Put a ‘W’ in Your Supply Chain Column
Improve Your Odds of “Winning” Even Before You Launch Any New Initiatives
By Clay Thomas, Principal ArganoSCMO2
Inflation. An over-heated economy. Persistent supply challenges.
Winning customer fulfillment—and winning the bottom line—is made much more difficult in today’s business environment, especially when you are still relying on homegrown ERPs, Excel planning spreadsheets and other limited legacy tools.
With significant adversity in the marketplace today, your responsibility as a supply chain or IT manager is to identify and prioritize the processes and systems that can be reinforced or improved to contain costs and maintain margins. Win THAT game, and you help keep the business going and stay ahead of the competition. Argano’s strategy of stacking SAP companies to cover your supply chain end-to-end creates an invaluable bank of expertise that can help you improve your odds of “winning” even before you launch any new initiatives.
Before embarking on any initiative, how you start the analysis has a significant impact on the overall investment. Do you choose a high-priced advisory firm or big-name consultancy to provide initial direction and prioritization? Once embedded, you will likely have to retain those pricey resources to do the actual work, potentially with a more entry-level, lower skill set. Do you risk committing to a specific tool and a niche consultancy that supports it? Realize that you may be investing in momentum down a path before validating it as the right direction for your company.
Our purpose is to enable your digital transformation. We continue to grow our SAP collection of companies to provide the market with the best of both worlds: assessment and process experts to prioritize and roadmap your initiative across all supply chain planning and execution functions; and depth of expertise in each of the prescribed tools to drive efficient implementations and solution adoption. All of which sets you further along the right path in achieving your corporate objectives and metrics.
As an executive of the former SCMO2 and now a part of Argano for nearly a year, I have eagerly anticipated the addition of other SAP-focused companies that complement our long track record of enhancing customers’ supply chain planning and process improvement efforts. With Echelon SG, also an SAP Gold Partner, now officially under the Argano umbrella, our collective supply chain expertise is further expanded across the SAP suite and with additional offices and resources around the world.
Combining their focus on operational and transactional activities built on an ERP and supply chain execution foundation with our road mapping, supply chain planning and SIOP process expertise, mid- and large-cap companies now have a true go-to option that virtually guarantees a win.
Looking to put a W in your supply chain column? Argano’s SAP services will help you get there.
