The value chain of your organisation is the collection of activities performed both out-with and within the company itself, which extend from your suppliers supplier through to your end customer or even the consumer. Traditional manufacturing value chain segments include raw material suppliers, manufacturers, distributors and retailers.

Value chain optimisation results from careful analysis and balancing of the specific advantages provided by each of the participants against the transaction costs incurred within their discreet sections of the chain.

Value chains are now more frequently reshaped as a consequence of economic efficiency and the ability to process information, rather than purely by physical product flows. These changes present many new sets of challenges for managers.

RESCU Solutions’ approach to value chain optimisation is grounded in a systems perspective: understanding customer needs, leveraging supplier’s skills and managing to optimise the overall process, not just its discrete pieces.

Initially, we work with our clients to map a comprehensive view of their existing value chain, and then identify their process steps which contain elements of highest cost and complexity or which are duplicated in different segments of the value chain.

RESCU Solutions focuses on aggressively recognising and attacking these costly processes steps and will endeavour to offer individual element re-engineering proposals before designing a new streamlined value chain process.

To find out more about Value Chain optimisation from RESCU Solutions please contact consultancy@rescu-solutions.co.uk