Key challenges
Operations and organisation delivery models emphasise efficiency, resilience, control and accountability. Many companies also have the need for agility and flexibility. Most modern organisations today want both. Supply chains have been designed primarily with efficiency in mind. This is important but a supplier base too remote and too consolidated create supply chain resilience problems. This imposes a series of important questions:
- What are the major criteria our supply chain should fulfill?
- How consolidated should our supplier base be?
- Where should suppliers be located?
- Where should we leverage our buying power without increasing risk?
- What is the right organizational setup for supply chain and procurement activities?
- How do we introduce agile principles without losing control and increasing risk?
- What are the required leadership skills to run our company?
- How do we organise for innovation?
- What are the mindsets and behaviours we want to encourage?
- How do we effectively follow up on performance?
- What is the right setup for remote working, incl. leadership style, culture, virtual collaboration technologies?
Our services
At Oleto Associates we have a value-oriented approach to organisational work. We always use the business strategy as a starting point and excel in the use of scenarios and options as the basis for the management team's decisions. We offer a wide range of organisational strategy and development services.
Services include:
- Supply chain review
- Supply chain design
- Operations automation
- Procurement rationalization
- Logistics/supply chain governance design
- Design of digital supply chains
- Operating model design
- Governance design
- Organisational restructuring
- Organisational design, incl. structure, roles and responsibilities
- Organisational implementation, Read more...
- Leadership roles
- Working place policies (e.g., from home or office, incl. virtual technologies), Read more...
- Role of the corporate centre
- Organisational change management
- Redesign of customer services setup
- Training academy for select topics, Read more...
Most relevant for: CEO, COO, Head of Business Unit, Head of HR, Head of business transformation
Examples of our proprietary concepts and methods
- Holistic supply chain problem solving framework
- Supply chain KPI collection
- Methodology for procurement rationalization
- Selective ops benchmarks
- Framework for organisational effectiveness, realignment and capability transformation
- Change management handbook, including both structural design and overcoming the challenges of changing human behaviour
- Stage gate model for effective governance of decisions and clear deliverables, responsibilities and processes
- Programme office management processes and tools suite
- Collection of best practices for agile implementation
- A corporate governance approach for aligning objectives, organisation and initiatives
- Distinctive multi-lever transformation, a holistic transformation approach combining multiple improvement levers such as lean, digitisation and organisational alignment
