Strategic Services Our strategic services support engagements that identify or examine transformation opportunities within your business. These services reflect our core competencies; discovering opportunities for improving agility, productivity, integration and profitability. The services are described here in generic terms; we will work with you to create engagement terms of reference that are specific to your priorities and requirements. All strategic engagements include a written deliverable. Executive assessment of supply chain opportunities What unexploited opportunities exist within your supply chains? What options are available for taking advantage of these opportunities? Executive Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution value analysis Is your company getting the value it should from the functional features available in your installed ERP solution? If not, what can be done? Business process performance analysis and recommendations An examination of specific business processes that you nominate; to assess how well these processes are performing. The exercise will include recommendations for key performance indicators to monitor these processes. Business ‘BMI’ assessment The principles of ‘BMI’ or Body Mass Index that is used to assess the health of an individual are applied to your business. A set of fundamental business metrics and benchmarks are employed to assess the health of your enterprise. Inventory Management Analysis This is an analysis that focuses exclusively on inventory investment and inventory related processes. It includes a segmented analysis of your inventory investment and an assessment of how your current processes impact your inventory balances. Inventory is one of the best measures of a company’s agility, flexibility, supply chain practices, inventory management policies and related inventory process execution. For most product-centric companies, the significant ills of the business will be reflected by inventory positions. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) review/selection Support for the review and selection of an ERP solution. Includes methods and techniques for defining meaningful solution requirements and comparing alternatives. Applied Transformation Technology Assessment An examination of your business processes from a transformative technology perspective; it explores opportunities for leveraging transformation technologies; the hardware, systems, methods and techniques that enable a business to do business differently, not just better. The scope includes traditional technologies that have proven very powerful (e.g., kanbans), business system technologies (e.g., eliminating invoices and invoice matching with evaluated receipts settlement), and emerging technologies (e.g., wikis, RSS feeds, podcasts and mashups). - top of page - | 
