Supply Chain Management

Cogent Consulting can support you to ensure a well-managed, visible offsite technology supply-chain – allowing for a strong compliance record, with exposure to risk kept to a minimum.

As well as mitigating risk, effective supply-chain management provides you with an advantage in this competitive industry. Our connections within the offsite industry will help you to effectively tackle risks associated with suppliers through collaborative working to apply common standards required of all contractors and manufacturers. 

Through enhanced collaboration and understanding of your needs, we will help to measure, assess and optimise business performance across the entire supply-chain. We will support the design and implementation of innovative supply-chain solutions that better align resources with mission critical objectives, reduce unproductive complexity, increase investment in strategic imperatives while eliminating non-value added costs and rationalise proposed budgets and resources.

Our support covers:

  • Product/System Identification - utilising our unrivalled knowledge of the offsite manufacturing sector
  • Supplier Assessments - assessment of a potential and current supplier's capability of controlling quality, delivery, quantity, price and all other factors
  • Supplier Audits - verifying current and potential supplier's products or processes compliance with your requirements and industry best practice
  • Procurement Planning - verifying compliance of products and ensuring methods are assigned and the expectations for fulfilment of procurement requirements determined
  • Supply Logistics - planning, implementing and controlling the efficient, effective forward, and reverse flow of construction solutions
  • Continuous Improvement - ongoing support with improving products/systems performance and project contribution

Benefits:

  • Reduced real costs, with margins maintenance
  • Incentive to remove waste from the process
  • Greater certainty of out-turn costs
  • Delivery of better underlying value to the client
  • More repeat business with key clients
  • Greater confidence in longer-term planning