You seek Visibility, but… can’t achieve it without Intelligence.
Why don’t you have the information you need for visibility throughout your supply chain? We find the answer varies from company to company.
Information hoarding? Data silos? Maybe. Can you TRUST your data? Or will you make incorrect assumptions based on bad data? …and have you considered EACH constituent in your supply chain?
Who makes the decisions and how to do navigate the politics?
WHAT ARE you trying to achieve? It’s a complicated journey. Many think visibility is a technology problem– but really, we find it’s a cultural problem.
The goals of supply chain visibility are simple. So why, after decades, do less than 10% of companies possess a end-to-end view of their supply chain? Modern supply chains face unprecedented pressures. A highly competitive labor market, rising inflation, rapidly evolving consumer demand and the push for increased sustainability are but a few of the challenges--combined those with highly unpredictable events and increasing regulations and you can see a need for improved levels of supply chain agility.
The major challenge to achieving visibility via supply chain agility is the level and quality of data needed to provide a unified view of all aspects of the supply chain. Many point to the technical complexities of multiple trading partners, numerous application systems, siloed data, data latency, and reconciliation of data. While these are issues to be addressed, the true challenge for organizations trying to achieve supply chain visibility is realizing it’s not a technology problem, it’s a cultural problem.
That is where NCS Partners can help. Your successful supply chain visibility journey requires forethought, integrated planning, collaboration, organizational change management and constant communication. Our Supply Chain Visibility Maturity Assessment assists organizations in understanding how they compare to peers and best practices across five functional categories with common set of best practices to predicate success in each:
Vision & Strategy
Compliance & Risk
SC Operations
Data Environment
Analytics
We start each client journey with our Supply Chain Visibility Maturity Assessment which assists organizations in understanding how they compare to peers and best practices across five functional categories. The survey can help validate areas of concern, identify areas of excellence and guide clients to greater understanding of where they can make the quickest impact for visibility results. Visibility is your goal, but understanding how to get there, that’s where we fit in with Intelligent solutions.
To learn more and get a free customized assessment report click here.
What is NCS Partners Supply Chain Intelligence (SCi)?
NCS Partners created the Supply Chain Intelligence practice area to focus on the needs of organizations needing improved data visibility to drive measurable results and better decision making across all platforms. SCi Services are not sequential, offering you various entry points based on your unique needs.
SC Visibility Roadmap services builds on your organization’s business needs and industry best practices to create a set of prioritized programs and projects, Organizations that have yet to capitalize of digitization or lack the information to perform progressive analysis will benefit from developing a strategic roadmap.
Sustainability & ESG Strategy services assist organizations in defining sustainability goals, understanding reporting and data needs, creation of business cases and development of an integrated sustainability roadmap.
Data Assessment services provide a comprehensive review of your organization’s supply chain data environment. We benchmark your data architecture and usage patterns against industry best practices, then use this with your specified business goals to develop a data foundation roadmap to guide investments in supply chain data & analytics.
Supply Chain Data Repository services assist you in the design, platform selection (if appropriate), development and deployment of a supply chain data repository. Leveraging our unified supply chain data model, we supported repository types including modern data warehouse, data mart, data lake, and digital twins.
Data Analytics services work with business users and IT professionals to define the data ecosystem, reporting, ands analytic needed to meet business goals. This includes reporting, dashboards, visualizations, data exploration, alerting, and AI/ML models.
System Integration services provide assistance in building or deploying specific solutions to meet your supply chain visibility needs. NCS Partners has relationships with many of the industry’s leading providers and can provide system integrations services to meet your needs.
NCS Partners supports all of its services with its SPEAR continuous improvement methodology. SPEAR provides the process and metrics that ensure your investments in new technologies evolve and remain relevant to business users.
How is SCi by NCS different than SC service
offerings from other providers?
NCS Partners prides itself on being a trusted advisor to our customers. We value our customer’s time and resources and developed a survey-based assessment model that is at the core of our SCi services. Our survey models ensure consistent and accurate capture of organization thoughts and sentiments.
This begins with our Supply Chain Visibility Maturity Assessment. The Maturity Assessment measures organization’s maturity in supply chain visibility disciplines including vision & strategy, data environment, operations, analytics, and compliance & risk. The Maturity Assessment produces a comprehensive report showing organizations how they compare to peer organizations as well as where they are in the maturity curve. We maintain the privacy of all organizations that take the survey. The resulting database provides invaluable information regarding best practices and the state of supply visibility across industries.
To take the supply chain visibility maturity assessment
click here.
Our assessments are grounded in industry best practices and are designed to capture relevant data to ensure interviews and workshops are focused on your organizations most critical supply chain issues. The matrix below shows our assessments by service and the associated workshops. Mousing over an assessment will provide a more detailed description.
Supply Chain Visibility
Roadmap
The Visibility Roadmap Assessment identifies areas of clarity and ambiguity in the organization’s SC strategy. Output from the survey drives interview questions and is reviewed in a SCV Visioning Workshop.
Sustainability & ESG
Strategy
The Sustainability and ESG Maturity Assessment performs a deep dive into your organization’s planning and execution processes to assess a current level of maturity in incorporating sustainability and ESG into day-to-day operations
SCi Services
SCi Data
Assessment
The SC Data Assessment pinpoints detailed opportunities and areas of concern with organizational data to be explored during interviews and later reviewed in a Data Visioning Workshop.
SCi Data
Repository
The SCi Data Repository Needs Assessment expands on the Data Assessment to assist in defining the optimal architecture and toolsets needed to deliver a database solution that will be the foundation for supply chain analytics.
SCi
Analytics
The Data Analytics Needs Assessment identifies areas of opportunity existing in key supply chain decisions. The assessment examines the breadth, depth, accuracy and timeliness of supporting reporting and analytics.
Survey results feed the Data Analytics Roadmap Workshop.
SCi Systems
Integration
The SCi Systems Integration Needs Assessment varies based on the type of solution to be developed and/or deployed. The assessment seeks to elicit the top-level requirements for the solution(s) that will be used to structure design and configuration workshops.
