How to make your operations perform*
The way your operations are designed and managed determines the value you provide to your customers through your level of service and cost. The special focus you need and the proven practices we offer will help you to achieve a new level of competitiveness and business flexibility.
If this is your situation
If your business situation can be described by the following characteristics you definitely need to invest in constant improvement of your operations:
- Several production facilities
- Several trade facilities
- High number of clients
- High number of products
- High working capital and fluctuating costs
- Complex production or distribution cycle
- Fluctuating finished goods demand
- Fluctuating raw materials demand
- Fast growth, including acquisition of new business, merger or expansion to new markets.
In most environments the following common issues are a sign of inefficient operations organization and substantial money being lost:
- Lack of planning and execution visibility and responsiveness
- Missed delivery deadlines, high lead times, inadequate quality of service
- High operational costs, inventory volumes and accounts receivable
- Poor transport and warehouse utilization
- Many non-value adding activities
- Poor performance measurement
- Lack of demand-supply synchronization
- Poor data collection and information management, unreliable and inaccurate data processing, lack of automation.
How PwC can help you
If you are a CEO, CFO or CIO, you contribute to operations performance. The services we can provide to boost your operations include:
Organization and strategy
- Diagnostics of operations and development of the operations and supply chain strategy
- Development of the organization structure
- Optimization of planning, execution and control processes
- Development of key performance indexes for operations and functions
- Operational due diligence
- Post-merger integration support.
Geography, processes and layout of operations
- Optimisation of procurement and sales geography
- Development of efficient layout for production and warehousing
- Sourcing, production and distribution routings
- Dispatching and control of material flows, management of bottlenecks
- Cost management and reduction.
Business Technology
- Selection of SCM and WMS systems
- Methodology support during implementation
- Data preparation and management support.
*connectedthinking
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