The Case Studies below tell of some of our recent assignments. This list will be updated, so come back regularly to keep up with our progress.

Multinational Glass Fibre Manufacturer

We worked with the leadership team and their six sigma organisation to implement a global S&OP process in this $900M business. The organisation had grown by acquisition in Europe, but the acquired companies remained largely autonomous from a planning point of view. Before we implemented S&OP, the business had a very short-term focus, there was no process to match supply with demand, and inventory levels were rising rapidly. Within 6 months of starting the project, inventory levels had been reduced to below the annual operating plan target, customer service had improved and the business was dealing with issues over an 18 month horizon.

 

National Biscuit Manufacturer

The Board of this £300M+ FMCG business asked us to implement an Integrated Business Planning process and a stage and gate New Product Development process. The business had just relocated its head office leading to very high management turnover, and had suffered from a profits collapse the previous year. The IBP process was introduced to bring control back to the business. Before the project started, inventory levels were very high, along with discounts to clear age challenged stock, and write-offs of obsolete packaging material as a result of disintegrated processes between marketing, sales and operations. Within 9 months, inventory levels had fallen from 22 days to 15, discounts had reduced and packaging write-offs were minimal.

The business liked the StrataBridge approach so much that we were asked to lead the Board strategy development process, and subsequent development of a balanced scorecard strategy map.

 

European Division of Global Paper Products Manufacturer

This $15Bn consumer goods giant has pan-European product supply serving local country based sales and marketing organisations, but was suffering from severe customer service issues due to misalignments between demand and supply. Major investment in SAP systems including APO and BW, had not helped. Building on our S&OP knowledge and our additional SAP expertise, we completed an assessment of their forecasting and supply planning processes across Europe and developed the plan to implement European wide S&OP.

 

European Division of Multinational Frozen Foods Business

We planned and executed a Request for Quotation process for this business, part of a $4Bn US business who wanted to implement SAP-APO, BW and SEM. After development of the business case, and the tender document, we arranged bid presentations from various major SAP consulting partners, managed the assessment process and assisted in the negotiations with the potential vendors.

 

AI Manufacturing Plant of Global Pharmaceutical Company

In this $20Bn pharmaceutical company we designed and implemented a programme of workshops to educate the newly formed management team on performance management and the balanced scorecard. The output of the project was a balanced scorecard strategy map reflecting the newly developed strategy with objectives, KPIs and associated initiatives.