How do you integrate operations from end to end?
The demand for customer centric focus, end to end integrated operations and optimal cost management has never been greater. This is why companies need to examine their most important operational value chain functions closely, starting from customer relationship management and proceeding to sourcing of services and goods. Only then is it possible to manage costs properly, thus enabling an agile response to changing conditions and further driving business growth.
The challenges you face
- You have too much idle capital locked up in the supply chain.
- You want to carve out a part of your operations from the existing business.
- You are looking for a new strategy to optimise procurement.
- Your organisation is seeking a practical framework to improve operating processes to reduce costs, capture lost revenue or streamline services offered.
- You want to achieve quantifiable improvements by minimising inefficiencies and improving decision-making processes and controls.
- You are looking to improve the general efficiency of your physical supply chain.
- You need to re-assess whether you are getting the most from your customer management systems and processes.
- You have just undergone a period of rapid change and are looking to transform service delivery through shared service centres, off-shoring or service re-design.
- You need assistance in managing your company's physical assets, including property or real estate.
How PwC can support you
- We provide access to our vast experience on working capital management.
- We deploy our capabilities in management and process improvement to help companies optimise operating processes and supply chains, applying Six Sigma and other standards.
- We help transform important operational value chain functions, from customer management to the sourcing of services and goods.
- We apply proven cost management methods to enable companies to respond quickly to changing conditions and to drive business growth.
- We help improve value, reduce waste and costs bringing forth sustainable growth.
Contacts
Leader Strategy & Operations
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Tel: +41 58 792 16 21
Leader Supply Chain Excellence
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Tel: +41 58 792 15 68
Of further interest
- Publication: Technology Forecast: Winter 09 Crossing the big divide between strategy and operations
- Publication: Annual Global
CEO Survey - Publication: Outsourcing comes of age: The rise of collaborative partnering
- Operational effectiveness measures in manufacturing
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