Supply Chain Excellence Crimson & Co's ‘Supply Chain Excellence’ is a proven benchmarking and improvement tool. Supply Chain Excellence’ has been developed to answer questions being raised predominantly by our multi-national clients, with diverse operations regionally or globally. It has successfully answered these questions and proven to dramatically raise service levels, reduce costs and standardise processes
Benchmark
Crimson & Co ‘Supply Chain Excellence’ benchmarks your supply chain against industry best practice - and across your own operations. It is underpinned by a regularly updated knowledge base of supply chain best practice in manufacturing companies. It is modular and can be used ‘out of the box’ to deliver a rapid assessment of one or more parts of your supply chain. If you are planning on longer term use, it can be adapted to reflect your organisation structure, terminology and strategic objectives. It contains in-depth knowledge spanning the following key areas:
Raise Standards
‘Supply Chain Excellence’ delivers a detailed and objective assessment of strengths and weakness across our clients’ operations, regionally or globally. Strengths are shared to raise standards. Weaknesses are analysed, prioritised and addressed to achieve our clients’ strategic objectives, which are typically to raise service levels, reduce costs and standardise processes.
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What our clients say
British American Tobacco (BAT) is the world’s most international tobacco group, with a diverse quality portfolio of brands sold in more than 180 markets, focused on their six global drive brands and a responsible approach to doing business sustainably from crop to consumer. British American Tobacco has ambitious targets to reduce operating costs, whilst enabling growth through innovation and quality delivery. To support this strategy, Crimson & Co developed a BAT-specific Supply Chain Excellence tool, which assesses the excellence of all of the supply chain processes (Plan, Source, Make, Deliver) against required standards, and generates a set of improvement actions for each business unit. This Supply Chain Excellence tool is being deployed globally.
Crimson & Co have delivered a high quality product which we believe will fit our current & future needs very well.
Sean Mallon
Group Head of Supply Chain Planning at BAT
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PZ Cussons are a leading FMCG company providing soap, toiletries and laundry brands to consumers across the world, with ambitious operational growth targets, particularly in emerging markets in Asia and Africa. The group takes pride in its knowledge of local markets, enabling their operating companies to respond quickly and appropriately to local needs. To support this approach, Crimson & Co developed a PZ Cussons-specific Supply Chain Excellence tool which audits the maturity of all supply chain processes (Source, Make, Plan, Deliver, Demand) against required standards. This has been successfully deployed in Europe, Asia and Africa and recognises the need for processes and services to be customised to suit the local needs, as well as understanding the benefits of group wide standardisation.
Crimson & Co provided a fast and effective customisation of their supply chain excellence content to the unique requirements of our business. The resulting material was invaluable in enabling us to assess our global operating units and create structured improvement plans to support our stretching business objectives.
Paschal Fitzgerald
PZ Cussons Supply Chain Development Manager
