Supply Chain Design Excellence
Eight questions to test yourself
How many can you answer with confidence?
01
How confident are you that your supply chain design capability is a genuine competitive advantage, rather than something that kicks in when a crisis forces your hand?
02
Every time you need a network, inventory or footprint study, do you have to bring in external support? And is that really how you planned it to stay?
03
Do you have a repeatable, governed design process with shared standards and assumptions, or does every study effectively start over from scratch?
04
When your team sits down to run a design study, how much of their time goes into finding, cleaning and reconciling data before any real analysis even begins?
05
Do you have a structured plan for growing SCD skills across your team, or is your design capability sitting with one or two people and no clear path if they leave?
06
Do you have a prioritised pipeline of supply chain design initiatives that balances quick wins with longer-term strategic plays?
07
If your most senior stakeholders were asked right now whether supply chain design shapes your business strategy, what would they say, and do you agree?
08
If you had to place your organisation on a maturity curve, from ad hoc proof-of-concept work to supply chain design embedded into the business, where would you land, and where do you need to be?
Talk to a supply chain expert!
The questions you could not answer are the ones worth talking about. Our experts work with supply chain leaders every week on exactly these challenges. Reach out and let us start with where it hurts most.
