SERVICES

SPECIALIZATION

International Business Service

Market Intelligence

SCE provides enough information about the entry markets:

  • Basic entry Information: Get detailed information – regulation, business trends - from the market you plan to do business.
  • Competitors: Discover which factors influence prospective customers, identify your competitors, and obtain pricing for comparable products.
  • Partners: Learn about potential partners from our trade professionals working in the target markets.
  • Industry: Find industry-specific trade data and analysis.
  • Customs Tariffs and Trade Agreement: Obtain country-specific tariff and trade agreement information.

In-country partner alliances

SCE In-country partner alliances services include:
Partner research: vet and suggest private and/or public sector contacts as potential partners for your company in the target market, including distributors, sales representatives, agents, customers, joint venture partners, and government officials

Partner outreach: interview and screen the list of potential partners to discuss their interest in working with your company

Scheduling and logistics: identify a list of prospects for review and schedule appointments with contacts that your company has already identified in the target market and arrange transportation, lodging, and interpretation

Market entry services

Our Market Entry services include:

Market entry strategy: assess your company’s best options for entering the market and give you information on packaging requirements, standard mark-up or commission for distributors or representatives; payment terms, stocking quantities, warehousing options and/or foreign trade zones, International Chamber of Commerce Terms (Incoterms), delivery times, and transportation management.

Competition analysis: analyze up to three of your company’s top competitors in the target market, pricing, and current trends among the competition

Market trends: summarize current trends in the target market related to your company's industry, such as new technologies, regulations, import fees, and more

Market research: find local resources including publications, trade shows, associations, and advertising opportunities

Professional services: identify professionals that your company might need in the country, including lawyers, accountants, realtors, etc.

Tariffs and duties: identify likely tariffs and duties that may apply to your business and calculate the landed costs for your company’s product

Regulations: research relevant legislation and regulations in the target county

SPECIALIZATION

Supply Chain Management Service

Supply Chain Assessment

The first step of creating your Supply Chain Strategy is to conduct an Assessment. This is the most effective Supply Chain Management Assessment available.

SCE clients benefit from our SCE Assessment Methodology tool which helps to get all data needed to picture out the current supply chain situation and gaps between As-Is vs As-If model.

With the Assessment insight, SCE delivers an End-to-End Supply Chain Optimization proposal to be executed by the client or our team of experts.

End-to-End Supply Chain Value Optimization

The End-to-End Supply Chain Value Optimization is achieved when a company is dynamic enough and has the tools (and team) to meet the demand through a synchronized “plan-buy - make-deliver” digitalized supply chain at the lowest cost and risk to the business.

Supply Chain Value Optimization encompasses optimizing the following activities:

Plan: Sales & Operations Planning

Buy: Strategic Procurement

Make: Operations Excellence

Deliver: Global Logistics

Sales & Operations Planning

The most important activity in the end-to-end supply chain is to avoid stock-outs and over-stocks. Both outcomes are the worst enemies in any company as they affect directly the cash flow.

To overcome these scenarios is critical to minimize the risk of them therefore a master Sales&Ops Planning must be executed in time and with all the value chain data.

With SCE S&Ops Methodology these are the tasks to be covered:

  • Demand Planning
  • Product Lifecycle Management
  • Capacity Planning
  • Supply Planning
  • Inventory Planning
  • Sales & Operation Planning

Strategic Procurement

On today’s fast-changing nature of the global supply chain environment, and with a greater expectation from your customers, we need to approach a different Procurement strategy.

The global pandemic has set new rules and transform the way sourcing has to be managed. Shortages of components and unstable production capacity make the Procurement Strategy a core activity to reach the Supply Chain Value Optimization.

With SCE all Procurement Tasks are covered for the best results:

  • Spend Management
  • Product Cost Management
  • Supplier Risk Management
  • Sourcing Optimization
  • Supplier Performance Management
  • Procurement Team Structure

Operations Excellence

Executing a business strategy more effectively and consistently than the competition is called Operational Excellence.

SCE can help you translate strategy to execution, create flexible technology architectures, harness the power of continuous improvement processes and automation, establish organizational change management practices, and build just-right governance models to monitor progress.

All these Operation Excellence tasks are covered by SCE:

  • Labor Efficiency
  • Footprint Design & Implementation
  • Yield & Quality Optimization
  • Asset Utilization
  • Manufacturing Optimization
  • Metrics & Control

Global Logistics

The pandemic has exposed the fragility of global logictics and revealed the immense costs of disruptions to those chains. There is an urgent need to revisit old assumptions grounded in supply chain reliability and stability.

While growth has been surging month-on-month, supplier deliveries have continued to slow. Congestion, difficulties in hiring, capacity challenges, delays, raw material price surges and carrier cost increases are snarling up supply chains, threatening to undermine recovery.

This is how can SCE help to make your chain resilient to all new post-pandemic changes:

  • Fleet Optimization
  • Warehouse Optimization
  • Transport Management
  • Route Optimization
  • Network Optimization
  • Visibility across the chain