Situation
Premium Work Glove brand with strategic priorities to refine their source strategy by reviewing current source base, expanding regional source base and introductions to new potential factory partners; and finding a leader on the ground in Asia to work directly with the factories to run development, quality, and provide direct production updates.
Objective
Build out 3-year source strategy
Identify and align sourcing needs
Factory partner review, introductions
Recruitment & development of candidate list to find Asia leader on ground
Results and Deliverables
Built out 3-Yr Source Strategy to plan supplier invest / divest. Recommended consolidation of source base and diversification of partner countries.
3-Year Strategy
Supplier investment/ divestment plan
5
New Factory Partners
30%
Source Base Consolidation Recommendation
1 New Hire
Operations Manager (Asia Leader On Ground)
5
New Production Countries
New QMS
Introduced Quality Management company to provide support for audits, standards and production tracking