Boston Strategies
International provides pre- and post-contracting support to ensure the realization of the initial sourcing goals. These often include goals such as quality, productivity, cost, and realization of a target percentage of local content. Since the goals are often mutually exclusive (for example, achieving cost objectives may reduce quality), BSI deploys experience, technical resources, and global resources to ensure that management has positive results to report to the Board.
Our typical supply
chain engagements include the following:
Supply Chain
Strategy, Policy and Economic Analysis
Operational Planning and Budgeting
Logistics and Procurement Project Management and System Implementation
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 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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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.
Case Study
Industry:
Public Infrastructure
Key
Challenge: Changes in the regulatory framework mandated "best practice"
warehousing, and a methodology was needed to decide whether "best practice"
called for a centralized or decentralized network.
Why BSI
was Selected: BSI's renowned supply chain cost methodology and logistics reengineering
experience.
Project
Scope: 350 facilities, 283 suppliers, 11,000 SKUs, 73,000 orders per year,
10,000 deliveries per year
