ie Smart Solutions has significant experience within the supply chain area. There are currently five main streams to the consulting services we offer clients:
Supply Chain Analysis and Re-engineering
Given the broad scope of supply chain requirements, this is obviously dependent on client needs. ie Smart Solutions has significant experience gained across many industries, and has been involved in both Greenfield site/company development and total re-engineering of existing Client supply chains.
Catalogue and Information Standards
ie Smart Solutions has had vast experience in the development and management of supply catalogues and managing them within Information Standards. Organisations cannot under-estimate the importance of ensuring their catalogues are accurate but are valid within the broader industry within which they operate. Any business that has aspirations of having any sort of inter-operability with other businesses must ensure their catalogue and information structure has accuracy, rigidity, accessibility and integrity.
Business must recognize the importance of this area as a key foundation to all supply chains, and is therefore a pre-requisite in any move to e-business.
Process Mapping
ie Smart Solutions utilises an advanced Process Mapping tool to capture and model a business from end to end. The benefits of this are primarily in ensuring a business fully understands all its processes and how they fit together. It also ensures that businesses processes actually flow and allows analysis of process bottlenecks within a structured model.
The other major benefit of the Advanced Processing Mapping Tool used is that it allows system specifications to be developed that are based on the way a business actually works. This can ensure a business does not make the mistake that many many businesses make by buying a system without fully understanding the processes it is trying to replace or interface with. This should always be done prior to a business committing to buying a new system.
Healthcare Change Management (Primarily Supply Chain related)
ie Smart has significant experience in Change Management across a range of industries. In terms of Healthcare though it has gained tremendous experience through the total re-engineering of a healthcare supply chain. The culture with healthcare is very unique, requiring direct experience and results to be able to manage the many competing priorities within healthcare including clinical needs, financial needs, inter-operability, business needs, and funding needs.
The biggest influence of all these components, and the most critical in terms of managing, is the clinical area. The strategies required to work within this culture can only be learnt from direct experience and results. ie Smart Solutions have both.
ERP Implementation Project Management
ie Smart Solutions have significant direct experience in the implementation of major ERP Systems. This includes experience in operational, functional, system scoping and specification, implementation planning, project managing and rolling systems out.
ie Smart Solutions has had specific implementation experience with the following systems implementations (and operations):
One Off Projects
While our experience tends to draw clients that require end-to-end solutions we are able to offer consulting and/or project management for one off projects. Recent one off projects include:
One off System Specification and Sourcing
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