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Your Supply Chain Network is the key to achieving your strategic goals.

How do you ensure your manufacturing and distribution network can and will deliver the strategic goals of the business? Designed appropriately, your infrastructure can drive competitive advantage, unlocking superior customer service, upgrading the cost base and boosting profitability.

Network design can also be daunting: simply due to the level of investment and longevity of the decisions whenever a major re-design is undertaken, especially in the face of the inevitable pressure to continuously deliver short-term financial performance.

That’s where Sequoia can bring expertise, guidance, analysis, challenge and support to this major board-level decision.

We bring expertise to deliver tailored solutions; ensuring the right sites, performing the right tasks, are in the best locations to support your business growth. Ready to transform your network? We’re here to help.

Major Infrastructure Project - Where Do I Start?

Tackling a major infrastructure project is challenging for any business, especially when this type of review is infrequent, possibly only happening ten years. With Sequoia, you don’t have to navigate this alone. We will guide you through each step, from evaluating future costs and assessing risks to building a business case that’s backed by solid financial analysis.

Sequoia brings over 30 years of expertise in Network Design, with a clear process that is tried and tested. We’ll help you make confident, data-driven decisions that align with your strategic goals. If appropriate, we will evaluate the bold, transformative options (which may seem unnerving to propose) against more moderate ones which take a gradual, phased approach to transforming the business.

Leveraging your Supply chain for Competitive Advantage

Rather than purely focusing on Supply Chain cost efficiency, leading companies must leverage their Supply Chain as a strategic advantage, fully aligned with business goals, for example:

Develop a strategic plan for the lowest delivered cost and highest service Supply Chain infrastructure.

Optimise the Supply Chain to accelerate innovation and market entry

Safeguard business continuity through asset planning

Anticipate and respond to disruptive Supply Chain models

Quantify the opportunities for supply resilience as a response to projected global events

With these objectives in mind, Sequoia have delivered optimised Supply Chain strategies for global and local clients, each tailored to specific priorities, including:

Balancing operational and capital costs to establish the most cost-effective Supply Chain infrastructure for the long-term business strategy.

Optimising post-merger networks to ensure an efficient, phased integration of assets.

Determining facility locations by weighing distribution costs, economies of scale, and inventory considerations.

Developing restructuring plans that maximize financial returns.

Our work is backed by comprehensive financial evaluations, including IRR and NPV analysis, with integrated risk assessments to ensure well-informed decision-making.

We also work alongside leading businesses and Supply Chain thinkers and incorporate these possible future step changes in retail, manufacturing and distribution Supply Chain environments into our approaches. This provides the stimulus for clients to think beyond the here and now, ensuring their decisions are taken against a backdrop of possible future innovations.

With these objectives in mind, Sequoia have delivered optimised Supply Chain strategies for global and local clients, each tailored to specific priorities, including:

Balancing operational and capital costs to establish the most cost-effective Supply Chain infrastructure for the long-term business strategy.

Optimising post-merger networks to ensure an efficient, phased integration of assets.

Determining facility locations by weighing distribution costs, economies of scale, and inventory considerations.

Developing restructuring plans that maximize financial returns.

Our work is backed by comprehensive financial evaluations, including IRR and NPV analysis, with integrated risk assessments to ensure well-informed decision-making.

We also work alongside leading businesses and Supply Chain thinkers and incorporate these possible future step changes in retail, manufacturing and distribution Supply Chain environments into our approaches. This provides the stimulus for clients to think beyond the here and now, ensuring their decisions are taken against a backdrop of possible future innovations.

With these objectives in mind, Sequoia have delivered optimised Supply Chain strategies for global and local clients, each tailored to specific priorities, including:

Balancing operational and capital costs to establish the most cost-effective Supply Chain infrastructure for the long-term business strategy.

Optimising post-merger networks to ensure an efficient, phased integration of assets.

Determining facility locations by weighing distribution costs, economies of scale, and inventory considerations.

Developing restructuring plans that maximise financial returns.

Our work is backed by comprehensive financial evaluations, including IRR and NPV analysis, with integrated risk assessments to ensure well-informed decision-making.

We also work alongside leading businesses and Supply Chain thinkers and incorporate these possible future step changes in retail, manufacturing and distribution Supply Chain environments into our approaches. This provides the stimulus for clients to think beyond the here and now, ensuring their decisions are taken against a backdrop of possible future innovations.

Our Approach

Most often we work alongside a client providing a Network Design service, engaging with stakeholders and evaluating options through to providing inputs to the final business case for the chosen investment route.

Supply Chain Network Design as a Service

Sequoia can provide network design optimisation as-a-service - where we define, create, evaluate and communicate the model outputs to your stakeholders.

Framing the question

Model Design and Development

Data Collection and Cleansing

Analysis and Solution Refinement

Communication with Key Stakeholders

Bringing 25 years of experience of understanding business challenges and translating into a robust digital twin.

Designing a flexible model to allow you to test many scenarios and adapt to changing business priorities.

Working with your data team to extract quality data using a robust and repeatable process.

Validate and interpret the model outputs - what does this mean to your business? What key decisions need to be made?

Create a communication plan and build a strong narrative to convey key learnings to non-specialists.

The Sequoia team act as the key interface with your organisation and co-ordinate data and knowledge inputs as well as stakeholder feedback and rework. TEST

Operations

Finance

Supply Chain

Customer Service

IT / Data

The result? A structured, clear process that identifies the best opportunities for the business to follow, with essential answers to questions about risk and return and incorporating financial evaluation to ensure sound infrastructure decisions.

The Sequoia team act as the key interface with your organisation and co-ordinate data and knowledge inputs as well as stakeholder feedback and rework.

The Sequoia team act as the key interface with your organisation and co-ordinate data and knowledge inputs as well as stakeholder feedback and rework.

The result? A structured, clear process that identifies the best opportunities for the business to follow, with essential answers to questions about risk and return and incorporating financial evaluation to ensure sound infrastructure decisions.