Industrial and asset-intensive operations
Enterprise Inventory and Planning Optimization
Inventory and long-term planning assessment for a large asset-intensive organization, with an integrated transformation roadmap.
- $50M+
- Opportunity identified
- 4
- Functions aligned around one number
The situation
A large asset-intensive organization faced high inventory levels, inconsistent long-term planning practices, limited materials visibility and fragmented governance across inventory and planning activities.
The challenge
The organization needed to improve material availability while reducing excess and obsolete inventory, strengthening working capital performance, clarifying decision rights and improving coordination among Supply Chain, Maintenance, Operations and Finance.
The ISI approach
ISI Consulting Group partnered with supply chain, operations, maintenance, finance and organizational leadership to assess inventory and long-term planning processes.
Implementation
The work evaluated current-state processes, data, governance, planning practices, inventory policies, performance measures, organizational responsibilities and implementation readiness.
Lean supply chain methods, value stream mapping, inventory segmentation, excess and obsolete inventory analysis, process redesign, KPI development, governance design and change management were applied to develop the future-state roadmap.
Results
- Identified more than $50 million in planning and inventory improvement opportunities
- Developed an integrated inventory and long-term planning transformation roadmap
- Identified opportunities to reduce excess and obsolete inventory
- Established clearer inventory ownership, governance and decision rights
- Improved alignment among Supply Chain, Maintenance, Operations and Finance
- Defined future-state planning and inventory management processes
- Developed KPI dashboards and recurring performance management routines
- Prioritized initiatives based on business value, effort, risk and implementation readiness
- Established an approach to implementation governance, benefits realization and performance gap closure
Key services applied
- Enterprise Transformation
- Performance-Based Implementation
- Inventory Optimization
- Working-Capital Improvement
- Long-Term Planning
- Lean Supply Chain
- Value Stream Mapping
- Process Design
- Governance Design
- Performance Management
- Change Management
- Benefits Realization
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