Start your organization design journey by launching the Gartner Supply Chain Organizational Design Decision Tool, which identifies the right design based on your supply chain’s strategic intentions and changes in the operating context.
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Gartner Supply Chain Organizational Design Decision Tool
This interactive, self-service supply chain diagnostic helps you:
Map your current design archetype
Specify reporting lines in integrated versus distributed designs.
Distinguish enterprise operations from business-unit-led teams.
Assess all plan, source, make, deliver, and service subfunctions.
Define strategy and operating context
Articulate the goals of the supply chain restructuring.
Determine candidate designs that are fit for purpose.
Match your needs with the optimal supply chain organization model.
Review recommended design options
Receive a supply chain organization archetype recommendation.
Preview functional alignment via an illustrative organogram.
Explore orientations for the recommended archetype.
Key Benefits of the Supply Chain Organizational Design Decision Tool
Future-led analysis avoids cost and risk
Gartner’s supply chain tool requires that leaders examine the supply chain organization’s strategic intentions and changes in the operating context before dedicating resources toward restructuring.
Objective recommendation enables action
Gartner bases your supply chain organization archetype recommendation on our proven management research and robust benchmarks. You can feel confident in the supply chain restructuring decisions you make.
Communication resources secure buy-in
Presentation slides designed for stakeholder and board communications are downloadable from the tool. This saves you time, builds your credibility and helps improve understanding of supply chain across the business.
Features of the Supply Chain Organizational Design Decision Tool
Explore a range of supply chain organizational design models
Our research has uncovered six organization archetypes: Vertical Supply Chain, Shared Service Provider, Strategy Shaper, Orchestrator, Operations Partner and Platform Supply Chain.
Download presentation slides to include in your executive communications
The supply chain tool generates presentation slides that allow you to review and exchange analysis of your current and recommended archetype and potential orientations for the recommended archetype.
Align supply chain organizational design to enterprise business strategy
Through the tool, you can assess opportunities for supply chain capability building, shared services and system/process integration.
Guide next steps in your supply chain organizational design journey
The supply chain tool visualizes and describes your recommended archetype, and provides multiple options for orientations based on functional, geographical and product-based criteria.
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