Supply Chain Planning Review & Re-Engineering

SCALA CASE STUDY

Short Shelf Life Bread Manufacturer

Background & Brief

The client, a manufacturer of bread products (Ambient & Frozen) was experiencing significant issues around service, stock obsolescence & production efficiency. There were significant concerns around the production planning (& wider supply chain planning) processes, systems, behaviours & capabilities and the client required a speedy, honest & fundamental review as to what was going wrong and how this needed to be remedied. SCALA were requested to complete this within 3 weeks.

Project Approach

Significant time was spent within the businesses understanding the current issues, ways of working, systems used and organisational capability – this was in the main achieved by spending time with the key individuals involved in the process and the key business stakeholders

From this an end to end understanding of the supply chain planning processes was achieved, a clear view of the operational performance was stablished and an identification of the key issues

A recommendation of various improvements – process, systems, organisational – was provided with clear next steps to achieve implementation

Benefits & Results

SCALA made a comprehensive set of recommendations that would make very significant improvements to service, waste & productivity performance

The key recommendations were pragmatic and could be actioned within a matter if weeks eg a new base weekly production plan was provided for immediate implementation

Longer term strategy recommendations were also provided eg a future strategy as to how to balance Ambient & Frozen planning

Given that the client was in high growth and projecting future high growth particularly a recommendation as to future organisational structure was provided

Final Outcome

The recommendations, presented to the Exec Board of the business gave the client a clear pathway to resolving its Production & wider supply chain planning challenges

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SCALA CASE STUDY