Retail Consulting | Wholesale/FMCG Consulting | Technology Consulting
Business Consulting
RT Management provides business improvement services to 2 industries -
- Retail
- Wholesale/FMCG
Our major focus is on -
- Increasing working capital through delivering higher stock turns
- Increasing profitability through margin and promotion management
- Reduction of administration overheads - both cost and time
- Improving the supply chain to compress the timeline and deliver JIT inventory
- Greater focus on the customer and the selling process
- Improve the top line by understanding the categories, their interdependencies and consumer positioning
- Enhancing better business procedures by maximising the value of technology
- System evaluation and selection processes
- System implementations
- Planning and restructuring to support technology and systems
A key service we provide is the tricky situation of REALIGNING business processes and structure to technology. Here we have a very effective process of analysing your technology's functions, workflows and business value and mapping your procedures and department structures to this. The outcome is a maximising of the use of technology and a reduction in wasteful duplication and manual processes.
We keep it simple! 2 groups of 3 processes -
- Identify the opportunity
- Define the $ value of improvement
- Continue to monitor changes benefits
- Plan, cost and resource the change process
- Manage and execute the change
- Create ongoing processes and train, restructure
RT Management specialise in delivering practical and sustainable change by providing relevant advice from a team of industry experienced executives.
You will not get a graduate or high priced MBA as part of our package.
You will get an executive who has retail experience, been through the challenges of managing a retail chain or the key operational streams of a retail company.
We deliver improvements by ensuring our advisors follow clear and focussed processes. Some of the tools and methodologies we use -
- Value stream mapping - where the value adding processes are and which NON VALUE ADDING processes can be removed
- Supply Chain Council's SCOR supply chain measurement and benchmarking process
- OPM3 - reviewing and measuring your company's capability to take on change and the effect a change process might have on the business in the short to medium term - we see this as a Risk Reduction approach
- 30, 60, 100 day structured improvement plans to define tasks, responsibilities and to ensure a trained and informed resource (internal or external) is assigned and progress is monitored - what cannot be measured cannot be accounted for! We ensure all activities have quantified targets which have defined measures
- Category Planning Process (CPP) which ensures category plans and budgets are created based on strong analytics and defines category strengths, dependencies and effects - there is a level of modelling and what if scenario building
- The Weed Analytical Model - where we use the analogy of the world of weeds to analysis your business, components of your business model and the sector's competitive set and drivers
We believe we can assist in most areas of retail, specifically -
RT Management does not pretend to be experts in all areas. Our approach to wholesalers is that we see them as an essential part of the retail chain! Without reliable delivery and quality products, retailers are extremely vulnerable. We assist wholesalers and importers to become the best partners to their retail customers. We help FMCG companies become customer focussed and to concentrate on those areas which will bring greater sell through in the THREE STEPS removed retail point and to optimise their supply chain infrastructure and inventory.
Our key focus is to maximise profit through the effective use of the wholesalers investment in infrastructure, inventory and individuals (people) - we called our approach the TRIPLE I CONCENTRATE!
You will not get a graduate or high priced MBA as part of our package.
We deliver improvements by ensuring our advisors follow clear and focussed processes. Some of the tools and methodologies we use -
- Value stream mapping - where the value adding processes are and which NON VALUE ADDING processes can be removed
- Supply Chain Council's SCOR supply chain measurement and benchmarking process OPM3 - reviewing and measuring your company's capability to take on change and the effect a change process might have on the business in the short to medium term - we see this as a Risk Reduction approach
- 30, 60, 100 day structured improvement plans to define tasks, responsibilities and to ensure a trained and informed resource (internal or external) is assigned and progress is monitored - what cannot be measured cannot be accounted for! We ensure all activities have quantified targets which have defined measures
- Category Planning Process (CPP) which ensures category plans and budgets are created based on strong analytics and defines category strengths, dependencies and effects - there is a level of modelling and what if scenario building
- Analytics of the Service Chain - from Overseas Importing through local supply chain through sales rep and after sales service
Technology consulting is really categorised into 2 components -
- Technical skills and activities which create a stable, monitored and managed technology infrastructure
- Functional and change management activities which utilise the technical environment to deliver business applications which provide the automation and work flows which allow for efficient and profitable business performance
RT Management has competency in the second component - we use our business experience together with our understanding of retail and supply chain technology to assist in aligning process and structure to the functional applications you use.
True to our philosophy, we approach this marriage of process and technology with only one thing in mind - what do we need to do to unlock the benefits of technology to gain business benefit.
In addition, these benefits must be commercially viable - the effort and investment in delivering them must stack up when compared to the financial improvements
- Value stream mapping - where the value adding processes are and which NON VALUE ADDING processes can be removed
- ITIL methodologies and approaches providing a structured and disciplined framework to IT projects
- OPM3 - reviewing and measuring your company's capability to take on change and the effect a change process might have on the business in the short to medium term - we see this as a Risk Reduction approach
- Business to technology realignment - a proven approach to mapping technological infrastructures to business practices and departmental structures and responsibilities
- System Evaluation and Selection - our SES approach defines the business requirements of a system(s), the selection criteria to be used within an auditable and clear evaluation approach and the most effective structure and relationships of the company, various systems vendors and integrators and other support providers. Part of SES is a Business Case Build and preliminary project planning phase
- System and/or system change implementation through strong project management and a fanatical approach to focussing technology on a simple set of defined business drivers