Boston Strategies
International helps oil, gas, and process industrial companies achieve supply chain leadership by
addressing complex challenges that can have many possible answers. We
compete with the top consulting firms and win because our work is more
thorough, we use appropriate tools at lower cost to deliver
pragmatic, actionable recommendations, and we measure our value against strategically important and measurable targets such as "dollars of externally purchased equipment, materials, and services per barrel of oil produced."
Supply Chain Consulting
Our typical supply
chain strategy engagements include the following:
Supply Chain
Strategy, Policy and Economic Analysis
Operational Planning and Budgeting
Logistics and Procurement Project Management and System Implementation
Supplier Development and Recognition
Organizational Design, Development and Training
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Global Supply Chain Strategy, Policy and Economic Analysis Supply chain management should yield far more than cost reduction. It should result in delighted customers, marketing flexibility, and enhanced innovation and speed of doing business across multiple processes. While traditional operations improvement has focused on how to reduce cost without sacrificing service - reducing inventory without sacrificing service levels, reducing fixed cost by planning and scheduling work to avoid bottlenecks, and lowering transportation cost through structured negotiations - today's supply chain leaders are tailoring their supply chain management processes and systems to their business strategies, and achieving dramatic results. Companies seeking to develop an effective supply chain strategy turn to Boston Strategies International.
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Operational Planning and Budgeting
Large fixed investment is a fact of life in the energy and natural resources businesses, as well as in transportation and logistics infrastructure. This brings large risks and many capacity-related questions, such as: how much to outsource; how to determine the optimal time horizon for capacity investments; how to manage the risk of falling demand and rising costs; and which engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) firms make the best partners. Project managers turn to Boston Strategies International for knowledgeable and fact-based answers to these tough questions.
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Logistics and Sourcing Project Management and System Implementation Supply chain risk has become a priority in today's age of terrorism and geopolitical turbulence.All companies need to develop the capability to identify potential material unavailability, price increases, and regulatory complications before they occur.The price of downtime, delays, material cost, brand name defamation, and even litigation is simply too high.A key component for achieving this capability is to implementing a process that includes advanced risk measurement methodologies.Companies turn to Boston Strategies International for the logic and risk management modeling that underpin these early warning systems. To read more about risk mitigation strategies, please visit the cost and pricing analysis section of the Boston Strategies International Library.
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Supplier Development and Recognition
Growth requires
coordination and alignment with suppliers on objectives, processes, and
standards of excellence, and levels of performance.External support is an excellent facilitation
tool to ensure alignment and a common foundation for growth. When companies
want to succeed in building global supply chains despite the risks, they turn
to Boston Strategies International for benchmarking, auditing, negotiation, and
logistical planning.
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Organizational Design, Development and Training Supply chain management is about managing information and deploying assets flexibly with the end-customer in mind.People are the enabler, and the movement of information is as important as the movement of goods or services.Yet, to most people coming from the functions that make up the supply chain, "supply chain management" is so broad a concept that it is often ill-defined and inadequate as a basis for organizational development.When companies want clarity and usefulness in developing their supply chain skills, they turn to Boston Strategies International. To read more about world-class supply chain organization development, please visit the supply chain organization section of the Boston Strategies International Library.
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