Centric

Product Development & Management

Drive increased product innovation through collaboration with supply chain partners (customers and suppliers) and internal company functions including marketing, manufacturing, etc. Leveraging Centric’s deep process improvement skills and products industry expertise, we are able to help companies reduce concept to delivery time and speed time to market, but also drive increased innovation into Product Development & Management.

Supply Chain Planning & Optimization

Developing a flexible, responsive, and scalable supply chain network which maximizes service levels while minimizing total delivered costs is critical to most Products companies. Our consultants use their process experience around network design, sales & operations planning and fulfillment to help drive improvements in this area. We also have experience with many of the supply chain management tools in the market to help automate these processes.

Operational Excellence

Manufacturing & distribution are core capabilities for most Products companies whether you have insourced or outsourced these processes. Reducing lead-times / cycle times, producing high quality products, and improving flexibility & responsiveness while controlling / minimizing costs are critical attributes to a world class producer. Centric has deep capabilities around process & operational analysis, lean/six sigma, TQM, and JIT to assist companies in optimizing core operations.

Strategic Sourcing

Sourcing & Procurement is one of the largest cost components of most Products companies, and as such, provides an opportunity to drive significant value to a company. Centric has strong capabilities in Sourcing and Procurement ranging from establishing global procurement organizations, driving cost savings through specific sourcing events, and optimizing sourcing/back office operations.

Finance & Performance Management

Aligning strategic and financial objectives across an organization is a challenge for many Products companies based on the global nature of many firms as well as organizational complexity. Centric has assisted many firms in aligning objectives across an organization, developing balanced scorecard frameworks, and driving out effective measurement & reporting processes. We also recognize that establishing a continuous improvement process and aligning rewards / incentives is critical to capitalizing on increased visibility to company performance.

ERP / Systems Integration

Most Products companies have very complex IT requirements ranging CRM, Supply Chain, ERP and Production Management. Integrating these toolsets and effectively linking them to core processes is critical to achieving benefits and desired results. Centric has focused Technology and ERP practice areas with strong skills around many packaged applications including Oracle, Peoplesoft and SAP. We have also invested a significant amount of time building capability around Business Process Management (BPM) Solutions which are emerging as a key technology to help companies integrate disparate systems and optimize process work flows.

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