Supply Chain Maturity Quick Assessment

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What’s Your Supply Chain Maturity?

In today's disruptive environment, shippers achieving supply chain excellence are focused on strategy and design, warehouse optimization, transportation optimization and training. Take our 5-question quiz to see how your supply chain strategy stacks up – and how you can improve to see better results.

End-to-End Supply Chain Alignment

Is your company working towards a clear vision and aligned in operational execution strategies?

Reactive/Chaotic: No, we're operating week by week with little planning or alignment beyond the next month.

Industry Standard: Somewhat, we have a vision but struggle to implement it into long-term operational strategies.

Service/Value: Yes, we have a clear vision and are aligned to it company-wide with strategic execution and cascaded KPIs.

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Service/Value: Yes, we regularly conduct supply chain network designs in order to adjust strategies and improve customer experience.

Industry Standard: Somewhat, our network could probably be more efficient. But we don't have a benchmark to compare.

Reactive/Chaotic: Not sure, we haven't reviewed or optimized our network in several years.

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Is your supply chain network optimized to balance cost and service?

Network Optimization

Service/Value: Very well, we have a robust carrier management process that maintains capacity and service despite disruptions.

Industry Standard: Ok, carrier capacity and performance fluctuates during supply chain or market disruption.

Reactive/Chaotic: Not well, we always struggle with finding carriers and holding them accountable to on-time, in-full goals.

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How are your carriers performing?

Transportation

Service/Value: Our facility operations are streamlined with the end-to-end supply chain and are on a digital/robotic transformation journey - automating in appropriate places.

Industry Standard: Our facilities operate with documented processes, clear management systems, and basic problem-solving measures in place.

Reactive/Chaotic: Our facilities have siloed processes that challenge productivity and make us miss customer deadlines.

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How are your facilities performing?

Warehousing / Distribution

Service/Value: Yes, we have very low turnover and absenteeism, employees are excited to come to work every day, and are working at every level to improve our business.

Industry Standard: Somewhat, we have typical turnover and absenteeism, but fail to keep employees excited about working here.

Reactive/Chaotic: No, it's a daily challenge for us to hire quality talent and keep them here.

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Are your employees fully empowered, equipped, and engaged to drive supply chain improvements?

Supply Chain Team Member Engagement

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Result: Low to Medium Maturity Optimizing a supply chain requires a strategic vision and road map that everyone in the organization can align around to move forward.

End-to-End Supply Chain Alignment

Transplace Consulting and Training Solutions Our consulting experts partner with you to optimize end-to-end supply chain functions such as network design, transportation planning and procurement, warehousing and manufacturing. Through better asset management, business intelligence and analytics, these services provide advanced visibility and agility to anticipate and react to challenges, while helping to continuously enhance your customer experience.

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Develop a clear long-term vision and align on supply chain operating principles/guidelines

Develop a clear management system with holistic Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that flow down to the execution level

Enable problem solving and root-cause information sharing to Sales, R&D, Marketing, and Merchandising to better define organizational strategies with Supply Chain operational constraints

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End-to-End Supply Chain Alignment

Result: High Maturity Optimizing a supply chain requires a strategic vision and road map that everyone in the organization can align around to move forward.

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Result: Low to Medium Maturity

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Network Optimization

Result: High Maturity

Result: Low to Medium Maturity During times of extreme uncertainty, we advise shippers to keep a closer watch on proactive procurement, carrier compliance, accountability and remediation.

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Transportation

SaaS TMS: Automate and optimize your transportation management.

Plug-and-play with existing systems. All modes. Better results.

Data Insights: Make data-driven transportation decisions.

Actionable intelligence with benchmarks and reporting on spend and service metrics.

Transportation

Result: High Maturity During times of extreme uncertainty, we advise shippers to keep a closer watch on proactive procurement, carrier compliance, accountability and remediation.

Result: Low to Medium Maturity Inbound and outbound facilities are the bridges that drive flow throughout the entire supply chain. To facilitate this flow, they must have mature processes that focus on speed, cost, quality, and service.

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Warehousing/Distribution

Result: High Maturity Inbound and outbound facilities are the bridges that drive flow throughout the entire supply chain. To facilitate this flow, they must have mature processes that focus on speed, cost, quality, and service.

Result: Low to Medium Maturity Employee engagement is paramount to supply chain success, and is most effectively achieved when leaders coach front-line employees to empower and equip them to make decisions and drive daily problem solving.

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Supply Chain Team Member Engagement

Result: High Maturity Employee engagement is paramount to supply chain success, and is most effectively achieved when leaders coach front-line employees to empower and equip them to make decisions and drive daily problem solving.

Supply Chain Alignment

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Enable problem solving and root-cause information sharing to Sales, R&D, Marketing, and Merchandising to better define organizational strategies with Supply Chain operational constraints

Develop a clear management system with holistic Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that flow down to the execution level

Develop a clear long-term vision and align on supply chain operating principles/guidelines

Develop a network strategy that balances supply chain performance with total cost across the overall supply chain footprint

Develop a network strategy that improves inventory positioning, customer service and overall supply chain footprint

Perform ongoing inbound/outbound network designs to manage through disruption (ex: shortages, changing customer demands)

Develop a network strategy that balances supply chain performance with total cost across the overall supply chain footprint

Develop a network strategy that improves inventory positioning, customer service and overall supply chain footprint

Perform ongoing inbound/outbound network designs to manage through disruption (ex: shortages, changing customer demands)

Develop Shipper of Choice and procurement strategies

Develop long-term relationships with reliable carriers

Procure stable, year-round freight capacity and alternate modes of transportation

Develop Shipper of Choice and procurement strategies

Develop long-term relationships with reliable carriers

Procure stable, year-round freight capacity and alternate modes of transportation

Formalize a digital/robotic transformation plan

Design and implement a facility layout that leverages technology to optimize flow and productivity

Clearly define organizational requirements, roles and responsibilities, documenting and measuring critical processes for improvement

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Formalize a digital/robotic transformation plan

Design and execute optimal facility and technology design to optimize flow and productivity, while building a transformation roadmap of facility improvements

Clearly define organizational requirements, roles and responsibilities, documenting and measuring critical processes for improvement

Develop a strategy to increase the meaningfulness of work through tactics like gamification of work processes

Empower and coach employees to solve problems, developing a process to identify, solve and celebrate progress along the way

Build awareness of leadership principles and coach leaders to transition away from command and control leadership styles to engage and empower

Empower and coach employees to solve problems, developing a process to identify, solve and celebrate progress along the way.

Build awareness of leadership principles and coach leaders to transition away from command and control leadership styles to engage and empower

Recommended Actions

Outdated and complex distribution network structures have contributed to over-sized inventory levels, unnecessary costs, a strain on service, and overly complex inventory deployment. Where to locate and how to leverage your assets across the supply chain network are major decisions that depend on many variables.

Develop a strategy to increase the meaningfulness of work through tactics like gamification of work processes