Supply Chain Design & Optimization

Whatever the characteristics of your industry, effective supply chain design and optimization of your supply chain is crucial in maintaining an efficient, profitable business, and for gaining competitive advantage.

Companies, which optimize their supply chains, improve their perfect order rating by an average of 17%, at the same time as reducing supply chain costs by up to 50%. In today’s economy, that’s an advantage worth taking.

Benchmarking your performance against best-in-class, Oliver Wight Supply Chain Design and Optimization allows you to evaluate the existing design and capability of your supply chain and, using performance measures aligned with your business strategy, to drive sustainable ongoing improvement.

We will help you to identify where value is being created and destroyed, prioritise opportunities; and where the supply chain is broken, we can help you fix it. The Oliver Wight Supply Chain Design and Optimization programme provides a logical sequence of steps for you to take towards a fully optimized supply chain, with measurable milestones along the way, so you can celebrate your successes.

Crucially, you will be able to establish the behaviours, roles and responsibilities required for Supply Chain Optimization, including engagement at the executive level, and however complex your supply chain, we will work with you to develop collaborative and profitable relationships throughout the extended supply chain. As well as focusing on your direct customer and first two tiers of supplier, you will be able to take account of both the consumer and any ‘heavy hitters’ in your supply chain, however far downstream they are.

Oliver Wight Supply Chain Design and Optimization combines blue-sky thinking with the realities of your existing supply chain footprint and infrastructure; it’s a practical, proven approach, which brings substantial performance benefits.