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What is supply chain?
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Supply Chain, as an integrated system is everything in-between commonly know disciplines such as Finance, Sales, Marketing and Engineering. It is the connective tissue that adapts, integrates, synchronizes, validates and executes. Supply Chain is the art and science of getting things done effectively, and it is the system from which information for building competitive advantage in a company’s operations strategy is extracted and verified.
The term “Supply Chain” in itself is misleading, since “supply” is just one aspect of many in the system. Value Chain may be a far better term since we’re ultimately talking about the managed integration of several disciplines to generate and deliver value for the customer. |
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What is Supply Chain Resilience?
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Supply Chain Resilience refers to the speed at which a supply chain can return to regular operations after a risk event. Companies who have resilient supply chain operations hold a significant competitive advantage to those who do not. Since supply chains and business environments are only becoming more challenging; speed to recovery is a predictor of future success.
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What industry are you focused on?
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We support multiple manufacturing industries. We have experience in automotive, defence, medical, electronics/tech, industrial automation and equipment manufacturing to name a few. The essential rules of how design, engineering and supply chain need to integrate to be effective, apply across industries.
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Who are your customers?
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We work with anyone who manufactures (or intends to manufacture) a physical product. Most often these are SME’s – Small and Medium Enterprises. We exist to help companies do more with what they have and build their competitive advantage.
We work with Contract Manufacturers (CM’s), and Service Providers to help them improve their own operations, and to help them work with their own customers. We work with Investors and Stakeholders to provide risk mitigation, and to develop structured and measurable strategies and execution support. |
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I’m a startup. How can the Supply Chain Operations Assessment help me?
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Unlike well-established companies, startups have to consider their supply chain strategies and how they will execute supply chain operations well before they even exist. How your product will be produced, and what supply chain strategies your business goals will require need to be understood well before production even begins. The Supply Chain Operations Assessment will provide you with a roadmap of what will be required (and in what order) to support your business as it scales.
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How can the Supply Chain Operations Assessment help new business owners?
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Newly acquired businesses need to baseline their existing resources against their business objectives before they can determine which resources are sufficient, and which are lacking according to the new business scope and strategy. In a merger, it is important to be able to understand how to blend pre-existing resources at two or more companies into one, effective supply chain operations system that will be able to scale and support the new business objectives. Our Supply Chain Operations Assessment will provide this critical information.
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How does Naviga detect specific risk indicators in individual supply chains?
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We have developed a qualitative analysis method that extracts data from the knowledge and experience that exists in your organization. This includes the non-documented (tacit) knowledge possessed by staff across your organization. The data is compiled and analyzed across 6 risk categories, 100 references, and 1,000 potential risk indicators. This results in a comprehensive detection of risks that are specific to your supply chain operations.
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Can your services help us to prepare for and adopt technology solutions?
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Yes. Our solutions can be used to evaluate technology solutions for your company. For companies who wish to increase profitability, productivity and growth, we firmly believe that the priorities are People, Process and Technology – in that order. Technology can only accelerate the processes you already have. If the processes are not effective or not focused on the right priorities, it will accelerate negative impacts and costs. Processes are only as good as the people who make them work. These people hold the background experience and knowledge that make everything work, so it is critical that they be involved in defining and refining processes.
Our solutions are focused on understanding the people, resources and data existing at any given company first, in order to understand what’s needed to support the business goals. We do not believe in a one-size-fits-all checklists and approaches. In this way, our solutions can be used to lay the groundwork for successful qualification of needs and technology adoption. |
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I already know my risks, why do I need a resilience framework?
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Understanding risks in your supply chain operations is only half the challenge. The ability to develop, evaluate and prioritize mitigation strategies is crucial to the long term success in achieving strategic business goals. These mitigation strategies need to enable your organization to not only be resilient, but to be able to re-evaluate your risks over time since some risks will resolve and new ones will always materialize as business environments change. Supply chain risk and resilience are fluid phenomenon that must be regularly revisited.
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I don’t have the resources to dedicate to ongoing supply chain risk and resilience evaluation. How can I keep up?
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Once Naviga has completed the supply chain resilience framework for your company, it can be quickly and easily reassessed in the future at regular intervals to respond to changing risk and business environments. There is no need to re-do the full framework process from scratch as time goes on.
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