Sector
Supply chain and logistics
“From raw materials to the distribution center, to the end customer and back, global supply chains are growing ever more complicated. Geo-political instability and the desire to “friend-shore”, the need to meet ESG regulations, and increasing end-customer expectations add to that complexity. In supply chain and logistics, companies that achieve transparency and traceability for their customers will outpace the competition. This hinges on adopting the right technology and data capabilities.”
Sameera Simjee
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“From raw materials to the distribution center, to the end customer and back, global supply chains are growing ever more complicated. Geo-political instability and the desire to “friend-shore”, the need to meet ESG regulations, and increasing end-customer expectations add to that complexity. In supply chain and logistics, companies that achieve transparency and traceability for their customers will outpace the competition. This hinges on adopting the right technology and data capabilities.”
Sameera Simjee
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Supply chain and logistics consulting to help compete in a complex, fast changing world
Supply chains are more complex and globally interconnected than they’ve ever been, and client expectations and demands of supply chain and logistics companies are ever-increasing. It’s a highly competitive environment, with significant pressure on profit margins.
Berkeley provides supply chain and logistics consulting, to help you deliver the digital capabilities required to derive better insights and deliver more value for clients.
Delivering technology-enabled supply chain digital transformation, transparency and visibility
We can help supply chain and logistics companies implement technology, such as tracking and geolocation capabilities, to ensure transparency and visibility at every stage of the supply chain.
This includes achieving traceability related to environmental sustainability and ethical sourcing. There is growing regulatory and consumer pressure on retailers and consumer packaged goods companies to demonstrate they are delivering on brand promises around sustainable and ethical sourcing, including labour practices. By partnering with Berkeley’s supply chain consulting team, we can help you build the capability to guarantee product authenticity.
Together with this, there is a constant competitive pressure to run enabling IT services more efficiently. Our specialist consultants can help you to assess and implement the right technology to fit your exact needs and requirements. We always keep the end-user in mind, with our key goal to hand over technology that is user-friendly, efficient, scalable, and fit for purpose, ensuring that the desired supply chain management benefits are realised.
Enhancing customer value through strategic supply chain consulting
Our expertise on supply chain digital transformation, strategy and operating model enables you to better act as a true business partner for your customers and deliver value. This can include developing new products and services to better meet customer demand.
Empowering supply chain and logistics companies through data
Berkeley’s supply chain consulting services can help you get more out of your data, enabling data-driven insights and better, quicker and more informed decision-making as a result.
We can also help ensure the security of that data. With supply chain systems so interconnected with other companies, they are especially vulnerable to cyber criminals and other malicious parties. Berkeley can help you gain peace of mind over your cyber security, implementing the latest technology and best practice to ensure data control and risk reduction.
Supply chian consulting: specialists in complex, challenging transformation
Berkeley specialises in complex, challenging transformation – and there are few circumstances as complex and challenging as global supply chains. We are the ideal partner to help you develop creative, tailored solutions that will lead to substantive, lasting outcomes for your business. When we work together with our clients, we always remain focused on doing the right thing for them and on reaching the goals they want to achieve.
Sector
Consumer goods
Sector
Retail
Berkeley's involvement really helped to turbo-charge this piece of work. They struck a good balance between what's 'technically' correct in Project and Programme management and what was going to be most effective for the Brambles business. This was stronger than we would have built ourselves and more likely to be successfully adopted by the business than if we had stuck rigidly to one particular framework.
VP Global Transformation Portfolio Lead, Brambles
Clients often ask us…
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How do I need to change my supply chain and logistics business to better serve my customers?
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How should my customer proposition evolve to stay competitive?
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How do I establish a more secure and reliable supply chain technology infrastructure?
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How do I maximise the benefits of data to improve supply chain transparency for my customers?
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How do I maximise the benefits of data to improve my own asset productivity and traceability?
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How do I deliver transformational change in my business more cost-effectively and more reliably?
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How do divest a business unit or integrate an acquisition reliably and with minimal disruption?
Client stories
Global supply chain logistics company
Our client – a global supply chain logistics company – works with many well-known consumer goods brands, making them an attractive target for potential cyber criminals. In the wake of several well-publicised major supply chain cyber-attacks on other companies, the executive leadership team and board recognised they faced a significant risk – which could result in substantial damage to financial performance, business continuity and reputation.
The company embarked upon a three-year scope of work to realise their strategy of increasing their cyber maturity and mitigating their most immediate risks. They needed to be able to identify and manage cyber risks; protect themselves from attacks; efficiently detect and respond to incidents when they did occur; and have the capability to recover quickly.
Upgrading systems to support swift growth
Xaar were growing fast and had made big commitments to ramping up that growth still further. They knew their current systems needed to be changed to support this growth and they were close to making a big ERP investment which could well have proved to be an expensive mistake. We were called in to review this decision and quickly set them on the right course to creating a firm foundation for continued growth.
Running a rigorous vendor selection and mobilisation process
Our client was a global consumer goods company mobilising a €100m+ programme to achieve a major step change in its global information capabilities. The programme was one of the company's top strategic initiatives, not just for IT but for the business worldwide. With such a lot at stake, our client engaged us to provide programme delivery expertise and to help them run a rigorous supplier selection and mobilisation process, appointing the organisations who would ultimately support them in creating a new fit for purpose infrastructure.
We worked closely with the client's own procurement function, making the most of their internal expertise but supplementing that with our strong external experience of delivering similar programmes at other clients, and our specialist knowledge of the products and services being bought.
Client stories
Our client – a global supply chain logistics company – works with many well-known consumer goods brands, making them an attractive target for potential cyber criminals. In the wake of several well-publicised major supply chain cyber-attacks on other companies, the executive leadership team and board recognised they faced a significant risk – which could result in substantial damage to financial performance, business continuity and reputation.
The company embarked upon a three-year scope of work to realise their strategy of increasing their cyber maturity and mitigating their most immediate risks. They needed to be able to identify and manage cyber risks; protect themselves from attacks; efficiently detect and respond to incidents when they did occur; and have the capability to recover quickly.
Xaar were growing fast and had made big commitments to ramping up that growth still further. They knew their current systems needed to be changed to support this growth and they were close to making a big ERP investment which could well have proved to be an expensive mistake. We were called in to review this decision and quickly set them on the right course to creating a firm foundation for continued growth.
Our client was a global consumer goods company mobilising a €100m+ programme to achieve a major step change in its global information capabilities. The programme was one of the company's top strategic initiatives, not just for IT but for the business worldwide. With such a lot at stake, our client engaged us to provide programme delivery expertise and to help them run a rigorous supplier selection and mobilisation process, appointing the organisations who would ultimately support them in creating a new fit for purpose infrastructure.
We worked closely with the client's own procurement function, making the most of their internal expertise but supplementing that with our strong external experience of delivering similar programmes at other clients, and our specialist knowledge of the products and services being bought.
