Supply chain excellence enables companies to achieve sustainable improvements by optimizing processes, adapting the production network and footprint, and making appropriate make-or-buy decisions. This blog post shows how companies can optimize their supply chain in the corporate network and how, with the help of best practices and a structured analysis of the current situation, sustainable transformation can be started promptly with initiatives that can be implemented quickly.

“Thanks to our proven methods, we are able to create a well-founded analysis of your supply chain in a short space of time and identify optimization potential using best practice approaches.”

Denise Pohlig, Managing Director at ifp consulting

In our understanding, technical supply chain management includes the network, processes, infrastructure and organization of companies. We also consider inbound and outbound processes from suppliers and to customers, intralogistics and make-or-buy decisions.

How do we help our customers to ensure an excellent supply chain?

Our Supply Chain Quick Check is an important first step in assessing the current status of the company’s supply chain. With the quick check, weak points in the entire network as well as in local logistics can be identified promptly and then eliminated with suitable measures.

Source, Make, Deliver: from inbound to internal processes to outbound. Using our structured quick check, we provide an independent assessment of the status quo of your supply chain at short notice based on standardized evaluation criteria.

After one to two weeks on site, our customers receive an assessment of the status quo compared to other companies, approaches for optimizing the supply chain and an initial estimate of the potential.

The quick check includes the consideration of:

  • Key figures and KPIs (key performance indicators): Evaluation and benchmarking of cost structures, throughput times, stock levels, etc.

  • Process efficiency: evaluation of current processes and identification and quantification of optimization potential

  • Employees and organization: organizational structure and qualification profiles of employees

  • Future-proofing: assessment of the degree of digitalization, digital transformation and sustainability of the supply chain

  • Risks in the supply chain: Identification of potential risks and vulnerabilities in the supply chain

We then usually work with our clients to develop a roadmap with a detailed roadmap for transforming the supply chain. We involve employees intensively through inspiring keynote speeches and joint workshops and develop lighthouse initiatives that are implemented internally in the short term to ensure a sustainable effect.

You can reach the next level with our Supply Chain Excellence Quick Check:

  • What? We support you with our quick check on supply chain performance

  • How? Systematic evaluation of supply chain performance using targeted evaluation criteria

  • Goal: Improving long-term performance and competitive advantages

Unforeseen events harbor high risk potential for your company’s supply chain. You can identify weak points by analyzing your supply chain performance.

Ensuring transparency, creating resilience

Supply chain resilience ensures the functionality of your supply chain even in the event of unpredictable fluctuations and disruptions in the global network. Recent years have shown that adaptability and robust supply chains represent a decisive competitive advantage for companies.

At ifp consulting, we therefore not only look at the cost structure as part of a supply chain analysis, but also take a holistic view of the network.

More information: Expert consulting for supply chain excellence | ifpconsulting

E2E assessment of the supply chain

The volatility of markets and external factors require increased adaptability to changes and proactive action. Manufacturing companies should therefore carry out a regular end-to-end assessment of their own supply chain in terms of efficiency, flexibility and delivery capability in order to identify bottlenecks and risks at an early stage and take countermeasures.

We at ifp consulting can help you with our standardized Supply Chain Quick-Check to support you. This can help you to create transparency regarding the current status of your company within a very short time. Risks, process efficiency, degree of digitalization, transparency and organization of your supply chain are evaluated based on facts and with meaningful key figures.

We then compare your company with competitors and develop an ideal target state, from which we then derive specific measures for the future. Together with you, we develop a detailed roadmap for the transformation of your supply chain. This will enable you to shape the transformation yourself in the future.

“Our approach is always individually tailored to the customer. For one reference customer, for example, we developed an approach after analysing the cost structure in order to adapt the value creation structure and significantly improve the competitiveness of the products with optimized production technologies. Our roadmap was then implemented step by step by the customer itself.” ~ Denise Pohlig, Managing Director at ifp consulting.

  • You can find more information on how the transformation to supply chain excellence can be achieved and successfully and permanently anchored in the company in our whitepaper for download.