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Supply Chain Planning

The Future of Supply Chain Planning: Navigating the Next Decade

By 2030, supply chain planning will be vastly different from today. This rapid evolution is reshaping how organisations plan and manage their supply chains, necessitating the adoption of innovative strategies, advanced skills, and cutting-edge tools to stay ahead.

Deloitte’s Supply Chain Planning team portfolio spans from supply to demand E2E planning tackling clients’ challenges and delivering measurable and impactful results.


Our team do not only project-manage but also operate from day-1, granting experienced on-the ground resources able to make the difference

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External factors as well as internal warnings raise the need for must-do supply chain planning initiatives

In today’s rapidly changing landscape, external factors like increasing tariffs, critical raw material shortages, geopolitical instability and rising competition, combined with internal challenges such as costly material scrapping, organisational restructuring and peak workload spikes make it more urgent than ever implementing strategic supply chain planning initiatives. shipment delays. This is the moment to explore different advanced planning solutions that can mitigate the risk, enhance resilience and optimise performance to avoid disruption across the supply chain

How de we respond

  • Elaborations of different supply scenarios to be endorsed by leadership, with financial and qualitative pros and cons for near shoring operations and critical raw materials
  • Implementation of stock buffers, time buffers and synchronised control points to prevent materials delays from impacting cash generation
  • Analysis of alternative sources of raw materials, semi-finished and finished goods supply
  • Assessments of alternative logistics routings 
  • Management of inventory with clear analytics on shelf life, aging inventory, turn ratio and projected inventory
  • Playbooks and management on how to plan and launch a new product in several markets
  • Stock-piling strategies and policies-based currency fluctuations
  • Introduction of integrated business planning and long-range capacity planning to stay ahead of competition
  • Assessment, design, implementation and hyper care of advanced planning system (APS)
  • Introduction of best-in-class supply chain planning processes:

                1. Sales and Operations Execution

                2. Sales and Operations Planning

                3. Integrated Business Planning

                4. Long Range Capacity Planning

  • Improvements on Demand Planning, leveraging statistical forecasting, segmentation, artificial  intelligence and machine learning
  • Introduction of adequate replenishment strategies and stock policies
  • Review of capacities and capabilities of deliver from critical suppliers and CMOs
  • Introduction of analytics and dashboards for managing with visibility supply and demand
  • Introduction of relevant KPIs – forecast accuracy, plan adherence, OTIF, others
  • Support in creating new supply chain functions and teams with clear roles, responsibilities and escalation paths

How we can help

As you invest in supply chain planning initiatives, it is also critical that you invest in the right team that will help you achieve tangible results and value. Deloitte Supply Chain Planning practice, leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as predictive analytics, AI-driven demand forecasting and scenario-based planning empower your company to navigate complexities.

Our planning models are flexible: they adapt to shifting market dynamics, helping to future-proof your supply chain and ensure continuity and resilience in the face of ever-evolving risks.

Reach out to us to book a 1-hour whiteboard brainstorming session with us or to request our latest papers and points of view on:

  • inventory management
  • supply chain planning transformation
  • capacity planning, or
  • artwork planning.

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