"Management will go from art to science. Bigger, more complex companies demand new tools to run and manage them. Indeed, improved technology and statistical-control tools have given rise to new management approaches that make even mega-institutions viable.Long gone is the day of the "gut instinct" management style. Today's business leaders are adopting algorithmic decision-making techniques and using highly sophisticated software to run their organizations. Scientific management is moving from a skill that creates competitive advantage to an ante that gives companies the right to play the game".
Ian Davis,
Worldwide Managing Director,
McKinsey & Company, Inc., (Source: Ten Trends to watch in 2006)
SCA Overview
The Need
Demanding customers, unpredictable markets, increasingly fierce competition and often less manpower and resources to tackle these challenges - This is the reality in which companies big and small operate today. Organizations expend its most valuable resources not in assimilating valuable information to assess viable business options and reduce risk with the best available integrated solution, but rather in collecting information, creating independent analytical frameworks (often un-auditable) to assemble a very limited “directional” picture.
Through a combination of this “directional picture” and “gut-feel” and “experience-base” they cobble together a “consensus”. This is an area where inefficiencies are great, and often choices are not correct and therefore significant value is often forfeited by the business.
Understanding the nature of your costs and how they are likely to behave with the changing business situations is necessary to make the best tradeoffs between available opportunities and prioritize them correctly based on the efforts, risks and payoffs to use the company’s skilled resources efficiently.
The Genesis
SCA Technologies was conceived to address these needs. Since its inception in 1997, SCA’s technology has worked with companies that have supply chains that source, manufacture and distribute goods globally to address these types of issues successfully.
SCA's goal is to provide a solution that incorporates a framework that enables business managers to uncover opportunities that traditional strategic approaches would normally overlook. Our solutions enable Managers to identify and implement sound investment analysis and operations strategies to reduce total system costs and enhance system performance.
