We are there for your consulting requests, interim management requirements, and training needs.
Whether you need to gain detailed insights about your operations, to improve efficiency or resilience, to solve specific problems or to grow capability, we can assist you across the End-to-End Supply Chain.
SC Analysis
Conducting in-depth assessments of your existing supply / value chain, due diligence, identifying bottlenecks and waste streams, and recommending improvements.
Strategic Analysis
Value Stream Mapping
SC Cost Analysis
SC Due Diligence
SC Disciplines
We support you in building or improving key Supply Chain disciplines – each critical for reducing your waste and cost, and for improving service levels.
Manufacturing
Demand Management and Procurement
Warehousing and Logistics Optimization
Inventory management
Core Capabilities
We help you initiate or grow your teams' capabilities in a number of foundational competencies; again, each essential for lean and efficient operations.
Cross-functional Planning
Project / PMO and Innovation Management
Risk Management
Continuous Improvement
Training
We provide dedicated training sessions on most of these practices,
tailored to your individual expertise and business needs.
Supply Chain Analysis
Strategic Analysis
Conducting comprehensive evaluations of your existing supply chain and its alignment with your overall business strategy, to ensure it supports your company's long-term goals. This usually includes aspects like SC Network Optimisation, Sourcing Strategy, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), Production Planning approaches, and SC Resilience.
Value Stream Mapping
Value Stream Mapping (VSM) can help organizations significantly enhance overall process effectiveness. It is designed to identify and eliminate inefficiencies, and to reduce lead times and operational costs. Depending on the complexity of an operation, it can be done in more or less detail. One can also assess the entire end-to-end value chain, or zoom in on a specific challenging area.
SC Cost Analysis
When improving profitability is the main objective, Cost Analysis focuses on evaluating various cost components associated with the entire supply chain, from procurement to distribution, in order to identify cost drivers and saving opportunities. It usually includes Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Cost-to-Serve Analysis, and Activity-Based Costing (ABC).
SC Due Diligence
Following Germany, the introduction of the Supply Chain Due Diligence Directive (SCDDD, or LkSG in German) is hotly debated on an EU level. But apart from legal or moral reasons, performing proper Due Diligence on your upstream supply chain is also critical for timely mitigation of your supply risks. Delft Consulting partners with scrioo™ for a very cost-effective, easy AI-driven solution that greatly facilitates your compliance and reporting.
Supply Chain Disciplines
Manufacturing
Many production companies have significant untapped savings potential thanks to numerous available manufacturing optimization techniques. Improve your efficiency with TPM methodologies like JIT, Kanban, Quick Changeover (SMED), and Kaizen. Improve your Quality Control and reduce rejects with Six Sigma approaches. Reduce "the 8 wastes of LEAN". Build you own system from many of the components of P&G's Integrated Work Systems (IWS).
Demand Management and Procurement
Develop more accurate demand forecasting models to help optimize your inventory levels and avoid stockouts or overstocking – integrating AI, if and where useful.
Procurement processes can benefit from Supply Chain tools like Supplier collaboration / CPFR, order management systems, transport optimisation, lead-time reduction, and risk management.
Warehousing and Logistics Optimization
We can help you streamline your transportation, warehousing, and distribution processes, including reverse logistics and waste management, to enhance operational efficiency, reduce lead times, and optimize costs.
Logistics & Distribution operations can be improved by a range of techniques that are both practical and cost-effective, like transport routes optimisation, OMS, X-dock, (re)packaging optimisation, perfect staging, and last mile solutions.
Inventory Management
We can guide you in implementing efficient inventory management techniques, such as produce-to-demand (PtD), just-in-time (JIT), buffer classification, smart slotting, statistical economic buffer/order quantity (EBQ/EOQ) models, and approaches like Vendor Managed/Owned Inventory (VMI/VOI) to minimize carrying costs while ensuring adequate stock availability.
Core Capabilities
Cross-functional Planning
Upgrade your planning processes: integrate cross-functional processes (S&OP 2.0, IBP, …) to gain efficiency and accuracy in demand and supply planning, and have the right decisions taken at the right time, based on the right input – including commercial insights. Not reliant on corridor-communication, these processes are equally robust in a work-from-home setting.
Project Management / PMO and Innovation Management
We help you grow project & program management capability, with a choice of different methodologies.
We support you in boosting your effective innovation output, crucial for growth, sustainability and competitiveness. Techniques include Managed idea generation, x-functional funnel mgmt, open innovation, and rapid prototyping.
We can also supplement your team as an additional dedicated resource, or even take on the cross-functional leadership of a specific project or program to ensure its successful completion.
Risk Management
We will support your transition from reactive to proactive risk management. We help you identify supply risks throughout the value chain, define your Risk Management Strategy, formulate mitigation plans, and setup implementation and monitoring. We can also guide you through the creation and implementation of Business Continuity Plans (BCP).
Continuous Improvement
Continuous Improvement represents a cultural shift within organizations. It is a mindset that embraces change, values innovation, and encourages every member of the organization to contribute. Implementations requires an integrated explicit approach, in conjunction with a powerful set of tools and methodologies based on TPM, LEAN and Six Sigma, including techniques like PDCA, Kaizen, Kanban, 5S, RCA, 5 Why's, Gemba, and Value Stream Mapping.
Training
To support your team’s professional growth and equip them with the required knowledge and skills, we provide training sessions on most of the above practices.
These training programs will be designed to cater to your individual business requirements. Contact us at any time to discuss your suggestions, and we will customize the programs accordingly.
