Supply Chain and Operations Managed Services

What EY can do for you

A decade of disruption has put supply chains and operations under extreme pressure. Enabling business continuity demands that companies urgently transform the supply chain to create end-to-end visibility and build resilience. But they must do so amid greater cost and talent pressures.

EY Supply Chain and Operations Managed Services combines advanced technology, data-driven processes and EY teams’ talent and insights, to create resilient, efficient and sustainable supply ecosystems. 

Our proven framework supports organizations to transform their entire supply chain from:

1. Planning:

Decision-making and operational efficiency are enhanced through advanced planning solutions. These solutions support clients to optimize demand-supply balance, improve inventory distribution, and adopt Integrated Business Planning (IBP)/Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes.

2. Sourcing:

Procurement is streamlined through spend management, enforcing contract compliance, and improving purchase order efficiency. Integrating the entire source-to-pay cycle enables cost-effective and strategic sourcing operations.

3. Making:

For clients in manufacturing, we drive operational excellence and support the adoption of digital manufacturing practices to enhance factory automation and create seamless production processes.

4. Delivering:

Performance of logistics operations, including delivery times, is improved through planning, management, sourcing and execution, while reducing costs.

5. Improving:

Analytics, improvements and risk management streamline supply chain processes. Detailed insights into operations optimize processes, identify bottlenecks and enhance overall supply chain performance.

With greater control and visibility, supply chain leaders are able to turn the function into a strategic enabler that delivers better business outcomes, including:

• Accelerated transformation: Easy-to-integrate solutions lift supply chain burdens, empowering the function to create long-term value and accelerate transformation.
• Cost certainty: Transparent pricing enables organizations to free up capital, increase productivity and progress growth and innovation.
• Enhanced control and consistency: A one-office operating model embeds control, decreasing risk. Leveraging the right locations and sourcing options builds stronger, more agile supply chains.
• Competitive advantage: When EY Supply Chain and Operations Managed Services runs your supply chain ecosystem, leaders are free to take a strategic approach that creates competitive advantage.
• Enabling a data culture for success: Collaboration equips internal teams with the resources and skills needed today, with data-driven processes and skills ensuring continuous improvement.

The role of the supply chain in a successful business will only grow as volatility increases. Supply chain leaders must find a more effective and efficient way to navigate increasingly complex challenges and evolving threats. And they must do so even as they face greater talent shortages, cost pressures and relentless change.

The challenge is not just to protect business continuity through reducing risk and enhancing visibility across an expanding business ecosystem. Organizations must also use data insights and technology, including AI and automation, to build an agile, intelligent supply chain that helps them move at speed and adapt quickly to disruption. This is how the supply chain can create a genuine competitive advantage that drives long-term value.

By combining advanced technology and data capabilities with our deep knowledge across supply chain, risk, tax and beyond, EY Supply Chain and Operations Managed Services supports organizations to build a stronger supply today and create a strategic function fit for the future.