Supply Chain Management
Turning the supply chain into a competitive advantage.
We work to ensure that your organisations are more resilient, more efficient and capable of sustaining growth in the long term.
Your challenges
How to build an effective sourcing strategy, qualify and steer suppliers, anticipate non-compliance risks and strengthen resilience: every dependency left unidentified becomes a vulnerability at the first disruption.
Areas of intervention
- Sourcing strategy
- Supplier mapping and qualification
- Maturity and compliance audits
- Securing plans and alternatives
- Crisis management and continuity
- Lean management et excellence opérationnelle
Our approach
A clear method, calibrated to the decision at hand and to the real pace of your organisation.
Frame
Scope, objectives and decision criteria defined with you before any analytical work begins.
Analyse
Gathering, cross-checking and qualifying the relevant data, without superfluous documentation.
Decide
Costed options, associated risks and a reasoned recommendation put to decision.
Deploy
Action plan, milestones and indicators, with support through to operational impact.
What sets our work apart
- A more robust supplier panel
- Reduced exposure to disruption
- Faster, evidence-based sourcing decisions
- Strengthened resilience in the face of crises
Related business cases
Recent engagements drawing on this expertise.
Qualifying manufacturers’ compatibility with aeronautical Defence
For a regional aeronautics cluster, SURFEO assessed companies’ capabilities and maturity to guide their access to the Defence value chain.
Read the case →Structuring the European export development of a motion systems manufacturer
SURFEO conducted a strategic assessment to prepare the European export plan of a manufacturer of motors, actuators and position feedback devices.
Read the case →Structuring access to the US market through FAA Part 145 certification
For a French manufacturer of hydraulic components, SURFEO structured the compliance process to prepare access to the North American market.
Read the case →Let’s discuss your challenge
A first thirty-minute conversation is usually enough to qualify a problem and identify the priority levers.