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 market segment targeted 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 to close them, or decline to support that market segment until they are in a position to do so.

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

Coterie SCM ensures you will have an experienced expert with a post-graduate degree to ensure your supply chains become a value-adding functions of the business. Coterie teams can identify opportunities that raise performance levels and reduce costs across all functions, both 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.
• Not enough emphasis on supply chain network structures and the opportunities at each node.
• Insufficient amounts of response or efficiency within supply chain networks.
• A failure to measure those KPIs that drive behaviours.

While our list of shortfalls is far from definitive, they all relate back to the level of expertise available across all supply chain processes.