Supply Chain Management is a vast and fascinating arena wherein all participants are required to perform in an aligned, collaborative, and engaged manner to achieve objectives. As in other disciplines within the business, to achieve set goals it is essential to have the right level of expertise on board. 


The expectations of each customer segment needs to be well understood to develop your competitive strategy. The supply chain team will determine whether, in their current form, they can support all requirements of each market segment targeted. Where there are gaps in meeting a segment’s needs, the company must either invest in order to close them, or decline to support that customer segment until they are in a position to do so.

The final step in achieving strategic-fit is understanding the implied demand and supply uncertainty which drives the sourcing function in the right direction.

Coterie SCM ensures you will have an expert with a post-graduate degree in this field to ensure the management of your supply chains will become a value-adding function within your organisation.

Opportunities to raise performance levels and reduce costs exist in all functions across the supply chain, internally and with your partners.

Without this expertise the following shortfalls are often encountered:

• Inventory objectives and strategies are either missing or poorly set.
• Insufficient attention placed on the selection and management of supply chain partners.
• A poor grasp of where to be more responsive or efficient to meet customer expectations.
• Not enough emphasis on supply chain network structures and the opportunities at each node.
• A failure to measure KPIs to drive behaviours.

While our list of shortfalls is far from definitive, they all relate back to the quality of leadership that is in place across all supply chain processes.