Planning Transformation in a global Supply Chain organization
A leading pharmaceutical company undergoing a comprehensive supply chain reorganization aimed to implement an advanced planning system to streamline critical planning processes and enhance overall efficiency and decision-making. To fully realize this transformation, the company needed a standardized and cohesive framework to support and sustain these improvements across its supply chain operations.
Ambition: standardizing processes to drive planning efficiency
The supply chain transformation presented an exciting opportunity to enhance efficiency and reduce production lead times by refining and standardizing planning processes. By clarifying roles and responsibilities and streamlining workflows, the organization could unlock greater collaboration and operational agility. Aligning these processes with the new advanced planning system positioned the supply chain team to operate more effectively and drive long-term success within the reorganized framework.
How we helped
We assisted in developing an end-to-end supply chain process framework to enhance planning efficiency and ensure role clarity across the supply chain. Through process design workshops, we helped document both the current and future state processes, aligning master production scheduling with rough-cut capacity planning such that the material requirements planning started to run more smoothly. To measure and improve planning maturity, we supported in benchmarking the organization’s progress using SCOR-DS standards, creating a robust model for process alignment and future scalability.
Results
The new process framework improved planning efficiency and elevated the skills and proficiency of the planning organization as a whole. With a mapped process that aligned with ERP and APS systems, the client achieved better coordination and consistency, reducing lead times and enhancing overall supply chain responsiveness.
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