Supply Chain Network Design

A good supply chain network is more than the lowest landed costs. Resilience, Agility, Carbon emission, and Responsiveness are key drivers. Do you have a supply chain in place by design or has the supply chain evolved in response to disruptions? Is your supply chain network fit for the future?

Your supply chains constantly needs be tuned and regularly redesigned to meet changes in the environment in which you and your company operate. Think of geopolitical turmoil, labor market challenges, availability and pricing of materials and energy and tax climate changes to name a few. Other changes are closer to the business, like M&A / carve outs, product innovation, new competing products. There is a fain chance that your supply chain network set-up is no longer geared to meet the current needs and is no longer fit to support the anticipated growth. 

BCI helps you re-think your supply chain network. From your company strategy we derive alternative network design scenario’s. After careful assessment of the scenario’s with relevant criteria we jointly identify the best fit network for your future. The assessment includes: 

• Analysis of the business strategy, growth plans and investment plans
• External factors analyses and benchmark comparison
• Scenario development and detailed analysis, including:
  • Facility and transport; operational cost, investment, service levels, emission
  • Qualitative factors; business environment, labor market, supplier ecosystem, risks
• Ranking and impact analysis of the scenarios, development of business case and roadmap.
• Sensitivity of the new network to variations in price, demand level, mix will be tested.

The analysis outcomes will be reported in terms of network structure, role – capacity – number – location of facilities, own/outsource operator model. Including a stepwise roadmap and investment plan to implement the new network structure.

Our proven 5-step approach in supply chain network analysis

• Kick-off-phase - A start-up phase to install the project team, understand the current network and key drivers, develop hypotheses and compile a detailed project plan
• Understand and analyze phase - Collect data and map the current logistics network. This includes assessing whether and to what extent the current network can facilitate the ambitions for the future and the strategic plans
• Supply chain design phase - Includes benchmarking, center of gravity analyses and the development of supply chain scenarios
• Detail and validate phase - Agreed scenarios are modelled to assess the impact of different manufacturing and distribution footprints using existing and potential candidate locations from a financial, service, CO2 equivalents emission, and qualitative perspective
• Document and plan phase - Evaluate the scenarios and develop a clear recommendation and road map 

Enriching your data set

Our approach is fact-based, utilizing your data and - where that data set has omissions - enrich the data from our own transport and facility databases for candidate locations and new nodes/lanes.

BCI uses various advanced analytics tools such as Optilogic to optimize your supply chain network that is fit for purpose.

Report out for management and as reference for implementation

The deliverables included a final report with the recommended scenario, an implementation plan, investment plan, and a roadmap. The full report also included the details of the baseline, growth data, and scenario assessments. This can serve as reference for future work, and as basis for development of a detailed implementation plan by the client’s project team.