Supply Chain

The Smart Cube specializes in providing customized procurement and supply chain research to both general management consulting firms as well as specialist procurement service providers. Our research capabilities cover all critical supply markets and extend across the globe - from developed western countries to low-cost emerging markets, including China, India, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Africa. In line with our emphasis on providing insight and not simply data, we integrate in-depth primary and secondary research to help our clients' sourcing and supply chain analysis needs.

Spend Analysis

We work closely with consulting and client teams to 'crunch' accounts payable data, analyzing trends and patterns to generate key buying insights, spend consolidation opportunities and inform the strategic sourcing process. Our work encompasses:
  • Spend cube/category tree development
  • Deep dives on specific spend areas e.g. long tail of wrongly/ uncategorized spend data.
  • Compliance assessment - mapping contract vs. usage data

Supply Market Analysis

Our services include:
  • Category specific issue-based research support
  • Global, regional or country specific category supply market analysis
  • Low cost country (LCC) sourcing research and supply analysis
  • Vendor analytics

Supplier RFX

We provide category specific support to execute supplier RFIs and pre-qualification to customised criteria. We also support the RFQ/ RFP process of consulting procurement teams right through the implementation stage i.e. final negotiations with the short-listed suppliers. Our services include:
  • Global, regional or country specific supplier identification to specified criteria
  • LCC sourcing - supplier identification and pre-qualification
  • Supplier intelligence and profiling
  • RFP/ RFQ process management
    • Supplier intelligence and profiling
    • RFP quantitative and qualitative analytical support

Supply Chain Analysis

  • Sector-specific supply chain trends
  • Logistics analysis - inbound/outbound freight trends, pricing analyses, 3PL/4PL analyses
  • Distribution models
  • Customized, topical support e.g. greening of the supply chain
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