Once You Have Made Up Your Mind To Engage Outside Supply Chain Consulting Services, How Do You Conduct A Market Scan To Discover The Full Range Of The Choices Available To You?

Following are some of the most common approaches:

Usual Suspects – Some people just put a few well known big international brand names on the list? How could they go wrong with this list. After all, these guys have the reputation, and an implicit nod from the top.

Previous Relationships – Others rely on their existing relationship with their accounting firm or auditing firm, assuming that they also have the cutting edge supply chain transformation know-how. 

Who Shows Up – Still others simply invite firms that show up on their doorsteps to submit a proposal, and choose the most attractive looking proposal out of them. 

Ask For Recommendations – More careful operators ask for recommendations from their more experienced peers. 

All these are good ways of conducting your discovery process; from each of these, we have won projects in the past 21 years of our success. 

However, if you look carefully, something might be missing here. 

A systematic framework to understand who-is-who in the marketplace, and to use the best available supply chain & logistics consultant for your own project, will make your discovery process much more efficient and productive. 

In a crowded marketplace, why is important to use a systematic approach to find the top supply chain consulting firm in Australia for the work you have in mind? 

Because this is not a trivial decision. A lot rides on this decision – you are not only investing a lot of your company’s resources in this consulting project, you are also losing time against your competitors. 

You might get the right consulting firm for your supply chain project based on the any of the above approaches. But, it is just as likely for your team to be driven solely by emotion and make the wrong choice.

On the other hand, if you applied the following quick framework to discover the Business Transformation Expertise (Depth of skills, Breadth of related skills, Quality of Experience), as well as, the Intention (Trustworthiness, Carefulness, Emotional engagement) of each of the firm you will be able to differentiate between all your options a lot better. 

For your next project, try this approach to explicitly differentiate supply chain consulting firms in Australia, and you will be surprised with the clear insights that emerge. It will be like a magical ability to see around the corners. You will not only make a much better choice, but also be able to manage the subsequent projects a lot more efficiently.

You can even adapt this approach to choose between your supply chain software providers, logistics service providers, warehouse contractors and many other competency based services. 

Because, as the famous quantum theorist Heisenberg famously noted, the intentions matter as much as the competence.  This dictum applies especially when it comes to competency based services. 

The graphic below, from our book, ‘Unchain Your Corporation‘ depicts the big picture in a holistic manner. The approximate position of each of the contender might vary somewhat, but it will help you analyse your options much better. 

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