SCM & logistics benchmarking 

Benchmarking is often viewed as reviewing or stealing secrets from the competition, in fact its none of the afformentioned. It is a critically important step in a business being able to evaluate not only its competition but the internal business units and how they stack up against best practice and furthermore self evaluation of the journey to strategic desire through breakdown of business data.

Quite often organisations have the data sets within to be able to evaluate and effect a change in strategic direction. However, unlocking the potential with this data is often time consuming and with cross functional business units can pose a challenge within itself.

At TDC we have years of experience in analysising and creating objective reports based on the different data streams. Some of the outputs can relate to  determing the inventory on hand versus the sales, value perceived from customers against service level, pricing and service level against the competition.

Not only is this exercise very useful in gaining a relative position in the market place, but quite often we find the golden nuggest of success already lay within the organisation, they just have yet to be unlocked and through robust data analysis technique, critical review and working in partnership with an organisation we can produce reports to enhance value within the organisation and a helpful foothold for strategic planning.