Supply Chain Consulting Services

Strengthen your supply chain capabilities with better strategies, efficient processes, and modern technology.

It is imperative that retailers and consumer brands continually improve forecasting and visibility, along with managing risk across the supply chain to drive revenue, margin, and operating efficiencies. This involves designing uniform, best-practice supply chain processes utilizing common systems to streamline logistics, achieve greater efficiencies, and reduce supply chain costs.

Parker Avery helps companies improve their supply chain capabilities from initial sourcing through fulfillment to the end consumer. Our hands-on experience evaluating and implementing solutions from IBM, JDA, Logility, Manhattan Associates, Oracle, SAP, and other providers gives us deep insight into industry leading practices and solutions for our clients.

Demand Forecasting

Our objective is to vastly improve our clients’ forecast accuracy, minimize exceptions, and optimize sales.

We implement solutions and design the business processes and organizational roles to most effectively adopt new forecasting tools and skills.

Further, we provide several implementation alternatives for Parker Avery’s advanced analytics-driven demand platform to address a client’s appetite to absorb new forecasting approaches and their level of sophistication.

DEMAND FORECASTING CASE STUDIES

Product Development and Sourcing

We support initiatives and strategies throughout the entire product lifecycle, from initial product inception through detailed design, vendor identification, sampling, costing, and product adoption. We help reduce product development timelines and align them with merchandising calendars, enable collaboration with key trading partners, and focus event management on key pre-production and production milestones. Further, Parker Avery focuses on optimizing sourcing, collaborating with vendors, and identifying enabling tools to improve the quality and execution of bringing new products to market.

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT CASE STUDIES

Allocation, Replenishment, and Inventory Optimization

Our supply chain services include helping retailers develop and improve their omnichannel allocation and replenishment processes, as well as selecting and implementing solutions as part of a total distribution strategy. Parker Avery’s subject matter experts help define the best approach to optimizing inventory across the fleet of stores and distribution centers, as well as managing overall inventory levels to best support sales. Our approach includes analysis of store grading, prioritization rules, forecasting, release logic, and distribution capacity. Our objective is to drive turn, improve service levels, and optimize margins while reducing inventory and carrying costs.

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Parker Avery’s supply chain consulting services help you solve your most important challenges through tailored approaches that drive results.

Assessment and Roadmap

A solid understanding of existing capabilities and gaps, as well as alignment on what initiatives are needed to attain a desired state, is critical for successfully solving your most important challenges. We work closely with your teams in assessing your current state and then building a realistic roadmap that prioritizes initiatives so you can achieve desired outcomes.

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Business Process Improvement

Business process improvement work may be included in a capabilities roadmap, in conjunction with a system implementation, or as a stand-alone project. Working in collaboration with your teams, we focus on improving, simplifying, and standardizing your processes to drive efficiency and business performance.

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Organizational Alignment

Working closely with your teams, we focus on properly aligning roles and responsibilities to enhance productivity and business results. Organizational alignment projects are often performed in conjunction with business process and system implementation work, or they can be stand-alone initiatives.

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Change Management

Regardless of size, scope, and cost, all projects produce better results when a company’s leadership ensures a strong change management program is in place. It is critically important that the people whom any change will impact are fully aware of and ready to embrace new ways of working. Effective training and learning mechanisms are vital to ensure adoption and sustainment.

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System Selection

There are a myriad of viable technologies available that may address your specific challenges. However, vendor sales pitches and canned demos cannot show how a system will support your business. We objectively help identify, thoroughly evaluate, and recommend systems that align best with your needs, backed by deep experience with leading retail technology vendors across all functional areas.

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Solution Implementation

To achieve optimal ROI, new systems must support your desired capabilities and drive meaningful business results. This means successful system implementations must go far beyond the technical components. We partner with you throughout all stages of implementation focusing on project management, stakeholder and leadership support, business process design, and impacts on your people.

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Additional Client Case Studies

Integrated Supply Chain Implementation

PLM System Design and Implementation

Strategic Supply Chain Transformation

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