Up to 3%
revenue uplift
Up to 10%
lower supply chain costs
Up to 30%
lower inventory levels
Up to 5%
improvement in asset efficiency
And a lot less stress and operational disruptions for your people, who are continuously challenged by ongoing disruptions in global value chains.
How we help
We work with our clients across the full transformation life cycle, from vision through execution and sustained adoption. Our teams typically support two types of transformation:
In a complete reset of a company’s planning setup, connected planning capabilities are established through a unified decision model that improves trade-offs, aligns execution, and focuses the organization on the decisions that create the most value.
Often, concept and tool implementations fall short of the initial ambition. In this case, momentum is restored by identifying where a transformation has stalled, realigning priorities to business outcomes, and rebuilding the governance, capabilities, data foundations, and adoption needed to deliver results.
Planning expertise
Connected planning and planning transformation recovery capabilities are enabled by focused expertise along key supply chain areas:
Cross-functional design is core to our approach with a focus on translating business needs to the planning model and connecting commercial, supply chain, and finance through integrated scenario planning with clear trade-off logic to reduce decision latency, eliminate inefficient processes, and improve forecast reliability.
Expert support helps improve forecast quality, supply responsiveness, and inventory policies across strategic, tactical, and operational horizons, reducing excess inventory and reactive freight while protecting service levels and freeing working capital.
The translation of IBP decisions into operational plans through detailed production scheduling and procurement scheduling is essential for effective decision execution and the ability to react to market changes.
With most of the value chain often sitting outside the four walls of the company, effective supplier planning integration is essential. Industry-suitable planning integration processes and solutions help make the end-to-end value chain run in full sync.
While technology is seen as an enabler, a deep understanding of Kinaxis, o9, SAP IBP, OMP, and Anaplan helps select the best-suited solution based on business value drivers along with designing, improving, and configuring those solutions.
Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing planning. A clear view of where AI can improve the end-to-end planning process helps drive impact across orchestration, forecasting accuracy, acceleration, and augmented or automated decision workflows.
Data sits at the core of good planning decisions, helping define and implement the planning data model and establish integrated data work flows with AI-enabled exception management to foster reliable, timely, and efficient data that trigger insights.
End-to-end transformation
Our clients benefit from Kearney’s supply chain expertise with expanded capabilities in data, analytics, optimization, and systems implementation, built through targeted investments and alliances. This lets us deliver planning transformations from strategy through implementation with a clear focus and ownership on business outcomes rather than change requests driving cost escalations.