Many companies struggle with finding back to a normal. COVID-19 has caused significant revenue losses, orders have been cancelled, margins  and cash are shrinking and cost not been adjusted to the new under-scale yet. Last not least, digitalization is being postponed to focus on managing the crisis. DSI, therefore, has developed a smart restructuring approach that combines both classical turn-around methods and proven digitalization programs. Our clients can just not effort to do things subsequently, they need to restructure now, while digitalising their businesses right away. In line with our value, we commit to skin in the game, e.g. with our consulting-for-equity approach.  

Sustainability is not a choice anymore but a key success factor for most businesses. Also, it is not limited to CO2 emissions neither single steps of the value chain, however, considers multi dimensions and suppliers. DSI`s approach to sustainability is developing green business models based on stretched targets. For example, becoming climate neutral by 2030 can be an inspiring goal and you would be surprised how much is possible already. Sustainability and business impact thus have to become two sides of the same coin. Let`s think about your business and how it becomes greener and smarter, together!

"Smarter means also greener. Social responsibility and business impact will be the same in mid term."

Jan Schreiber, Managing Partner of DSI

Within two to four weeks only, DSI performs a comprehensive stock taking of your digitalization efforts. The scope of the Health Check will be customized and typically includes future business models, the go-to-market, your operations including production, procurement, logistics and services (Finance, HR ..) as well as ongoing projects, IT investments.As outcome, we discuss with you improvement opportunities and a digital roadmap for the way forward. In order to cover most relevant aspects in such limited period of time, we approach pragmatically and work primarily judgment based rather than driven by analyses. The DSI Health Check is a pragmatic approach to bring you digital projects back on track and/or assure quality.

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In a post-Corona time, most business are not yet back to normal when it comes to size and scale. This kind of 90-percent economy creates own challenges in terms of cash positions, down-scaling of capacities without compromising service levels and asks for an optimisation of working capital in terms of payables, receivables as well as inventories along the entire value chain. The DSI is providing its proven WORKING CAPITAL DOWN approach to help companies maintaining liquidity and resilience of their supply chain.

Digitalization is on everybody’s lips. And there are only few things that work without IT. But that does not mean, that just by using latest technology you succeed. Many IT programs suffer from happy engineering and lack business focus. So, how about your S4HANA program? What lessons learned should you consider, what kind of success factors are key, which pitfalls to avoid? DSI reviews your S4HANA program in order to prevent you from sunk investments and facilitate your company to get the most value out of S4HANA. We have done this before and are happy to make your program a business transformation rather than ERP implementation.

What's next for procurement? DSI has developed a use case library to address the digitalization potential in operational procurement. Our Procurement 4.0 program provides cost savings in both source-to-pay as well as strategic sourcing. Special category know how includes IT services, transport & logistics, long tail spend amongst others. 

Please see the latest edition of "Digital Supply Chains - Key to Industry 4.0 and digital business models, leveraging on S4HANA and beyond", published by Routledge: 

This book provides a practical guide to digital supply chain modelling, demonstrating an agile approach to how such models can be applied to any manufacturing company to build competitive advantage, facilitate new business models and drive towards Industry 4.0. The agile approach of the book provides an attractive alternative to the conventional country-by-country deployment of S/4 HANA and other relevant technologies.