Supply chain analytics & Center of Excellence (CoE)

Those companies who have implemented a Supply Chain Center of Excellence have invested heavily in strong advanced analytical capabilities and benefit from unlocking the data to allow better and faster decision making.

To manage a complex and turbulent business environment requires having an instant holistic End-to-End view. It translates in the need for a network with anticipating lead times, optimized and flexible structures, process driven operations and better decision making capability. The recent geopolitical events, the pandemic and volatility in changing import duties have increased the need for multinational companies with global supply chains to understand completely their supply chain set up and capabilities as well as the need for fast decision making capability. This is “the journey towards a digital twin of your supply chain” Companies need to make a shift from a traditional transactional operating model into a more resilient End-to-End play and make changes in your organization, your process, your (analytics) tooling and your people. A first step is usually establishing a Center of Excellence with supply chain analytics and access to your company’s data, a so-called “data lake”. The Center of Excellence then typically can support you with visibility (End-to-End), scenario analyses and short term fact based decision making.

BCI can support the set-up of your Center of Excellence (COE) development in various ways:

CoE & SC Analytics Strategy

• Providing external views on what other companies are doing to spar with the COE, GAP assessment compared to the Client and initiating potential ideas/ project where the COE can add value to the business
• Scenario idea brainstorming and prioritization
• Developing the COE agenda for the next few months/years ahead
• Part of the steering committee/part of sponsorship team of COE
• Providing strategic guidance on Role and Capability of COE

Design of the COE set up

• Processes | Network Design and Process Design
• Organization | Governance
• People | Operating model & RACI
• Systems | Data & Tools
• Identification and conducting pilots to show the added value
• Training to COE members of the client

PMO and Implementations

• Project Management Office
• Business liaison to bridge gap between analytical folks and the business
• Coaching & sparring of the COE team
• Change management
• Implementation support

Training and Workshops

• Define skills & capabilities needed (existing / new hire)
• On-site training (Process, Systems, Data).

Typical supply chain COE elements can be segmented in specific supply chain analytics services, often drilled down in various individual supply chain elements:

A. Network design

B. Transport analyses

C. Risk assessments

D. Cost to Serve optimization

E. Optimization of inventory deployment

We will customize and define specific Objectives, Scope and Approaches for each specific analytical service. And for each analytical service we will align with you on the set of Deliverables on beforehand.