, inefficiencies, and successes
Annual Savings
Identified an estimated $1.2 million in recurring annual savings that can be achieved through effective spend category management
Recommendations
Developed recommendations to address areas of improvement, achieve estimated savings, and transition supply chain into an integrated partner to the business units
Challenge
ScottMadden assisted a regulated generation, transmission, and distribution utility with an assessment of its supply chain organization against leading practices and industry benchmarks.
Process
- Conducted interviews, site visits, and focus group sessions to assess supply chain activities against leading practices
- Performed performance metric assessment against industry benchmarks
- Synthesized findings from leading practice and performance metric assessment to gain clear understanding of the current state
- Reviewed current state findings and key performance improvement opportunities with supply chain leadership and COO
- Developed recommendations with key steps to achieving improvement initiatives
- Presented recommendations to supply chain leadership, COO, and CEO
Result
- Provided company leadership with detailed understanding of current state supply chain operations and insight into key challenges, inefficiencies, and successes
- Identified an estimated $1.2 million in recurring annual savings that can be achieved through effective spend category management
- Developed recommendations to address areas of improvement, achieve estimated savings, and transition supply chain from a reactive order-taking organization into an integrated partner to the business units
- Established a comprehensive road map, including detailed implementation steps and key dependencies, to guide supply chain through successful implementation of recommendations
- Communicated key findings and recommendations to company leadership and gained approval for recommendation implementation
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