Strategically Phase in Technology to Bolster Supply Chain Management
Starting from predicting demand, supply chain is your company’s lifeline. You can easily lose customers and miss your growth targets if only one link in the chain fails.
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Implementing supply chain management solutions without a strategy leads to:
- Massive budget and time overruns.
- Marginal benefits realization.
- Poor adoption and high operational costs.
Planning your supply chain management solutions implementation upfront leads to:
- Traceability of decision making.
- Ability to effectively forecast resource requirements.
- High adoption rates and lower maintenance costs.
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Onsite Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn’t enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our Project Workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a road map in place to complete your project successfully.
Book NowModule 1: Workshop Preparation
The Purpose
Facilitator works with team to verify organizational readiness for SCMS strategy project and form the core workshop team.
Key Benefits Achieved
Level-set on organizational readiness and project alignment
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| 1.1 | Review SCMS approach. |
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| 1.2 | Finalize agenda. |
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| 1.3 | Review supporting documentation and questionnaires. |
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| 1.4 | Introduce project charter. |
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Module 2: Define SCM and Project Structure
The Purpose
Clarify what constitutes supply chain management in the context of the organization and define what’s driving the initiative and its scope.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Organizational alignment behind project goals and expectation
- Shared understanding of pain points and objectively evaluated SCMS project drivers
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| 2.1 | Introduce SCMS. |
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| 2.2 | Evaluate business needs and priorities. |
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| 2.3 | Discuss challenges and pain points. |
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| 2.4 | Discover benefits and opportunities. |
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| 2.5 | Complete the SCMS business model. |
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| 2.6 | Identify manual processes and redundancies, and workarounds. |
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Module 3: Gather High-Level Requirements
The Purpose
Gather high-level functional and other requirements for the potential SCM solution.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Identified key stakeholders
- Clearly scoped SCMS capabilities
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| 3.1 | Identify SCMS stakeholders by key functional area. |
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| 3.2 | Document high-level requirements in SCM operating model. |
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| 3.3 | Assess gaps and opportunities for alignment to organizational goals and SCM strategy. |
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Module 4: Design Future State
The Purpose
Agree on key priorities and map out paths to achieving desired future state in prioritized SCM capability areas.
Key Benefits Achieved
Agreement on key process capabilities with assigned ownership
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| 4.1 | Continue documenting requirements in SCM operating model. |
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| 4.2 | Visualize ideal future state. |
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| 4.3 | Identify critical success factors. |
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| 4.4 | Explore SCMS solution alternatives. |
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Module 5: Develop Roadmap
The Purpose
Develop high-level action plan toward the future state.
Key Benefits Achieved
Actionable initiatives roadmap to proceed with future phases of the SCMS project
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 5.1 | Brainstorm initiatives. |
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| 5.2 | Prioritize initiatives and rollout schedule. |
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| 5.3 | Assign ownership for tasks and create deadlines. |
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| 5.4 | Identify stage gates and milestones. |
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| 5.5 | Identify risks and contingencies. |
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