Supply Chain Edge (SCE) is a team of supply chain experts that identify, quantify, and implement opportunities and initiatives that drive improvements to key business metrics. These metrics include business growth, earnings per share, return on capital, margins, cash to cash cycle times, and customer service. Clients engage SCE because they need expanded bandwidth on a temporary basis to maximize financial results without jeopardizing competing priorities. Additionally, SCE can serve as a sounding board for senior executives wishing to validate existing practices, policies, strategies, and cost drivers.
When you engage SCE, you get:
· Resources that require little hand holding
· Resources that can implement and execute
· Resources that that came from industry and have come up through the operational ranks
· Resources that understand the political, emotional, and cultural elements associated with change
· Resources that work with your internal talent to get the job done
As globalization and competition become more dynamic, supply chain strategies, cost drivers, and processes play an even larger role in an organizations potential for success. For many middle market companies, the supply chain disciplines are rarely a core competency. SCE provides that core competency and ensures that you get a team that can quantify and prioritize opportunity and hit the ground running when it comes to driving results.