Our client was the world’s leading life sciences company, the result of a merger.   The global Supply Chain organisation wanted to develop their senior managers, operators and policy makers to help them become more flexible, adaptive and ultimately innovative.

Our project was to design and deliver an approach, which would generate and manifest greater creativity and innovation throughout the global supply chain organisation, whilst delivering significant improvements in performance.

We designed the programme around a series of workshops in different parts of the supply chain. I.e. Global inventory, new manufacturing site strategy, global planning & forecasting improvement.

We worked alongside the client teams to provide the appropriate background data for the workshops in a visual, easy to absorb format…which helped to frame each problem.  We facilitated each of the workshops which ran over several days and followed a 3 stage process of framing the problem, generating and selecting ideas and implementation planning.  A combination of analysis, innovative thinking and robust evaluation criteria supported the workshop design and delivery.

The joint team identified significant business benefits in a number of areas, including a $300m benefits case for reducing the global inventory.  In addition we had introduced a new collaborative style of working to teams which, prior to this project, had a history of not co-operating with each other.