Oliver Wight launches fast track offerings for supply chain improvement

Filed in archive General on February 28, 2009

If you look at the consulting market for supply chain today, you clearly see that many companies are not investing in big transformational projects but tend to spend money on quick cost reduction work. So I see more and more consulting firms launching such programs:

Oliver Wight is one of them which has launched a series of "Fast Track" business improvement programs. They are designed to help companies deliver the performance they need under current trading conditions.

CEO of Oliver Wight EAME, Les Brookes, says, "The current global economic climate is obviously putting increased pressure on businesses and making it ever more difficult for them to achieve their short-term goals. This series of workshop-based programs is designed to give companies some substantial 'quick wins', with rapid improvements in business performance and a return on investment within months."

The Fast Track programs are more than just a short-term fix, however: they provide the basis for sustained performance and they can equip organizations to deliver continued business improvement into the future.
The seven Oliver Wight Fast Track programs are:

1. Working capital reduction
2. Order-to-cash time compression
3. Product portfolio optimization
4. Supplier cost improvement
5. Engineering spares re-profiling
6. Customer order fulfilment
7. Capacity utilization improvement

Each program provides an immediate diagnostic of the business and a process for supply chain optimization, root-cause analysis and solutions development - plus a tool kit to drive continuous improvement, with a set of performance measures to benchmark improvement against.