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At the Enterprise Excellence Group, we go beyond quick fixes — we help organisations build resilient, high-performing supply chains that create long-term value.
Supply Chain Mastery is our structured supply chain excellence framework, built on decades of experience in Lean, demand-driven planning, and operational alignment. This system empowers Australian businesses to optimise supply chain performance from end to end — enhancing visibility, improving planning accuracy, and delivering consistent results for customers, the environment, and the bottom line.

Why Supply Chain Mastery Matters

Many organisations experience supply chain pain — unreliable delivery, excessive inventory, production bottlenecks, or reactive firefighting.
These issues are often symptoms of disconnected systems, siloed thinking, and lack of end-to-end visibility. Left unresolved, they can result in lost customers, eroded margins, and a stressed-out workforce.

Without a cohesive system to align supply chain planning and execution, organisations often:

  • Overproduce or underdeliver

  • Experience costly downtime or expediting

  • Struggle to adapt to changing customer demand

  • Miss opportunities for circularity and sustainability

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How can we create stability?

By mastering supply chain fundamentals and working to reduce variability, organisations can maintain the right balance of inventory, optimise cash flow and consistently meet customer expectations. This stability also empowers teams to focus on strategic improvement rather than firefighting, creating a healthier, more sustainable operation.

What Makes Our Approach Different

At the Enterprise Excellence Group, we don’t just bring in a model — we build mastery with your people. Our approach is hands-on, practical, and tailored to your operations. We bring deep expertise in Lean, Agile, demand planning, and operational flow — and combine it with a coaching-based approach to help your team own the solution.

Workshop Details

Whether you're in manufacturing, logistics, or service delivery, we help you apply the model in a way that suits your unique products, people, and customers. With a focus on systems thinking, behaviour change, and measurable outcomes, we help create a sustainable path to excellence — not just a short-term fix.

Achieve Supply Chain Mastery with Proven, End-to-End Optimisation

In today’s fast-paced, unpredictable world, traditional supply chain management models are falling short. To succeed, organisations need agile, data-driven, and people-centred supply chains built for resilience, responsiveness, and continuous improvement.

At the Enterprise Excellence Group, in collaboration with supply chain transformation expert Evan Powell, we’ve developed a modern Supply Chain Excellence System tailored for complex and volatile environments.

Our framework equips your team with the practical tools, proven methodologies, and daily routines to optimise supply chain performance across the entire value chain — from demand planning and inventory control to production flow and strategic alignment.

This is not a one-off solution — it’s a capability-building approach designed for long-term supply chain resilience and operational excellence that grows with your business.

Our approach blends deep operational experience with leading-edge thinking in inventory, demand alignment, flow optimisation, and leadership capability. It is built around the following pillars:

  • Strategic Alignment: Understand how inventory and supply chain performance link directly to your broader business and customer goals.

  • Variability Reduction: Learn how reducing variability improves customer satisfaction, reduces cost, and enhances delivery reliability.

  • Practical Analysis: Apply easy-to-use tools for inventory analysis to identify key opportunities — fast.

  • Daily Focus Tools: Implement visual routines and exception-based management to keep the team focused on what matters most.

  • Flow and Demand Levelling: Use strategies to balance demand and supply across product types and demand patterns (Runner, Repeater, Stranger).

  • Sustained Performance: Build team capability through coaching and continuous improvement — embedding a culture of daily excellence.

Our modern system is not about managing parts or products in isolation. It’s about managing flow, performance, and capability across the entire supply chain — from supplier to customer, and back again if needed for circularity.

Supporting Systems and Processes

Achieving supply chain mastery isn’t just about learning best practices in a workshop — it’s about putting those practices into action, embedding them into daily operations, and sustaining them over time. That’s why we offer a comprehensive suite of support services and systems to complement the Supply Chain Mastery workshop.

1. Implementation Roadmap

We provide a clear, step-by-step Supply Chain Mastery Implementation Roadmap, tailored to your organisation. This roadmap helps your team understand what to do, when to do it, and how to stay on course. It includes key milestones, toolkits, and visual performance metrics to keep your improvement efforts visible and on track.

  • Roadmap templates and project tracking tools

  • Role clarity for cross-functional involvement

  • Integration with existing business improvement efforts


2. Leadership Coaching & Strategic Alignment

Sustainable change starts with leadership. We work closely with senior leaders to clarify the organisation’s strategic goals, ensure alignment with the supply chain function, and build visible commitment from the top.

  • Executive alignment sessions

  • Leadership coaching on operational flow and demand alignment

  • Strategic reviews tied to customer, people, and environmental outcomes

This ensures supply chain improvement is seen not just as an operational initiative, but as a strategic enabler of enterprise success.


3. Team Coaching and Capability Building

Our team coaching is hands-on and practical. We work shoulder-to-shoulder with your supply chain, planning, warehouse, and production teams to embed best practices and build internal capability.

  • On-the-floor coaching and simulation exercises

  • Demand analysis, flow design, and stock optimisation support

  • Upskilling your team to lead and sustain improvements independently

This approach helps you build a confident, capable team that owns and drives improvement — not just during the workshop, but every day thereafter.


4. Inventory Transformation Program

For organisations that are resource-constrained or under operational pressure, we offer a hands-on transformation service. We take the lead in delivering your inventory and supply chain optimisation program, working closely with your teams but taking the operational load off your shoulders.

  • Targeted inventory reduction and flow design

  • Strategic stock level setting using Runner-Repeater-Stranger analysis

  • Demand and replenishment system implementation

You gain results fast — while building momentum and confidence internally.


5. Customised Solutions for Complex Environments

Every supply chain is unique. For organisations with highly complex operations — whether due to global sourcing, fluctuating demand, product diversity, or compliance constraints — we provide a tailored solution.

  • Bespoke system design for flow, visibility, and control

  • Scenario modelling based on your unique product and customer mix

  • Integration of Lean, Agile, and technology enablers where appropriate

Together, we design an approach that works for you — not a cookie-cutter model, but a strategic system tailored to your reality and ambition.

Resources

We highly recommend the Lean RFS Book (click on the image below)
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We have these Enterprise Excellence Podcast episodes for you.

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Supply Chain Mastery Workshop

This full-day, results-driven workshop is designed for supply chain professionals, warehouse managers, planners, and anyone involved in the movement of goods and services into, through, and out of an organisation. It is equally suited to manufacturing, mining, and service-based sectors.

Topics Covered:

  • Understanding the purpose of your supply chain (customer, people, planet)

  • Establishing baselines and setting supply chain goals

  • Demand analysis best practices and flow optimisation

  • Applying the Runner-Repeater-Stranger model

  • Condition-based thinking for ongoing improvement

  • Implementing your first value chain pathway

  • Continuous improvement and visual management

Workshop Inclusions:

  • Practical tools and templates

  • Real-world examples and simulations

  • Group coaching and implementation support

  • Access to post-workshop resources

Participants will leave with a clear understanding of the Supply Chain Mastery System, the practical skills to apply it immediately, and the confidence to lead supply chain improvement initiatives in their own organisation.

Cost: $900.00 ex GST

Includes: morning and afternoon tea, lunch, workbook, handouts and 2 hours of post event coaching per organisation.

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