Situation

Shane Lamont and Micheal Mallon were engaged by Essential Energy to review and assess its supply chain operations maturity (inventory, warehouse and logistics management) and to develop a future state supply chain strategy and transformation roadmap.

Approach

Shane Lamont was the Project Executive and Micheal Mallon was Program Manager and lead the development of the future-state strategy and transformation roadmap. The approach included:

- Identify of sector drivers for change

- Voice of the Business

- Supply chain operations maturity assessment.

- Supply chain operations gap assessment and gap closure plan

- Supply chain operations future state functional strategy

- Supply chain change readiness assessment.

- Supply chain operations transformation road map

- Supply chain operations transformation program and 9 subprogram outlines (work packages)

Outcome

The program delivered an aspirational strategic position for Essential Energy’s supply chain operations as well as an executable transformation program with accompanying subprogram documentation to enable it to deliver on the strategy as well as be aligned to the new ERP implementation program. 

Situation

Stanwell Corporation is a Queensland Government owned energy company who are a major provider of electricity to Queensland, the National Electricity Market and large energy users throughout Australia. Our team were engaged to establish a best-in-class Procurement and Supply Chain Operating Model to support the organisation in achieving improved asset performance, reliability, safety and cost.

Approach

Shane Lamont led the team in conducting a Procurement and Supply Chain Maturity and Gap Assessment, developed a roadmap for change, and co-design the target state Procurement and Supply Chain Framework. This review included:

- Functional Strategy, Vision and Leadership

- Policy and Governance

- Organisation Design, People and Training

- Category Management and Sourcing to Contract

- Supplier Relationship and Contract Management

- Supply Chain Operations Management

- Risk and Value Management

- Supply Chain management

- Category-by-Category Spend and Opportunity Assessment

- Technology availability and utilisation

Outcome

Our team developed and presented the Procurement and Supply Chain Maturity Assessment report. Developed a future state procurement operating model design and transformation roadmap. Our team also delivered a Procurement and Supply Chain Technology roadmap and a new Procurement and Supply Chain Framework.

Situation

Our Team was initially engaged by Hunter Water to undertake a procurement review and framework update. The documentation included procurement guidelines, tendering procedures and the entire suite. This required the engagement of a wide range of stakeholders to ensure feedback and buy in to changes. 

Approach

From the project initiation our team identified risks, conducted stakeholder analysis and established the governance framework. We then undertook a discovery phase, which enabled us to collect, collate and review the current procurement framework.

We then worked with the business stakeholders to clearly define the requirements, and to design and development future framework to develop the documentation and supporting templates

The scope of work was expanded to develop a contract management framework, providing consistent practices. Our team worked closely with key stakeholders across the business to develop a practical risk-based framework which addressed each stage. 

Outcome

Our team delivered a new suite of procurement documentation, tools and templates as well as establishing contracts framework based on risk and complexity. We provided recommendations on an approach to market for a contract management system to support the implementation of the new framework.