CONSULTING FOCUS
SVA's multi-disciplinary approach and deep, practical industry knowledge help clients meet challenges and quickly respond to opportunities.
Operating Effectiveness
Looking across the operating landscape, executives see more data, more regulation, more competition and more cost. Growth is harder to achieve, R&D investment is often inadequate and high risk, and legacy IT systems may not be able to adapt to such a dynamic environment.
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SVA works with you to determine how you can best define the operating model that helps your business deliver on its strategy, examine that model to see if it supports strategic ambitions, improves delivery and reduces costs.
Change Management
Changes in processes, systems and technology require that jobs be structured and performed differently. To enable and sustain lasting change, rigorous attention to a formal change management effort is integral to any significant project a company undertakes
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SVA can help equip your company to drive and sustain change.
Process Automation
SVA helps to transform existing processes and information systems into new and improved business capabilities. We help you respond quickly to business and customer needs through software that emphasizes human intelligence and embraces disruptive technologies
Warehouse Effectiveness
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Warehouse Effectiveness has a profound impact on customer satisfaction. Companies with a Direct to Consumer fulfillment channel are at a higher risk from a single negative social media post.
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SVA works with you to determine and implement the best operating model and supporting technology to; improve delivery, reduce costs and maintain a high level of customer satisfaction.
Information Technology
In today’s world, IT must advance the business, not just support it. IT is expected to add value by improving business performance, by accelerating time to market, by opening new markets and facilitating mergers and acquisitions – all while keeping a sharp eye on costs and quality.
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At SVA, we not only help the IT organization run a more efficient business unit, we help the business derive greater value from IT. We do this by providing IT organizations the insights and capabilities they need to balance the introduction of new, innovative solutions while continuing to maintain ongoing operations in line with cost and quality expectations.
Outsourcing
A poorly chosen outsourcing strategy can have a devastating impact on service delivery, quality and costs – and become a chronic problem. The choices are complex. A well-chosen strategy a few years ago may no longer be producing benefits. So how do you get it right?
Let SVA's experience help validate outsourcing strategies, understand baseline costs, build business cases for change, align stakeholders, evaluate options, and provide guidance through vendor selection and the transition process.
​Supply Chain
Supply chain improvements are a key focus for companies looking to improve financial results through cost reductions, gross margin enhancement and working capital velocity.
Manufacturing and services companies face a common challenge: how to design, manage, and improve operations and extended supply chains that are vital to their goal of producing innovative products and services and delivering them effectively to customers. Companies must do this against a backdrop of an ever-changing technological, economic and regulatory landscape.
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SVA’s Supply Chain services will assist you with the full range of process, technology and people change levers essential to building a durable competitive advantage.