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Business Consulting Services

Talk to the consultants who do more than talk: We work shoulder-to-shoulder with you and your teams to build trust and growth.

Our 100% guarantee of engagement fees based on annualized savings ensures a healthy ROI.

Our goals with you

Problem Solving

When every part of your organization collaborates on saving costs, increasing profit, and freeing up working capital, your company reaches goals that might have seemed unattainable.

Productivity

Lasting improvements in productivity, OTIF delivery, and quality come from examining the entire plan-make-buy-fulfill supply chain for root causes.

Insight

Before you can make data-based decisions, you need trustworthy, timely, standardized, accessible data. You need the visibility that KPIs, metrics, and advanced data analytics provide.

Profit

Do you know your true cost to serve? Does procurement understand and take advantage of market fluctuations? What is your rationalization for make versus buy?

Assessment

Anticipating risks—whether from suppliers, acquisitions, shifts in demand, or natural disasters—requires playbooks, forecasts, and analyses that might be outside your wheelhouse.

Ownership

People accept changes they understand and have some control over. When they are fully part of a change, it not only happens faster, it brings continuous improvement.

How we address the challenges

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Experience

Where do you get business advice you can trust? From business strategy consultants with an average of 25 years of industry experience. They ensure that any change—upstream, midstream, or downstream—benefits your entire organization. They make the risk, capacity, capability, and financial assessments that give you the confidence to go forward.

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Root Cause Analysis

Your business growth depends on resolving root causes, whether asset availability, complexity management, network design, or any other issue. We mine the data for fact-based decisions. Our objectivity enables us to address problems that span functions, divisions, and borders—and gives you fresh insight into your entire supply chain.

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Knowledge Transfer

We work hand-in-hand with your procurement department to give them the ally sourcing, optionality, supplier management, and negotiation skills to meet your goals.

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Due Diligence

You may lack the time and in-house expertise for due diligence. Our data analytics, sustainability, supply chain, private equity, and industry experts fill that gap. They find the right suppliers, partners, and investments to meet your specifications; create value across the deal life-cycle; and keep you competitive.

Industries we serve

Senior industry subject matter experts work alongside our practice experts to deliver EBITDA, cash, resilience and growth improvement initiatives in months, and sustain them for years.

Core Consulting Areas

Our capability and experience

TVO Network & Footprint OpEx Data Analytics SIOP Resilience & Optionality Warehousing & Logistics Sustainability Procurement Due Diligence and M&A Warehousing &Logistics Optimization Supply Chain & OperationsTransformation Sales & OperationsPlanning Supply Chain Resilliance & Optionality Due Dilligence & Post Merger Integration Network Design & Footprint Optimization Sourcing Optimization Sustainability Operations Excellence Data Analytics
Realize Untapped Opportunity

Supply chains and operations interact at every point, from demand planning to last mile delivery.

Through our Total Value Optimization (TVO)TM process, SGS Maine Pointe identifies opportunities for supply chain and operations transformation on several fronts simultaneously: sales, inventory, and operations (SIOP), project management, engineering, and manufacturing. Our data-based approach aligns your end-to-end supply chain with your business requirements and customer demand to improve EBITDA, cash, and growth.

Our collaborative approach opens visibility into the interaction between the supply chain and operations for your entire team, helping them to capture opportunities to improve efficiency, agility, yield, and quality—now and in the future.

Maximize Space & Capacity

With a focus on the end-to-end supply chain, SGS Maine Pointe performs an in-depth analysis of your current network design and footprint, including customer geographies, logistics, and service.

We locate and assess bottlenecks, unveil new financial and market opportunities, and establish a roadmap for improvements across your enterprise.

When a manufacturing company set itself a goal of doubling in size, they turned to us for both footprint and network optimization.

We expanded the company’s physical space, skyrocketed productivity, and confirmed $3M to $5M in incremental profit, placing the company securely on the path to meeting all its strategic goals.

Increase Productivity & Visibility

Every stage of the plan-buy-make-move supply chain presents an opportunity to support your operational excellence.

We collect data that makes that entire relationship visible; improve your capacity planning and growth potential; develop dashboards and aids to monitor and control productivity and resources; and assess the internal and external risks and benefits of every potential change.

To help a technology company that needed to improve margins, quality, and output, we identified areas of improvement and created new structures and methodologies.

Total Value OptimizationTM ensured the company meet all its goals. As their Managing Director of NanoScience stated, “Operational excellence doesn’t stand alone…. The business is only as good as the sum of its parts.”

 

Access the Right Data Right Now

With data analytics, simulation, and supply chain twinning, SGS Maine Pointe makes your end-to-end supply chain visible across every business function.

Based on the data we gain by deploying advanced mining and predictive techniques, we build a digital strategy for supply chain optimization that is future-proof.

We also ensure that your existing technologies deliver consistent, trustworthy, timely data in a form that is easily accessible. 

In one case, several acquisitions had left a transportation industry company with an unwieldy web of technologies, priorities, and strategies. The CEO asked us to help “gain leverage across the end-to-end supply chain and across the company.”

With our help, the company standardized its data, technologies, and strategies around the globe and reached its highest revenue ever.

 

Keep Agile & On Target

To reach a balance between supply and demand requires in-depth knowledge of the entire end-to-end supply chain.

SGS Maine Pointe gains that knowledge through analysis of your company, decades of experience, and the ability to wield the latest tools and practices for forecasting, sourcing, scheduling, inventory, and delivery.

We provide the information, tools, and methodology you need to meet your financial targets through sales and operations planning.

For a client in the transportation information industry, we turned around ineffective supplier selection; reduced global procurement spend by over 10%; defined the new product introduction (NPI) playbook; increased collaboration across sales, inventory, operations, and planning; and improved EBITDA a whopping 32%.

Reduce Risk & Drive Savings

SGS Maine Pointe assesses the geopolitical, environmental, financial, and operational risks affecting your end-to-end supply chain.

Then we conduct a supplier risk assessment and evaluate their capacity to meet your goals.

We create supply chain optionality—an optimized balance of nearshore, onshore, and offshore sources—to give your plan-buy-make-move supply chain the agility it needs to handle disruptions.

We deepen your supplier relationships and provide the tools to leverage those relationships to control costs.

A client in the home goods industry asked us to examine the company’s entire procurement process.

The CEO was impressed by the way we challenged both the company’s procurement team and the suppliers “to think creatively.” SGS-Maine Pointe delivered a 10% improvement in EBITDA in just 7 months.

 

 

Move Product On Time, In Full

Every supply chain optimization engagement by SGS Maine Pointe is supported by data analytics, cross-functional alignment, win-win relationships, and a dedication to improving EBITDA, cash flow, and growth.

On that foundation, our Total Value OptimizationTM approach turns around warehousing and logistics operations to improve inventory accuracy, optimize transportation routes, improve customer service, and reduce wasted space, returns, and costs.

A high-end furniture manufacturer asked us for a logistics and warehouse optimization that would not jeopardize their current supplier or customer relations.

We enhanced both relations while obtaining 21% savings across the final mile; reducing indirect labor; identifying a new, ideal location for the distribution center; and achieving a 4:1 ROI for the engagement.

 

Fast Track Integration & Profits

Whenever you add or exit from acquisitions, due diligence beforehand reduces risks, improves win rates, and ensures end-to-end supply chain optimization.

SGS Maine Pointe deepens due diligence to provide to improve win rates, accelerate post-merger integration, maximize the value of divestitures, and let you realize benefits quickly.

Working closely with your executive leadership, we identify and capture revenue, market, and growth opportunities.

A food packaging company worked with us to integrate procurement practices and logistics operations for their multiple acquisitions.

Through Total Value OptimizationTM, they achieved a $10M improvement in EBITDA with potential for $3M additional savings.

With clear data, a simplified supply chain, and a more professional procurement team, they were able to integrate their acquisitions more profitability, faster, and with greater control.

Leverage Supplier Relationships

In every sourcing optimization and procurement engagement, we profile spend and evaluate existing processes and technologies against the market, company goals, and supplier relationships.

We make sure the company’s procurement management operating system is bringing results.

We consolidate the supply chain, leveraging incumbents, and use customized strategic sourcing tools to develop a more competitive supply base.

Our data analytics bring more visibility to the end-to-end supply chain to improve forecasting, collaboration, and cost control.

One CEO summarized SGS Maine Pointe’s success in sourcing optimization this way: “They laid out a road map, they told us what they were going to do, and they delivered.” For a manufacturer of tire and wheel systems, we saved 17% in procurement logistics, 19% in maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO), and improved relationships and negotiations with suppliers.

Link Sustainability to EBITDA & Savings

When sustainability efforts are integrated into a company’s end-to-end supply chain, it becomes an investment in optimization, economic stability, market growth, and compliance.

As implemented by SGS Maine Pointe, our sustainability solutions improve risk management, long-term performance, and relationships to investors, stakeholders, and customers.

We deploy sustainability initiatives to optimize the supply chain from sourcing to last mile delivery. We work with companies to analyze opportunities; establish KPIs and metrics to assess costs and benefits; and align company-wide ESG policies.

Working with a global energy company, we defined and embedded sustainability KPIs and metrics and linked it to a balanced score card and benefits evaluation.

Through these initiatives, the company optimized its supply chain, achieved annualized savings of 20%, reduced fuel use by 28%, and reduced carbon emissions equivalent to 2,173 passenger vehicles taken off the road—with a 7:1 ROI.

Total Value Optimization

Realize Untapped Opportunity

Supply chains and operations interact at every point, from demand planning to last mile delivery.

Through our Total Value Optimization (TVO)TM process, SGS Maine Pointe identifies opportunities for supply chain and operations transformation on several fronts simultaneously: sales, inventory, and operations (SIOP), project management, engineering, and manufacturing. Our data-based approach aligns your end-to-end supply chain with your business requirements and customer demand to improve EBITDA, cash, and growth.

Our collaborative approach opens visibility into the interaction between the supply chain and operations for your entire team, helping them to capture opportunities to improve efficiency, agility, yield, and quality—now and in the future.

Network Design & Footprint Optimization

Maximize Space & Capacity

With a focus on the end-to-end supply chain, SGS Maine Pointe performs an in-depth analysis of your current network design and footprint, including customer geographies, logistics, and service.

We locate and assess bottlenecks, unveil new financial and market opportunities, and establish a roadmap for improvements across your enterprise.

When a manufacturing company set itself a goal of doubling in size, they turned to us for both footprint and network optimization.

We expanded the company’s physical space, skyrocketed productivity, and confirmed $3M to $5M in incremental profit, placing the company securely on the path to meeting all its strategic goals.

OpEx

Increase Productivity & Visibility

Every stage of the plan-buy-make-move supply chain presents an opportunity to support your operational excellence.

We collect data that makes that entire relationship visible; improve your capacity planning and growth potential; develop dashboards and aids to monitor and control productivity and resources; and assess the internal and external risks and benefits of every potential change.

To help a technology company that needed to improve margins, quality, and output, we identified areas of improvement and created new structures and methodologies.

Total Value OptimizationTM ensured the company meet all its goals. As their Managing Director of NanoScience stated, “Operational excellence doesn’t stand alone…. The business is only as good as the sum of its parts.”

 

Data Analytics

Access the Right Data Right Now

With data analytics, simulation, and supply chain twinning, SGS Maine Pointe makes your end-to-end supply chain visible across every business function.

Based on the data we gain by deploying advanced mining and predictive techniques, we build a digital strategy for supply chain optimization that is future-proof.

We also ensure that your existing technologies deliver consistent, trustworthy, timely data in a form that is easily accessible. 

In one case, several acquisitions had left a transportation industry company with an unwieldy web of technologies, priorities, and strategies. The CEO asked us to help “gain leverage across the end-to-end supply chain and across the company.”

With our help, the company standardized its data, technologies, and strategies around the globe and reached its highest revenue ever.

 

Sales & Operations Planning

Keep Agile & On Target

To reach a balance between supply and demand requires in-depth knowledge of the entire end-to-end supply chain.

SGS Maine Pointe gains that knowledge through analysis of your company, decades of experience, and the ability to wield the latest tools and practices for forecasting, sourcing, scheduling, inventory, and delivery.

We provide the information, tools, and methodology you need to meet your financial targets through sales and operations planning.

For a client in the transportation information industry, we turned around ineffective supplier selection; reduced global procurement spend by over 10%; defined the new product introduction (NPI) playbook; increased collaboration across sales, inventory, operations, and planning; and improved EBITDA a whopping 32%.

Supply Chain Resilience & Optionality

Reduce Risk & Drive Savings

SGS Maine Pointe assesses the geopolitical, environmental, financial, and operational risks affecting your end-to-end supply chain.

Then we conduct a supplier risk assessment and evaluate their capacity to meet your goals.

We create supply chain optionality—an optimized balance of nearshore, onshore, and offshore sources—to give your plan-buy-make-move supply chain the agility it needs to handle disruptions.

We deepen your supplier relationships and provide the tools to leverage those relationships to control costs.

A client in the home goods industry asked us to examine the company’s entire procurement process.

The CEO was impressed by the way we challenged both the company’s procurement team and the suppliers “to think creatively.” SGS-Maine Pointe delivered a 10% improvement in EBITDA in just 7 months.

 

 

Warehousing & Logistics Optimization

Move Product On Time, In Full

Every supply chain optimization engagement by SGS Maine Pointe is supported by data analytics, cross-functional alignment, win-win relationships, and a dedication to improving EBITDA, cash flow, and growth.

On that foundation, our Total Value OptimizationTM approach turns around warehousing and logistics operations to improve inventory accuracy, optimize transportation routes, improve customer service, and reduce wasted space, returns, and costs.

A high-end furniture manufacturer asked us for a logistics and warehouse optimization that would not jeopardize their current supplier or customer relations.

We enhanced both relations while obtaining 21% savings across the final mile; reducing indirect labor; identifying a new, ideal location for the distribution center; and achieving a 4:1 ROI for the engagement.

 

Due Diligence & Post Merger Integration

Fast Track Integration & Profits

Whenever you add or exit from acquisitions, due diligence beforehand reduces risks, improves win rates, and ensures end-to-end supply chain optimization.

SGS Maine Pointe deepens due diligence to provide to improve win rates, accelerate post-merger integration, maximize the value of divestitures, and let you realize benefits quickly.

Working closely with your executive leadership, we identify and capture revenue, market, and growth opportunities.

A food packaging company worked with us to integrate procurement practices and logistics operations for their multiple acquisitions.

Through Total Value OptimizationTM, they achieved a $10M improvement in EBITDA with potential for $3M additional savings.

With clear data, a simplified supply chain, and a more professional procurement team, they were able to integrate their acquisitions more profitability, faster, and with greater control.

Sourcing Optimization & Procurement

Leverage Supplier Relationships

In every sourcing optimization and procurement engagement, we profile spend and evaluate existing processes and technologies against the market, company goals, and supplier relationships.

We make sure the company’s procurement management operating system is bringing results.

We consolidate the supply chain, leveraging incumbents, and use customized strategic sourcing tools to develop a more competitive supply base.

Our data analytics bring more visibility to the end-to-end supply chain to improve forecasting, collaboration, and cost control.

One CEO summarized SGS Maine Pointe’s success in sourcing optimization this way: “They laid out a road map, they told us what they were going to do, and they delivered.” For a manufacturer of tire and wheel systems, we saved 17% in procurement logistics, 19% in maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO), and improved relationships and negotiations with suppliers.

Sustainability

Link Sustainability to EBITDA & Savings

When sustainability efforts are integrated into a company’s end-to-end supply chain, it becomes an investment in optimization, economic stability, market growth, and compliance.

As implemented by SGS Maine Pointe, our sustainability solutions improve risk management, long-term performance, and relationships to investors, stakeholders, and customers.

We deploy sustainability initiatives to optimize the supply chain from sourcing to last mile delivery. We work with companies to analyze opportunities; establish KPIs and metrics to assess costs and benefits; and align company-wide ESG policies.

Working with a global energy company, we defined and embedded sustainability KPIs and metrics and linked it to a balanced score card and benefits evaluation.

Through these initiatives, the company optimized its supply chain, achieved annualized savings of 20%, reduced fuel use by 28%, and reduced carbon emissions equivalent to 2,173 passenger vehicles taken off the road—with a 7:1 ROI.

Sustainable change

Your supply chain is capable of delivering compelling economic returns—improvements in your EBITDA, cash flow and growth, with less risk and higher performance. Our global, end-to-end supply chain optimization delivers:

  • Operations excellence
  • Strategic procurement
  • Logistics
  • Data analytics
  • Leader & organization improvement

We achieve this by implementing a uniquely integrated approach from analysis, leadership and organizational alignment through implementation and sustainability. Our goal for clients is to help them implement a synchronized plan-buy-make-move-fulfill supply chain through our unique and accelerated approach called Total Value Optimization (TVO)TM.

We typically engage with executives and their teams across procurement, operational, and logistics functions to drive out inefficiencies for enhanced customer and shareholder value. By embedding our Leadership and Organizational Improvement methodology within our implementation projects, we drive immediate impact and accelerate sustainable operational change.

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What Our Clients Say

Experience the difference

After applying TVO across three corporations, both public and private equity owned, we generated $290M in EBITDA, $310M in cash and growth through improved customer responsiveness. Every company and CEO should consider implementing TVO.

Jim Voss, CEO, Vectra

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