Consultancy  

"Men only accept change when it is a necessity, and they only see necessity during a crisis." Jean Monnet

Frozen investments, falling production... such terms are used frequently during crises to describe the business situation. Development opportunities are available nevertheless. The crisis will end very soon, and a differential will appear between companies who managed to take advantage of the crisis to optimise their processes, and those that did not optimise their processes.

The above is a major reason why the Eurodecision Consulting Department assists customers via a combination of the business expertise of our consultants, and our operational research/ optimisation/ simulation models. These models have been continuously refined for the past 20+ years in order to resolve complex problems.

We use this quantitative consulting approach to offer powerful, innovative solutions in order to facilitate management decisions.

As one of our customers - a company in France's CAC 40 index (the company top 40 French stock market index) - said at the end of a project: "Eurodecision's strength is its ability to listen, and not to attempt to impose a packaged solution."

Over the past few years, our Consulting Department has focused on several business sectors, including the agri-food, automobile, retail, utilities, and transport sectors. It has a proven track record among major corporations such as Air France Cargo, Air Liquide, Danone, Décathlon, EDF, PepsiCo, Renault, Total, Total Gaz, etc. Furthermore, other consultancies (e.g. Metis Consulting, Oliver Wyman and Orga Consultants) often use our expertise to help them successfully deliver their reorganisation projects. And the turnover of the Eurodecision Consulting Department increased by 50% in 2009.

In particular, the wide range of Eurodecision's Consulting Department's expertise allows customers to optimise their entire Supply Chain.

SOME EURODECISION CONSULTANCY PROJECTS:

Designing logistics networks

• optimising warehouse locations through multi-criteria optimisation (for instance, by minimising costs and carbon emissions)
• determination of catchment boundaries
• sensitivity analysis (what is the overall effect of an increase of transport costs, demand, etc?)

Transportation plan optimisation

• creating an optimised transportation plan
• sizing of fleets, platforms, and factories
• reassigning the next day/next week's plan, based on today/this week's actual events (i.e. adapting the plan on day D for D+1 (or week W for W+1))

Inventory/Stock Control optimisation

• determining the optimal procurement frequencies
• sizing the base stock and the safety stock
• sizing warehouses

Strategic sales forecasts

• audit of forecasting requirements, and of a legacy forecasting system
• implementation of a strategic/tactical forecasting tool, plus automatic detection of changes in trend
• modelling and strategic/tactical forecasting of demand

Human resource planning and optimisation

• annual staffing/budgeting: determine the appropriate sizing of permanent and temporary human resources, in terms of cost reductions
• monthly/weekly planning: to cover load fluctuations at minimal cost (via part-time work, vacation/break planning, etc.)

Mapping toolkit

• geocoding and map placement of sites and customers
• representation of flows and catchment areas
• calculation of distances and travel times