Project Management and Implementation

Project Management and Implementation

Objective delivery in supply chain and logistics development is often a project orientated environment requiring structured and professionally delivered project management.

Project management is a professional discipline within itself, requiring skills in people management, stakeholder engagement, budget control, scheduling and risk mitigation.

The Expert Partners at CGS are highly skilled and experienced in managing logistics and supply chain projects – from the commissioning of new warehouse facilities through to the implementation of S&OP and IBP processes. Our team fully understands, and can manage on our client’s behalf, every stage of project management ensuring that objectives are appropriately planned, organised and controlled.

The Service Elements Outlined below are the five stages to the process and what each one includes. There is no “on-size fits all” but this shows some of the key areas we cover.

Initiation Phase

Health check of existing arrangements and transformation plan assessment.
Are end-state logistics solutions sufficiently well-defined? Equally important, are they understood by the team members?
Is the transformation planned in sufficient detail?
Are appropriately experienced resources in place to manage the necessary changes?
Has a detailed risk assessment of logistics changes been made?

Transformation Planning

Structuring of overall transformation project and workstreams.
Sequencing of operational changes.
Defining key dependencies between workstreams and operational tasks.

Control Processes for Change Management

Assessment of the change management environment and impacts on existing plans.
Stakeholder mapping, communication plans, roles and responsibilities.
Creation of an accompanying change management strategy to ensure success.

Risk Assessment

Is your project based on unclear, constantly expanding amount of work, which takes at least twice as much time and three times as much money as originally was budgeted and finally delivers half of the desired results? In that case appointing an external project and/or program manager can be your solution.

The project/program manager acts as a catalyst to initiate the project and to achieve the desired result, not being disrupted by day-to-day firefighting in the operational organization. CGS ensures that your project is being realized, and that your organization gets from A to Better. We typically begin at the point where others do not expect to succeed.

Identification of transformation risks.
Creation of strategies, plans and actions to eliminate or ameliorate risk factors.
Project management support for operational changes.
Project charter, project tracking, reporting tools & managing issue logs.
Interim operational management, (if required), through transformation through to steady-state.
Chairing formal project reviews and running ‘Lesson learnt workshops’ .
Project management support for IT delivery.
Due diligence of UAT & volume testing plans.
Management of change requests.
Project management & Implementation.