Supply Chain Data, IT Systems & Outsourced System Management

In Saturn Projects we understand that in many supply chains have complex IT infrastructures and comprehensive groups of applications used to underpin transactional and planning activities. However, the existence of IT does not guarantee that the supply chain is as effective or efficient, and often IT constraints hold back the business. Saturn projects will help you unlock often fiercely guarded areas of the supply chain to get answers to critical questions when forming a IT strategy for the supply chain.

• Is the IT used within the supply chain fit for purpose?

• Will the IT used within the supply chain expand or change to fit the companies targets over time?

• Is the IT used within the supply chain value for money?

• Are my internal and external IT suppliers charging me market rates?

• Are other costs being buried in IT charges?

• What are the true benefits of in-sourced and out-sourced IT?

• What are the risks of in-sourced and out-sourced IT?

• What options are available to balance or re-balance in-sourced and out-sourced IT?

• Would a change of contract or even a change in IT supplier help supply chain performance?

• Does the IT department lead the supply chain and the wider business or should it follow?

• In what processes is it cheaper to use people rather than IT or IT rather than people?

• How long is it expected that the current IT suppliers will remain suppliers to your company?

• How secure is your data?

• Who should and who should not have access to your data?

• How up to date does your IT really need to be?

• What data is available from the supply chain to provide Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) and Service Level Agreements (SLA's) ?

• How do KPI's and SLA's support the overall business dashboard?

• Does your supply chain gain measurable benefit from its data?

• Do suppliers (within IT and in general) receive meaningful benefit or reward from SLA's?

Also we help you answer questions such as: