Value-driven supply chain planning is a strategic approach that aims to enhance the value generated by the supply chain for its stakeholders. The goal of value-driven supply chain planning is to align the supply chain management strategy with the overall business strategy to achieve maximum efficiency, profitability, and sustainability.
Companies that embrace value-based supply chain principles, practices, and methods have great potential to improve customer satisfaction, greater operational efficiency, and increased profitability.
How KPMG can help
We understand that every business is unique and their needs, culture, and challenges are different. With our deep industry expertise, we guide clients through the design and implementation of value-based supply chain principles, practices, and methods.
Below are a few examples of the areas we can provide you with the tools and guidance:
- Principles: establish consensus forums (like the S&OP process) between commercials and supply chain to balance demand changes while ensuring cost and inventory optimization
- Practices: implementing best practices like 'what-if' scenarios planning to drive faster and better decision making
- and Methods: tailored segmentation approach to improve your demand forecasting and inventory management
We offer hands-on coaching and structured learning programs with multiple practical and interactive activities to ensure that our clients get the most out of their new practices. Our goal is to provide lasting value and impact to our clients and their businesses.
Our approach to reinforce the Value-driven Supply Chain Planning is by enhancing the 3 critical areas (accuracy of sales and demand forecasting, inventory management, cross function collaboration) with 5 essential building blocks.
Our service solutions include Assess, Design, and Implement, encompassing many aspects of supply chain planning such as Demand Forecasting, Supply Planning, Inventory Management, Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), and Integrated Business Planning (IBP).