Delivering measurable benefits through data-driven insights
Through Supply Chain Analytics we give clients access to powerful, customisable applications and tools, helping to rapidly identify optimisation opportunities and performance improvements, all delivered through our secure, cloud-based portal environment.
Empowering business functions to make better decisions, faster
Supply Chain Analytics Applications
Best-in-breed applications helping you to make sense and drive unparalleled insight from your data
Spend Analytics
A unified view of historic and future spend supporting day to day operational & strategic decision making.
Benefits
• Facilitates more intelligent, “fact based” conversations with suppliers shifting the power dynamic in your favour
• Underpins and informs category / sourcing strategies to optimise outcomes and minimise business risk
• Ability to mitigate cost increases before they happen
• Full control over calculation method of KPIs for your business
• 3-5% year-on-year cost improvement typical through best-in-class Analytics
Features
• Automated data consolidation and transformation rapidly connecting disparate systems
• Smart data processing technologies, combined with human oversight to maintain data integrity over time
• Simple, user-friendly interface allowing you to drill down from macro views to transaction level in seconds
• Historic & forecast spend analysis by commodity / supplier and any other custom dimension of choice
Performance Analytics
Create a common standard for measuring and analysing supplier QCD performance with drill down to areas of greatest material impact.
Benefits
• Empowers procurement to have better quality ‘fact based’ conversations with supply chain
• Creates a culture of ‘data led’ decision making informing commodity and supplier strategies
• Improved collaboration with supply chain through the sharing of supplier scorecards
• 10% performance improvement just through greater transparency with your supply chain
Features
• Analyse QCD performance by supplier, commodity, site, buyer or any other custom dimension of choice
• Analyse trends over time and drill down to transaction level to understand the root cause
• Validate / override data outside of ERP/MRP to ensure data integrity providing confidence in the data to take action
• Invite suppliers to view and challenge their Scorecard to improve SC collaboration
Inventory Analytics
Empower business functions with tactical & strategic actionable insights to tackle root causes driving inventory excess / shortage.
Benefits
• Tactical & strategic insights empowering team to take action
• Single source of truth where improvement becomes a multi-functional discipline
• +20% opportunity identification through data insights led approach
• 10% Inventory improvement not untypical within the first 12 weeks
Features
• Full traceability of system parameter changes over time and impact on inventory position
• Actionable data insights enriched by augmented data (performance, spend, customer etc)
• Action management and reason code analysis allow users to focus on areas of potential improvement
Supply Chain Analytics Applications
Best-in-breed applications helping you to make sense and drive unparalleled insight from your data
Spend Analytics
Spend Analytics
A unified view of historic and future spend supporting day to day operational & strategic decision making.
Benefits
• Facilitates more intelligent, “fact based” conversations with suppliers shifting the power dynamic in your favour
• Underpins and informs category / sourcing strategies to optimise outcomes and minimise business risk
• Ability to mitigate cost increases before they happen
• Full control over calculation method of KPIs for your business
• 3-5% year-on-year cost improvement typical through best-in-class Analytics
Features
• Automated data consolidation and transformation rapidly connecting disparate systems
• Smart data processing technologies, combined with human oversight to maintain data integrity over time
• Simple, user-friendly interface allowing you to drill down from macro views to transaction level in seconds
• Historic & forecast spend analysis by commodity / supplier and any other custom dimension of choice
Performance Analytics
Performance Analytics
Create a common standard for measuring and analysing supplier QCD performance with drill down to areas of greatest material impact.
Benefits
• Empowers procurement to have better quality ‘fact based’ conversations with supply chain
• Creates a culture of ‘data led’ decision making informing commodity and supplier strategies
• Improved collaboration with supply chain through the sharing of supplier scorecards
• 10% performance improvement just through greater transparency with your supply chain
Features
• Analyse QCD performance by supplier, commodity, site, buyer or any other custom dimension of choice
• Analyse trends over time and drill down to transaction level to understand the root cause
• Validate / override data outside of ERP/MRP to ensure data integrity providing confidence in the data to take action
• Invite suppliers to view and challenge their Scorecard to improve SC collaboration
Inventory Analytics
Inventory Analytics
Empower business functions with tactical & strategic actionable insights to tackle root causes driving inventory excess / shortage.
Benefits
• Tactical & strategic insights empowering team to take action
• Single source of truth where improvement becomes a multi-functional discipline
• +20% opportunity identification through data insights led approach
• 10% Inventory improvement not untypical within the first 12 weeks
Features
• Full traceability of system parameter changes over time and impact on inventory position
• Actionable data insights enriched by augmented data (performance, spend, customer etc)
• Action management and reason code analysis allow users to focus on areas of potential improvement
Bespoke Digital Tools
Our apps allow for customized tools & insights to help address the questions most material to your business.
Deep Transactional Analysis
Deep analysis of transaction level data with a focus on addressing the ‘so what’
Cross-functional Data
Augmenting cross-functional datasets to deliver unparalleled insights
Data Augmentation
Augmenting your data with external sources to predict the future
tools include
Procurement Control Tower
KPIs reporting & analysis with drill-down to actionable insights.
Commodity Analytics
Commodity analysis to support category strategy development and management.
Supplier Segmentation
Objective, data led assessment of supplier strategic fit to business needs.
Operational Procurement
Operational health and insights optimise MRP use & maintenance.
Payment Terms Optimisation
Standardise terms for cross site suppliers. Leverage BIC terms by commodity group.
Material Index Alignment
Overlay part pricing with material index movements to highlight misalignment.
Supply Chain Risk
Augment qualitative & quantitative data with external feeds to assess SC Risks.
Part Scanner
Highlight opportunities to align price, reduce stock / lead time for common MPNs.
Balanced Scorecard
Augment qualitative & quantitative data to support fact-based supplier reviews.
Insights to Action
Tailored insights and prescriptive analytics
Through our ‘Insights to Action’ approach we deliver measurable benefits by implementing prescribed actions from data-driven insights.
Our insight empowers teams to work smarter and create a culture of data-led decision making and with the integration of AI can automate and enhance insights.
Example cost insights
• Supplier growth
• Volume based leverage
• Batch optimisation
• Price rollback
• Price clawback
• Supplier consolidation
• Exchange rate alignment
• Market price variance
• BoM Kitting
• Inflationary excess
• Multi-item supply
• Price volatility
• Supplier benchmark
• Post Covid recovery
• LCC opportunity
• Multi-site supplier leverage
• Contract optimisation
• Forecast ratio
Example cash and efficiency insights
• Payment terms alignment
• Aggregator opportunity
• Consolidated invoicing
• Supplier ERP blocking
• Auto PO opportunity
• Supplier proliferation
• Stock sellback
• Safety stock alignment
• PFEP strategy
• Leadtime alignment
• Min/max level alignment
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