ALM Intelligence: Supply Chain Planning Consulting

In its recent report, ALM Vanguard Supply Chain Planning Consulting, ALM Intelligence found that companies look to consultants to help them align and synchronize their cross-functional planning activities through operating model and process design, but they increasingly seek opportunities to use data — made available by the ongoing digitization of their supply chains — to improve supply chain planning performance.  

A major focus of consultants is helping clients to extract more value from existing ERP-based planning systems, which have proven inflexible in meeting actual business requirements. While the solution can be as simple as Excel spreadsheets, more complex environments benefit from new cloud-based software solutions that scrape and shape data from existing systems and enable a master data set or single source of truth from which the entire organization can make more informed decisions from planning through execution.