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Supply chain footprint
If you want to build a sustainable business capable of delivering the right goods and services at the right cost, you need to build the right supply chain network as the foundation.
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Lars Saur Feldstedt
Johannes Juel Skibsted
Kenneth V. Olsen
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Your supply chain is likely to be the biggest opportunity you have
We help you transform your supply chain to meet both current and future requirements.
In global organisations, you are likely to use your footprint to support growth and revenue by tailoring your services to your customers’ needs. And your supply chain footprint is one of the most important business areas to optimise if you want to unlock a significant EBIT potential.
We help you prepare for the future by building a faster, more agile and cheaper supply chain. This includes having a fine-tuned production apparatus producing high-quality goods with short lead times at the right cost and having the right distribution footprint that is able to service ever-demanding customers with short lead times.
Customer pains
From working with customers, we know that these pains usually work as drivers to start optimising your supply chain footprint.
1. Making your distribution footprint fit for e-commerce
In recent years, the growth of e-commerce has accelerated. As a result, many supply chains are struggling to support the rapid growth and rising costs efficiently.
Furthermore, customers are ever- more demanding in terms of short delivery time, high service requirements and high rate of return.
2. Reducing cost in your supply chain and aligning capacity with demand
Imbalance between supply chain capacity and demand often occurs as a result of market changes, company growth and political turmoil.
Adopting a strategic and holistic approach to production and distribution can help you identify new efficiencies and cost reduction opportunities.
3. Reducing risk from disruptions in your supply chain
Global supply chains are challenged due to increasing frequency of disruptions such as COVID-19, trade wars and Brexit.
Many companies are realising how exposed and vulnerable their supply chain configuration is. Knowing how to assess risks, what to prepare and how to respond can help you reduce supply chain risks significantly.
1. Making your distribution footprint fit for e-commerce
We move towards increasingly more online purchase. This reduces the demand for standard retail consumption, implying a shift towards entirely new types of distribution facilities.
Many companies experience a challenge in adjusting their current supply chain setup to the e-commerce requirements such as single pick and ship, next-day deliveries and seamless return.
We help you design and implement a distribution footprint that accommodates the new requirements. An improved distribution setup can decrease running costs, free up capital and increase delivery performance.
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2. Reducing cost in your supply chain and aligning capacity with demand
One of the biggest cost reduction levers your company may pull is establishing an efficient supply chain footprint.
As companies grow and markets shift, there is a tendency to have an imbalance between capacity – how much can be produced – and demand – how much is required by the market. If you adopt a strategic and holistic approach, and you design a supply chain which is in balance, you can realise a significant EBIT upside.
We help you drive manufacturing and distribution footprint projects in different contexts such as when organisations have to expand capacity, after M&As and during economic downturns.
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3. Reducing risk from disruptions in your supply chain
Natural disasters, political instability, trade wars and pandemics are all factors that pose a risk to the stability and performance of your global supply chain.
If you want to reduce the risk exposure and increase the flexibility and resilience of your supply chain, a properly designed manufacturing and distribution footprint is key.
We help you drive manufacturing and distribution footprint projects with the aim of balancing performance, cost efficiency, sustainability and resilience.
