While many companies like to augment their teams with subject matter expert consultants, we have found that some of our clients like a more “hands-off” approach where Supply Chain Visions plays more of a “coaching” role than in physically developing project deliverables.  As such, we offer Supply Chain Coaching as one of our service offerings.  

Unlike consulting, supply chain coaching takes more of an advisory role in helping you and your team members solve their own supply chain problems.  Your team is responsible for the primary creation of all project deliverables.  Supply Chain Visions will work with your team to help them assess the current state of the supply chain and to build a supply chain vision for the future and support the improvement efforts. 

A typical supply chain coaching project will consist of Assessment, Supply Chain Visioning and Implementation Coaching. .

Coaching is different than consulting in two key ways: 1) The amount of time spent by the consultant actively engaged in creating project “deliverables” is greatly reduced because your team cerates the deliverables, guided through the process by their coach who is a subject matter in expert in the field.  2) Coaching dramatically increases the likelihood that new methods or processes will be explored with the assistance of your coach and that new processes will remain in practice because your employees are intimately involved in the design of any improved approaches and have complete buy-in. 

Companies have utilized coaching for one or all of the typical phases in their supply chain management projects.  For example, one Fortune 50 company has Supply Chain Visions play an active consulting role is process redesign efforts – but then converts to a coaching relationship during implementation. 

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