Supply chain management

The ever-evolving landscape supporting supply chains is currently undergoing dramatic changes, creating new complexities and risks. Today's C-suite is tasked with harnessing the opportunities of a global supply chain while managing its complexities. Inflation is driving up costs throughout the chain and speed-to-market creates greater challenges.

PwC has areas of focus across the full spectrum of the supply chain:
  • Supply chain planning
  • Sales inventory operations planning (SIOP) process
  • Procurement and sourcing
  • Logistics and warehousing
  • Supply chain technology
  • Supply chain management
  • Lean process improvement
  • Mergers and acquisitions

Our strategies help clients avoid supply disruption, quality issues and brand degradation and will work with you to:
  • Reduce and manage supply chain risk
  • Develop supply chain strategy
  • Optimize logistics and networks
  • Plan demand management/sales and operations
  • Improve procurement
  • Manage warehouse and transportation
  • Improve tax effectiveness

Next Generation Lean Next-generation Lean: Letting go of what Lean has become so Lean can become what it should be
Lean has evolved into an inter-industry practice appropriate for any company that seeks to re-invent its workflow and unleash a profound transformation in business processes. Organizations that successfully implement Lean to its full maturity will benefit from increased sales and a closer connection with customers.

Supply Chain Management: Achieving agility through the sales inventory operations planning process Supply chain management: Achieving agility through the sales inventory operations planning process
PwC discusses how an effective sales inventory operations planning (SIOP) process is key to a company achieving its goals of controlling costs, reducing capital expenses, and improving customer service.

10Minutes on supply chain risk management 10Minutes on supply chain risk management
Global supply chains are caught in a perfect storm of rising bankruptcies, soaring debt, tight credit, and weak demand. Even stable, cash-rich companies face increased risk of disruption because of innumerable interdependencies within and across industries. But for such companies the current environment is also an opportunity to pause, and address supply chain vulnerabilities that got overlooked in better times. This issue of 10Minutes discusses how companies can build more resilient supply chains during an economic downturn by identifying their most critical partners and strengthening those relationships for long-term advantage.