Solving Efeso provides the capabilities to identify, evaluate and manage change necessary to gain competitive advantage from the supply chain. We do this at the appropriate level required be it strategic, tactical or operational.

Solving Efeso programs for supply chain are not simply focused on cost optimization. They place equal emphasis on value-profit creation and growth. We understand that companies need to build new capabilities to run ever more complex supply chains, influence and shape customer demand and better respond to changes in the market. We truly believe that the supply chain remains largely under exploited as a means to boost growth, efficiency and profit. Solving Efeso know-how helps clients to unlock the opportunities and latent potential.

We are able to identify and evaluate the improvement potential across the end to end supply chain or to the set perimeter agreed with the client. This is important because different organisations see the boundaries of the influence-able supply chain in different ways. In a short period of time we are able to target the relevant levers for improvement that will deliver a cost-effective return on investment for the client.

Besides bringing the management and specialist technical skills for supply chain, we offer the change management capabilities required to engage staff, raise performance, accelerate change and sustain results. In short, we help your people improve the performance of your supply chains and we achieve this by combining what we know about supply chains with what we know about people.

Our supply chain practice has successfully developed and implemented over 20 major strategies together with 100’s of performance improvement projects as standalone assignments or as part of wider operations excellence programs. We have a rich portfolio of project case examples that demonstrate tangible-quantified benefits for clients that operate in all key sectors of the economy.

Solving Efeso is at the forefront of International supply chain development and actively promotes thought leadership through work with leading academic institutions and industry bodies at an International level including the Supply Chain Council and Cranfield School of Management.

Our international team of supply chain professionals is able to respond quickly and efficiently to client requests. Specialists working at Country level are supported by an International Competence Pole that provides expertise in strategy, cross-border supply chain issues and supply chain innovation. The International Competence Pole also ensures that supply chain assignments are deployed to a consistent model in line with the requirements of our multi-national clients.

The supply chain opportunity…

It’s a fact that many supply chains perform at a level well below what is possible.
Most supply chains have hidden potential (“the losses”)

• $225 billion excess inventory in the global supply chain
• 20% of orders are fulfilled imperfectly
• 10% stock loss between DC and point of sale
• 75% of new products failed
• 70% of manufacturing hours wasted
• 20% empty running in transport with logistics cost rising 5-8% p.a

These losses are just some of the tangible opportunities in the 21st century supply chain.

Why is supply chain potential not being fully exploited?
We find it is down to four main reasons;

• Weak supply chain strategy formulation
• Inappropriate balance or use of supply chain tactics
• Inefficiencies in day to day operations and processes
• Gaps in people skills or change management capabilities

Each or any combination of these will jeopardise business performance and undermine competitive position; higher cost to serve, lower return on assets, customer or employee dissatisfaction and loss of market share.

Our goal is to support clients achieve substantial and lasting improvements by addressing targeted opportunities along the end to end supply chain that are being under exploited as a means to boost growth, efficiency and profit.

10 key service lines of the Solving Efeso supply chain practice

• Extended supply chain – deals with management of the extended supply chain, collaboration, outsourcing a better way and benefits from suppliers/ customer integration
• Supply chain strategy – deals with 5 to 7 year vision for investment and development of the supply chain
• Network optimisation – deals with the strategic configuration of physical network including best location and role of facilities (plants, distribution centres etc.)
• Lean flow – deals with eliminating wastes from value stream
• Agile response – deals with supply chain capabilities to quickly respond to short-term changes in demand or supply and handle external disruptions smoothly
• Supply chain balance – deals with decisions to ensure profitable balance between costs, capacity, working capital (inventory) and service level
• WCOM™ supply chain – deals with tangible and sustainable performance improvement towards a vision of excellence in operations
• Route to Market and Channel management – deals with selection and performance of distribution channels based on a comprehensive appreciation of customer value and cost to serve
• Availability and Demand management – deals with the enablers of high on-shelf availability and perfect order fulfilment achieved through efficient sales, operations and planning processes.
• Implementation & program management – deals with the delivery and control of major change initiatives

Solving Efeso has a structured and proven set of methods that provides the framework for assignment delivery in each of our main competence areas for supply chain. Methods can be deployed to achieve rapid performance turnaround or as part of a longer-term staged change programme.

Our signature 3 phase approach for supply chain operations draws from the best of Six Sigma, TPM and Lean techniques and routinely involves the following activities;

• Loss identification - Definition of project, business requirements and supply chain perimeter. Measurement of base-line performance and improvement potential. Engagement of teams.
• Loss eradication – Analysis of options and alternative solutions, business case evaluation. Selection /prioritisation of actions to restore-improve-innovate, delivery of pilot projects. Motivate and drive teams.
• Loss prevention – Staged implementation & roll-out, Control system to hold & sustain performance gains, alignment of supply chain activity, Coaching and guidance in the development of autonomous teams to allow continuous improvement