Upturn Consulting 27, March 2017

Agenda Upturn Overview Supplier Schedule Reporting (SSR) Contact Us challenge approach solution barriers benefits Contact Us AG Business Optimisation. Delivered.

Upturn Overview An innovative company delivering best practice business process engineering. Over 50 years of industry experience in manufacturing, oil and gas, information technology, supply chain, and electronics Core skills in Computing Science, Management Accounting, Project Management and Lean Six Sigma skills in order to achieve optimised and efficient business practices System Architecture and Software development skills to optimise system integration and drive new process and automation opportunities to deliver improvements to any business International experience, including all aspects of project delivery from conception, process design, development, testing, change management, and implementation Mission is to enable significant savings to businesses through systems and process optimisation AG Start up company Business Optimisation. Delivered.

Supplier Schedule Report (SSR) – challenge Case study from an Oil & Gas manufacturing company Changes to committed supplier delivery dates for raw material/components were causing significant disruption to the manufacturing process This resulted in a negative impact to the business with disruption to shop floor production planning additional costs to expedite products to alleviate delay to customers negative impact on overall On Time Delivery Procurement users attempted to manage the disruption via Excel spreadsheets which were bespoke to each user manually managed and therefore time-consuming – approx. 3 days per week per buyer update cycle between buyer and supplier typically 5 working days off-line from ERP system AG Approx 500,000 open PP lines for such products at any time Business Optimisation. Delivered.

SSR – approach Presented concept to local Procurement management Secured local project sponsorship Pilot project developed Regional then Global project sponsorship from Board of Directors Production project rolled out – phased approach Phase 1 global rollout with approximately 50 users Operate and Manage TA Business Optimisation. Delivered.

SSR – Technical Landscape TA Business Optimisation. Delivered.

People ! SSR – barriers The Solution Our most significant challenge. Technical or people ? People ! Management Business Users IT The Solution Persistence Prototyping Promotion AG Persistence – sponsors, business practices, breaking down IT Promotion – core group of willing users Prototyping – demonstrate system capabilities to all 3 levels management, users and IT Management, IT, business Business Optimisation. Delivered.

SSR – benefits Annual business saving > $10M Collaboration at all levels as a result of confidence in data Real time data visible to all stakeholders Suppliers entering data to on-line portal as soon as a change to delivery date is identified Ability to react immediately to changes (removing the 5 day turnaround) Analysis tool to determine failure to original committed dates with full reason analysis for management of suppliers Driving Supplier accountability Time saving to Procurement buyers Annual business saving > $10M AG Business Optimisation. Delivered.

Let’s talk- contact Upturn Consulting Thomas Adams Alison Graham AG 07879 483834 thomas.adams@upturn.consulting 07809 285267 alison.graham@upturn.consulting Business Optimisation. Delivered.

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