How to design a strategic supply chain network

Focus Topic Paper by Camelot Management Consultants

Strategic Network Design helps companies to find and implement ideal structures for a modern supply chain by selecting the design that maximizes profitability and helps to improve the performance at each link in the supply chain. The paper describes how strategic network design ensures a competitive advantage by translating business strategy into the supply chain. Besides that it gives examples for the successful alignment of a company’s network design with its corporate strategy and how a truly strategic network design can be accomplished. A case study shows strategic network design at its best: It compares a European supply chain network before and after strategic re-design – and thereby demonstrates the benefits of the change.

As a thoughts leader for value chain management in process industries, Camelot Management Consultants continuously focuses on the analysis of industry trends and the adaptation of cutting-edge methods from leading research institutes to provide companies with pragmatic, industry-specific approaches to dealing with present challenges. This issue of Camelot’s Innovation Series contains profound insight into how Strategic Network Design affects all levels of supply chain management and provides the framework for successful tactical and operational supply chain processes.

Find the Focus Topic Paper here.