Supply Chain Peer Groups

• A Benchmarking Success peer group consists of up to 10 non-competing companies from various industries who, through regular face-to-face meetings, participate in the exchange of KPIs and best practice information about supply chain functions and processes and the enabling technologies.
• The Peer Group is an advanced learning program. It educates members about applied supply chain concepts through joint sharing of ideas, concepts and experiences and so is based on examples of application either from within the Peer Group or externally as sourced by Benchmarking Success. The Peer Group is a powerful learning opportunity!
• The diversity of members sought enables a broad based peer group that can benchmark and improve a range of topics from inventory reduction, performance measurement to enabling technologies and customer order fulfilment.
• The objective for Peer Group members is typically to achieve both big step change as well as incremental improvements in supply chain performance. It is also a typically an excellent training and learning ground for developing supply chain management staff who can also attend.

Business Improvement Groups (BIGs)

• The Benchmarking Success (BMS) Peer Groups are known as Business Improvement Groups or BIGs. BMS has and currently facilitates a number of multi-company BIGs as illustrated below. Some of these have been running for over 10 years.
• We are also often called upon to run internal BIGS for large multi-divisional companies such as BHP.
  
• BIGs provide an excellent forum to develop senior executives in their knowledge, application and appreciation of Supply Chain dynamics and ultimately provide a catalyst for business improvement.
• There is identified potential to further develop input structures to drive output improvements.
• Previous BIGs are also listed here:

The BIG Concept

The Objective:

• To develop business improvement opportunities by the sharing and exchanging of knowledge and ideas.

The Scope:

• All key Supply Chain and Logistics processes, from end to end across the businesses.
• Focus on end to end improvement by leveraging/improving key processes and functions.
• Process and productivity benchmarking used as a tool, rather than pure cost benchmarks.

The Format:

• Quarterly one day BIG meetings, hosted by participants in turn.
• Facilitated and arranged by Benchmarking Success.
• Agenda agreed in advance by participants.
• Collaborative work is undertaken between meetings.
• The BIG format is developed to suit the participants, and is designed to ensure a steady progression of :
  • indentifying improvement opportunities
  • quantifying opportunities
  • realising and measuring the value of initiatives
• Each BIG meeting is a mix of
  • member presentation
  • discussions of key issues
  • development of potential solutions
  • agreement on future objectives
  • subject matter expert presentations
• Collaborative work within the group takes place between meetings to maintain the business improvement culture and momentum.

The Investment:

• The cost for participation in each of the BIG Peer Groups meetings is calculated based on an annual subscription basisQuarterly one day BIG meetings, hosted by participants in turn.