Supply Chain Innovation Supply chains demand flexible, contemporary solutions capable of addressing today’s most complex challenges. From volatile market dynamics to disruptive technologies and ever-changing customer demands, businesses are confronted with numerous obstacles that require innovative strategies to drive value and orchestration across the supply chain.Protiviti’s Supply Chain Innovation Consulting service offering goes beyond conventional methods to solve problems. We have the experience, expertise and innovative approach to address the most complex challenges facing supply chains today. Whether you seek to optimize inventory management, improve logistics efficiency, enhance supply chain transparency or explore the potential of emerging technologies, Protiviti is your strategic partner for supply chain innovation. Insights paper March 15, 2024 Strategic Sourcing: Gaining Advantage, Mitigating Risk A shift in mindset to a strategic sourcing strategy anticipates and mitigates supply chain risk while improving resilience and responsiveness, still aiming to reduce total cost of ownership. Read More Supply Chain Innovation Services Pro Briefcase Automation and Orchestration We guide clients on the redesign of process, technology and data to improve coordination and efficiency. By enhancing visibility, reducing data silos and improving process efficiency, thoughtful supply orchestration can unlock the full potential of your supply chain and help you adapt to your customers’ needs. Pro Building office Collaboration We help clients ensure a smooth path through the growing range of demand and supply planning, order collection points, fulfillment, and delivery options with intelligent order management (IOM). Integrated business planning facilitation helps consistently align business goals with operations functions. Pro Document Consent Visibility & Transparency Supply chain visibility and reporting helps leaders make better decisions. We help clients improve visibility across customers, suppliers, inventory, transportation and distribution by breaking down data silos and improving transparency so they can make informed and timely decisions and reduce supply chain risk. graph Simulation & Scenario Modeling Through scenario modeling and simulation, more informed decision-making is now achievable. We utilize predictive analytics as well as digital twins to identify patterns within data to accurately predict future behavior. We develop tailored solutions, utilizing emerging technologies to address our clients’ unique business goals. Our Approach Our Supply Chain Innovation Consulting team focuses on solving the most complex problems facing supply chains today.The approach we follow embraces emerging technologies and develops tailored solutions that align with the unique business goals of our clients. Our commitment to driving value for our clients is founded on a threefold approach:Current-state analysis: Identification of areas where innovation can bring transformative impact and drive valueTailored solutioning: Customized strategies and solutions that logically fit into existing operations, empowering you to optimize the supply chainFuture-proof implementation: Agile, scalable and adaptive solutions to help ensure that your supply chain remains resilient and ready to tackle future challenges that arise.Every business is unique, which is why our team takes a personalized approach to every engagement. Working closely with our client’s key stakeholders, we develop roadmaps for success, ensuring efficient implementations and measurable results. We’re passionate about driving supply chain excellence and look forward to partnering with clients to achieve success. We develop tailored solutions, utilizing emerging technologies to address our clients’ unique business goals. Technology Partners Technology partnerships are a driving force behind our Supply Chain Innovation Consulting offering. Our alliance partners bring cutting-edge solutions that seamlessly integrate with our consulting expertise, fostering efficiency and growth for our clients. Some of our key partners include: Leadership David Petrucci David has 30 years of operational improvement and innovation experience working across industry, technology and consulting organizations. His specialty is developing new business and organizational models enabled by the intersection of business & technology. ... Learn More Lucas Manganaro Lucas Manganaro is a Managing Director at Protiviti and leads the Supply Innovation Practice. Throughout his 20+ year career, Lucas has held multiple supply chain and procurement leadership roles focused on transforming business processes and leveraging technology to ... Learn More Featured insights BLOG A Return to Capacity Planning: Staying Ahead in the Manufacturing Industry For many manufacturing companies, capacity planning may seem like a relic of the past. However, geopolitical tensions, tariffs, a renewed focus on onshoring and heightened M&A activity are bringing capacity planning back to the forefront. Our... BLOG New Thinking for CFOs on Strategic Sourcing CFOs need to support efforts by their procurement groups to design and execute a modern approach to strategic sourcing that prioritizes cost optimization and aligns with the organization’s new supply chain risk management frameworks. By the... PODCAST Podcast | Strategic Sourcing: Gaining Advantage, Mitigating Risk – with Lucas Manganaro Supply chain management continues to be a hot topic in countless organizations in light of ongoing geopolitical challenges, evolving impacts of climate change, new tariffs, changing labor markets, and much more. How can supply chain and procurement... BLOG Integrated Business Planning: Navigating Volatility, Creating Resiliency The big picture: Challenging market conditions and volatility are driving the need for organizations to have greater resiliency, agility and flexibility to maximize profit while reducing risk. Between the lines: FP&A, profitability, reporting... SURVEY 2024 Top Risks in the Manufacturing and Distribution Industry The economy, talent and cyber threats drive concerns for manufacturing and distribution leaders beyond supply chainIn an ever-evolving and rapidly changing business landscape for manufacturing and distribution organizations, executives and boards are... BLOG Meeting Digital Retail's High Customer Expectations Means Being Clear-Eyed About Weaknesses, Capabilities The big picture: Today’s digital retail consumers have little tolerance for organizations that do not meet high customer service standards for accurate and timely fulfillment of orders. Transparent and real-time communications about order status have... Button Button Featured client stories Offshore Drilling Firm Finds Major Savings Through Source-To-Pay Assessment, Spend Analysis, Category Management Protiviti conducted a complete source-to-pay assessment, from spend analysis and contract management to procurement function governance; implemented a spend analytics platform to conduct analysis to create a sourcing wave plan; implemented a category... Environmental Nonprofit Builds Supplier Diversity and Sustainability to Meet Climate Change Goals Protiviti supported changes to our client’s purchasing processes and tools to attain diversity and sustainability goals, starting with setting targets and ultimately delivering a solution to capture supplier data and track attainments. Manufacturer Optimizes Supply Chain Analytics With Azure Machine Learning Global Manufacturer optimizes supply chain analytics with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning significantly improving its ability to adapt to rapid changes in both processes and cost analyses. Resource backfill, technology and process change drive state procurement improvements Many institutions in the public sector are faced with improving the efficiency and responsiveness of their services and operations to better serve stakeholders and the public. High turnover and lengthy recruiting cycles are creating both a loss of... Global Multimedia Organization Transforms Sourcing and Procurement Function and Saves Millions Using spend analytics findings, Protiviti helped the client build and strengthen a procurement department with a custom procurement taxonomy. Working with the client’s first procurement leader, we helped secure an e-sourcing tool. A National Retailer Takes on Inventory Shrink to Improve Margins Protiviti created a transparent end-to-end process flow by identifying gaps and providing recommendations for improvement and savings. A data deep dive reviewed elements of sales, markdowns and shrink data and a statistical analyses of shrink,... Button Button
