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      Solution

      Supply Chain

      Supply Chain

      Turn your supply chain into a competitive weapon

      Our Impact

      10-20%
      shipping and logistics cost reduction
      20-30%
      customer satisfaction improvement
      8-30%
      savings from integrated supply chain transformations

      Trade volatility, geopolitical tension, extreme weather, and shifting customer demand are reshaping global markets. Leaders need speed, visibility, and the ability to adapt in real time. We’ve supported clients in transforming operations for decades, and we’re now bringing a new generation of digital, AI, and automation capabilities to accelerate results. Our collaborative, results-driven model ensures impact is delivered and sustained.

      We combine deep supply chain expertise with digital tools, AI-driven insights, and automation to improve performance across planning, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, and service. Our proven track record across large-scale change, digital transformation, advanced analytics, and operating model redesign helps improvements stick and performance compound over time. And our global supply chain center of excellence equips clients with fast analysis, benchmarking, and product expertise.

       

      The Supply Chain Questions Leaders Are Facing Today

      The Supply Chain Questions Leaders Are Facing Today

      • How can you boost supply chain resilience and competitive advantage?

        Supply chain reinvention strengthens your supply chain to better develop your strategy so you can build competitive advantage, regardless of your place on the supply-chain maturity curve. It can help organizations tackle capacity constraints, margin pressure, adoption of new digital technologies and AI workflows, and misalignment between supply chain capabilities and strategic ambition.

        We’ve partnered on critical supply chain issues with more than half of the companies ranked in Gartner’s “Top 25” supply chains, and we’ve collaborated with companies across consumer products, advanced manufacturing services, energy and natural resources, retail, and many other industries. Our mix of planning support, digital expertise and tools, and ongoing engagement connects strategy and design to execution, ensuring your supply chain reaches its full, unconstrained potential.

      • What is network optimization and how can it reduce complexity and increase agility?

        Network optimization is the redesign of your manufacturing and supply chain network to reduce complexity, improve performance, and better align assets and flows to future demand. Common causes of increased complexity include asset acquisitions and spin-offs, siloed investments, and evolving regulations. Too often, asset- or plant-level throughput initiatives don’t account for downstream implications across the broader supply chain and manufacturing network.

        Our proven, repeatable approach starts with a detailed current-state assessment and demand outlook, then uses a digital twin to model end-to-end flows, constraints, service levels, and cost-to-serve under a wide range of scenarios. A portfolio of proprietary, AI-enabled digital tools and partnerships with leading technology firms enable real-time feedback. We then define what “full potential” looks like and redesign the network accordingly.

      • In what ways does integrated business planning (IBP) align teams and lead to better decision making?

        Integrated Business Planning (IBP)—often the next level of S&OP—is a cross-functional planning operating model that aligns strategy, service, and financial outcomes by tightly connecting forecasting with supply, inventory, and execution decisions. It brings together demand planning and forecasting, supply and inventory planning, integrated financial reconciliation, and execution across time horizons, supported by the right metrics, diagnostics, and feedback loops. We help you design the operating model and its roles, governance, decision rights, integrate plans and data, and enable it with a scalable tech stack—leveraging partnerships, deep knowledge of leading planning platforms, and a proprietary suite of digital tools—to add predictive and real-time capabilities and drive continuous improvement.

      • What impact can inventory management have on cashflow and service?

        Inventory management helps you plan, track, and control the items it keeps on hand to meet customer demand without tying up too much cash or creating waste. We work with companies to optimize inventory management, first by getting you closer to the current efficiency frontier and then by shifting the curve to achieve step-change improvements in inventory efficiency. We also enable the integration of digital and AI-enabled capabilities, including advanced analytics, across your supply chain to improve visibility, decision-making, and performance.

      • How do we use digital and AI technologies to modernize and streamline your supply chain?

        We work with you to embed the right digital and AI-enabled technologies at key points along the supply chain. Automation, for example, can help accelerate your operational processes while increasing flexibility and the ability to customize. End-to-end visibility and collaboration, including with third-party logistics providers, can boost responsiveness, improve operational planning, and facilitate superior tracing of products and input materials. Advanced R&D management, planning and forecasting capabilities and a range of digital tools and technologies that make employees more productive are also important parts of our portfolio. We'll identify and address essential organizational elements of an effective supply chain, including what level of centralization makes sense and what forms of decision-making, governance and related ways of working will ensure that your supply chain meets its full potential.

      AI in Supply Chain

      Building responsive and resilient supply chains is more critical than ever, and AI is the key to achieving both. We work with you to develop AI solutions to:

      • Use predictive analytics for more accurate demand forecasting
      • Optimize logistics and routes 
      • Increase end-to-end visibility with real-time tracking and early warning systems

      Real Outcomes

      Learn how we’re working with companies to use AI to drive smarter decisions, more streamlined operations, and results that stick.
      See how we’re helping global industry leaders win with AI

      How We Help

      We work with you to build the foundation for future-ready supply chains that are integrated with AI capabilities, enabling seamless, end-to-end operations.
      Learn more about our AI approach

      Analyst Recognition

      Analyst Recognition

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      We have been recognized by IDC MarketScape as a leader in worldwide operations improvement consulting services and digital business strategy consulting services.

      Our Client Results

      Case study

      A Procurement Transformation Turns Cost Control into a Competitive Advantage

      $45 million

      in cost savings

      Case study

      Turning an Operational Complexity into a Multimillion-Dollar Market Opportunity

      $60M

      ARR sales pipelines built

      $250M

      Serviceable market opportunity within ship management confirmed

      Case study

      Supply Chain Security Mitigates a Sovereign Wealth Fund’s Construction Disruptions

      100+

      supply chain mitigation strategies identified

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      Our Supply Chain Insights

      Engineering and R&D
      How AI Is Starting to Transform Circular Packaging
      There are 15 AI use cases companies across the value chain can use today to accelerate circularity.
      Article
      Don’t Underestimate the Cost of Overcapacity
      Overcapacity is endemic to the paper and packaging industry, but these actions can help you maintain margins.
      Paper & Packaging Report
      Circular Economy
      Circular Transformation of Industries: The Art of Scaling Circular Supply Chains
      Circularity is becoming a business necessity—scaling it fast enough will define the leaders.
      World Economic Forum
      Tariffs: The Next Chapter
      Companies need to rebuild their strategies for a world in which the free movement of goods, capital, IP, and people cannot be taken for granted.
      Brief
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      Our Supply Chain Consulting Experts

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      Adam Borchert Partner Boston

      Headshot of Ryan Fisher

      Ryan Fisher Partner Dallas

      Headshot of Thomas Kwasniok

      Thomas Kwasniok Partner London

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      Badri Veeraghanta Partner Singapore

      Dheera Anand Partner Chicago

      Headshot of Rob Ruffin

      Rob Ruffin Partner Boston

      Headshot of Jörg Gnamm

      Jörg Gnamm Partner Munich

      Headshot of Amit Nagar

      Amit Nagar Partner Chicago

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      Procurement

      We help companies develop sourcing strategies for a sustainable future.

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      Manufacturing

      Master digital operations and processes to become an Industry 4.0 leader 

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      Supply Chain Resiliency Index

      Supply Chain Resiliency Index

      How resilient is your supply chain? Don’t let disruption put it to the test. Our Supply Chain Resiliency Index identifies vulnerabilities before trouble strikes, through a quantitative assessment of operational and macro impact risks.

      Read more

      Supply Chain & Operations Decarbonization

      Supply Chain & Operations Decarbonization

      Unlock stronger financial performance by harnessing the power of sustainability with our global experts, cutting-edge capabilities, and strategic partnerships. 

      Read more

      Retail Supply Chain Strategy

      Retail Supply Chain Strategy

      The supply chain is a powerful tool for retailers’ many challenges, including delivering the customer value proposition. Our comprehensive approach helps you transform it to not only navigate uncertainty but also boost your bottom line.

      Read more

      Operations

      Operations

      How much better, faster or smarter could you do what you do? 

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      Product Development

      Product Development

      Innovation is the cornerstone of sustained, profitable growth. We can help you strengthen your innovation muscle and achieve a step-change in product development effectiveness, engineering efficiency and R&D excellence. 

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      Service Operations

      Service Operations

      Balance quality, cost and revenue objectives as you delight customers and motivate employees

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