Insights
Our belief in unlocking business benefit through supply chain management is shown in these Insights - our views on today’s key supply chain issues.
We apply the principle that advantage through the supply chain is achieved through functional excellence, combined with innovation in supply chain management processes and organisational design. While information technology is a critical enabler of these, it is not itself a driver of benefits.
The ‘Insights’ in this section examine different aspects of business, applying this principle and how it can be applied to benefit companies across industry sectors. Choose from our thoughts on:
- Supply chain academy (SCA)
- Agile inventory management
- A truly lean organisation
- Securing the benefits of Cost-to-Serve
- Green supply chain
- The 5 supply chain maxims
- What are the key points to LCPs Cost-to-Serve methodology?
- Supply Chain Management in the economic slow down
- Delivering the benefits of world-class supply chains in the chemical sector
- Creating high-performance purchasing teams
- The role of IT in strategy implementation projects.
If you’d like to know more about what any of the above insights covers, please scroll down to find the overview of the insight you’re interested in. The complete insight can be obtained on request.
Insight overviews
Supply Chain Academy - Julian Mosquera and Richard Renshaw explain how LCP has applied it's Supply Chain Academy (SCA) development philosophy to align the wider organisation with the corporate strategy, generating operating cost savings of over one million dollars in the process. PDF Download
Agile inventory management - Whenever business performance drops and cash flow becomes restricted, the rush to reduce working capital is as predictable as sunrise. The actions are equally predictable and reactionary … Agile inventory management
A truly lean organisation - A truly lean organisation needs to master supply chain complexity. With the resurgent focus of Lean and Six Sigman principles, Julian Mosquera, Director of LCP Consulting, explains how a broader approach to their application is the way for businesses to achieve the next level of cost and service improvement. A truly lean organisation
Securing the benefits of Cost-to-Serve - With the continued focus on driving profitability and cash generation, Paul Derbyshire and Julian Mosquera explore the best approach to Cost-to-Serve to avoid many of the common pitfalls and deliver the maximum benefit.
Green supply chain - Unlocking environmental supply chain value using Carbon-to-Serve®
The 5 supply chain maxims - As economic conditions get harder, there will be just one mantra for CEOs and their Boards... The supply chain maxims or down load PDF The supply chain maxims
What are key points to LCP's Cost-to-Serve methodology? - Julian Mosquera provides further insight into how LCP's Cost-to-Serve approach reveals cost and margin improvement opportunities Cost-to-Serve Methodology
Supply Chain Management in the economic slowdown - The pressure on businesses to protect margin and achieve meaningful cost reduction is never more apparent than during a period of economic downturn. Economic slowdown.
Delivering the benefits of world-class supply chains in the chemical sector - Supply chain costs in the chemical sector are around 43% of the corporate value-add - the highest across all major industries. Over-complex and inefficient supply chains incur too much cost, so that too many of the service offerings have poor margins and too many products are unprofitable. This insight examines how segmenting the service offering based on an understanding of cost can deliver different outcomes that benefit both the customer and the organisation.
Creating high-performance purchasing teams - In the present uncertain economic climate all businesses are seeking cost savings in their mission to increase profit. Cost benefits identified as part of purchasing improvement initiatives remain unrealised. This paper looks at an approach to delivering sustainable purchasing improvement that draws on supply chain best practice.
The role of IT in strategy implementation projects - For organisations, a key challenge is finding ways of managing the process of strategy implementation so that the rate of change is fast enough. The rate at which enabling information technologies can be introduced is often the limiting factor. This article explores why the implementation of strategies that depend on major systems developments is so difficult, and offers a way forward to meet the challenge.
