From Volatility to Value: Transforming Supply Chain Planning
In a business environment shaped by volatility, complexity, and rapid change, Supply Chain Planning has become a cornerstone of resilience and competitive advantage. Miebach Consulting enables organizations to design and optimize planning processes across demand, supply, and financial dimensions - ensuring agility, efficiency, and alignment from strategy all the way down to execution.
We combine decades of planning and industry expertise with a hands-on consulting approach to create tangible results for our clients.
Whether that be through translating the company strategy to a best-fit operating model for supply chain planning, or during the selection and implementation of advanced planning systems,but also in process coaching, enabling your organization to achieve the next maturity level.
Typical planning challenges we see
We work with clients of various industries and sizes. However, planning-related challenges are often similar:
Business and supply chain environments are more volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous than ever before.
Global markets, expanding supply footprints and diverse portfolios require more sophisticated coordination.
Business and Supply Chain priorities often remain misaligned without a structured reconciliation.
Disconnected demand, supply, and financial planning functions and tactical and operational layers often lead to siloed decision-making.
Continued high planning and decision quality depend on enabling and leveraging workforce capabilities
Benefits
Impacts of well-designed and implemented supply chain planning
Planning, when designed and done right, will have a tremendous positive impact on multiple aspects of your key Supply Chain and Business KPIs.
We have seen our customers making tangible gains on…
- Improving forecast accuracy and demand visibility
- Early identification of capacity bottlenecks
- Fast, more reliable decision making
- Fewer stock-outs and higher customer service levels
- Reducing inventory levels and working capital
- Increasing resource utilization and efficiency
- Decreasing manual workload and firefighting
Capability Insights
The Miebach Difference
How Miebach can help you boost your supply chain planning
At Miebach, we help our clients strengthen planning capabilities across the full spectrum, end-to-end. From strategy to execution, from process to technology.
We help you improve…
- the functional end-to-end core activities, from demand to supply and financial planning
- the alignment and decision layers in between – from Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and S&OP to S&OE alignment.
Each of our services can be delivered independently to address a specific challenge or combined into an end-to-end transformation.
Why Miebach is the trusted partner for your planning transformation
1. Decades of planning expertise
Our planning specialists bring extensive experience from diverse sectors, business models, company sizes, and international contexts
2. End-to-end delivery from strategy to execution
We guide you through your entire transformation journey, from assessment to process and technology implementation
3. Collaborative “one-team” approach
We work side-by-side with your stakeholders, ensuring buy-in and practical solutions.
4. Vendor-agnostic, yet connected
We combine vendor neutrality with strong partnerships in the APS ecosystem, ensuring the best-fit solution for your business needs
Our Tools for your success
Our proven framework
We base our work on a proven methodology where we apply our layered, best-practice planning framework and a six-dimensional Target Operating Model approach to address all relevant aspects of planning.
Assess
A common starting point with our clients is to assess current planning activities and derive actionable improvement priorities. At Miebach, we have developed a customizable Maturity Assessment framework that rates your Supply Chain Planning activities against internal and external benchmarks. Through interactive analysis workshops and interviews, we additionally uncover soft factors and leverage valuable knowledge and improvement ideas already embedded in your organization.
Design
Our design work is characterized by collaboration and iteration. Together with our clients, we create a holistic Planning Target Operating Model that is tailored to business needs and improvement priorities. We define a structured roll-out plan and drive change management, ensuring buy-in from all-stakeholders and implementation readiness.
Implement & Coach
We don’t stop after designing. At Miebach, we continue to work side-by-side with our clients to implement planning. Over multiple planning cycles, our management coaching, as well as hands-on support as part of your implementation team, ensure a successful roll-out.
Digitize
Effective and efficient planning activities require the right systems and data foundation. We support our clients in defining decision-support tooling requirements, selecting the most suitable software vendor, and implementing Advanced Planning Systems (APS). By combining a vendor-agnostic perspective with established connections to leading tech-companies, we ensure that digital tools truly enable the planning processes and deliver tangible business value.
What are you waiting for? Let’s get your supply chain up to speed and fulfill your companies potential! Contact our experts today.