Supply Chain Audit and Value Stream Mapping for a Marine Equipment Manufacturer
The Challenge
The company was entering a phase of rapid growth and planning an ERP migration, but its supply chain wasn't ready for it. The absence of warehouse and transport management systems, a lack of KPIs, and heavy reliance on manual work and a handful of key people were limiting productivity and scalability.
What We Do
Value stream mapping and an operations audit across seven areas, from logistics to engineering and digitalization.
Over 25 interviews with staff across all departments.
Assessment of IT system utilization and a review of the warehouse layout.
Development of an executive summary, a recommendations catalog, and an implementation roadmap covering 14 initiatives.
Results
ERP system utilization found to be just 30 percent of its capability.
Around 30 percent of project managers' time consumed by locating components.
Over 140 hours per month of logistics time consumed by manual work.
Summary
The audit gave management a full diagnosis of supply chain maturity along with a transformation roadmap. It recommended implementing warehouse and transport management systems as an intermediate step ahead of the full ERP migration, delivering an immediate improvement in tracking and productivity.
