Our Capabilities

Supply chain strategy & transformation

With economic turbulence around the world, corporations across all industries are responding to the rapidly changing landscape. Significant shifts in macroeconomic factors are impacting companies’ go-to-market strategies. Leading companies are responding to these challenging times with action—moving on global expansion strategies, streamlining their product mix, tightening operations, and improving processes and capabilities. These changes significant affect supply chains.

A.T. Kearney has helped numerous clients think through the future and develop and implement a transformational plan that enables their supply chain to fulfill the strategic objectives—both top and bottom line—of the organization. These transformations often involve stakeholders beyond the enterprise, including Suppliers, 3PL service providers, customers, and even competitors.

Product flow and inventory optimization

Changes in business strategies mean significant adjustments in the way companies move products from suppliers to consumers. Companies need to address key issues, such as differentiating product flows, and tailoring transportation and inventory strategies, to meet consumer demands while optimizing cost.

A.T. Kearney has proven capabilities in developing product flow and inventory strategies—integrating business and operational understanding with unmatched capabilities in analytics.

Supply chain processes and infrastructure optimization

Companies are being forced to fundamentally rethink their supply chain infrastructure because of pressures on physical infrastructures with increased global supplier footprints, multiple handling methods, inventory build-up of slow moving items, and deteriorating lead-time performance.

We have helped global retailers, consumer goods companies, and process industries redesign their distribution footprint, technologies, processes, and organization models to help them through the implementation journey.