Our Capabilities
We shape our capabilities to meet your needs and are willing to share the risk on delivery from cost out to network redesign.
We make it real through hands on implementation, project and change management, developing business rhythms, frameworks and key performance metrics.
- Identify and quantify improvement opportunities with proposed priorities and timelines
- Cost improvement through waste reduction, efficiency and labour productivity
- Problem solving using best practice from lean, Continuous Improvement or Six Sigma toolkits
- World class factory visuals and data analytics
- Factory flow, line layout and unlocking capacity bottle necks
- Overhead and spend analysis and End to End SKU profitability models
- Product design – changing packaging or product design to improve supply chain efficiency or reduce COGS
- Network modelling across distribution and production
- Optimum stock modelling – balancing working capital and supply performance
- Planning system design – S&OP implementation and capacity modelling to finite scheduling
- Import/Export analysis and network design
We blend engineering expertise with business acumen.
- Development of capital investment business cases, ROI and alternatives from equipment to major investments
- Capital Portfolio Management by balancing your investment needs
- Capital Master planning through feasibility and prioritisation
- Equipment research – ensuring you scan the globe and are ahead of the market
- Capital governance and project controls
- Project delivery –end to end project implementation
- Project reviews – Project progress and contract advice
- Vertical Start Up: Commissioning & Site Acceptance testing of Capital Investment, installing a cross functional team approach from the investment decision onwards
- Engineering and Maintenance Diagnostic and transformation including CMMS Implementations
- Engineering leadership coaching
We use our expertise to deliver training packages that align to top-line goals, drive bottom-line performance, and build capability within your team:
- Blended online/classroom learning with implementation support & coaching on the shopfloor, facilitated face to face, on site or online
- Industry specific modules developed by Pollen & used in a practical hands-on environment
- LSSSP accreditation achieved through online assessment and coursework projects
- Developing confident Frontline leaders by equipping high performing operators with the soft skills & confidence to be tomorrow’s operations leaders
- Strategy Deployment Matrix training to align your organisational goals & people to the right projects and KPIs
- S&OP training to link sales forecasts and customer demand to operational production plans, inventory management & supply strategies
- Executive coaching to develop your vision and leadership skills by our accredited Coach
- Continuous Improvement framework to change the organisational culture from “fire-fighting” to engaged “problem-solvers”
- Bespoke knowledge centre development & access to the Pollen Hive with lifetime free downloads of module tool
We build a parallel reality of your supply chain process using Digital Twin technology. This simulation pushes systems & process to the limit, helping with decision analytics without risking resources, time and cost.
- Emulate the real word – See how changes affect overall network performance to find the optimum solution given real-world constraints
- Product costing – Allocate real direct & indirect costs to each unit produced and understand your true margin
- Commissioning – Monitor the variability generated during the commissioning phases & be ready to mitigate it
- Data Validation – Leverage existing data sets, identify gaps & anomalies to ensure the right information is feeding the Digital Twin
- Real time scheduling and Feasibility assessment – Live connectivity to shopfloor data & ability to optimise current plans / monitor in real time
- Stock tracking and optimisation – Minimise downtime due to lack of stock, optimise stock position and increase speed to deliver.
- KPI Dashboards & 3D Environment – Generate easy to understand Power BI dynamic reports for the entire business to review
We tailor our Procurement services and help our clients when and where they need us:
- Opportunity identification – analysing organisation, processes and systems and categorising spend to identify tangible improvement opportunities
- Procurement operations – optimising processes and source-to-pay systems to enable to purchase and pay for goods and services in a more efficient manner
- Category and supplier management – executing category strategies using market benchmarking and managing supplier risk and performance to meet business needs and generate savings
- Performance Management – visualising the “value” procurement delivers with dashboards that build business buy-in and providing transparency on improvements
- Coaching and on demand training – upskilling your team and sharing external expertise when needed to enhance your procurement capabilities
- Procurement as a Service (PaaS) – running your sourcing events / function
Working together with senior leaders to develop the business vision, execute strategy & define measure of success:
- Develop holistic business and functional strategies
- Define business objectives and goals aligned to the vision
- Deploy the strategy by prioritising tactical projects with tangible actions
- Measure successes & govern progress that add up to the big picture
- Execute what-if-scenarios and manage potential risks
RAPID RESPONSE:
A practical, hands-on approach to short term needs; whether it’s urgently solving a problem or helping you work through a potential opportunity; we have the horsepower and brainpower to keep you moving:
- Conducting operational due diligence
- Supporting delivery of critical project deadlines
- Providing analytical insights
- Leading business diagnostics to identify risks and opportunities
- Facilitating business problem solving workshops
By combining our supply chain expertise and Industrial Advisory specialists from Colliers to provide a full end-to-end industrial advisory service for property including:
- Property Strategy & Insights: Full-service property expertise on tap
- Network Strategy & Optimisation: Using structured methodologies, analytical support & systems to determine facility positioning & unlock capacity
- Location selection: Helping to navigate Operational feasibility, Freight implications, Customer serviceability & Net cost estimate
- Contract and leases: Ensuring the terms are right for you
- Factory & Warehouse design: Streamlining & ensuring your design for your future
- Project Management at all stages: The right resources through concept, build, install, commissioning & vertical start up
- Automation selection: Increasing productivity & reducing resource and footprint requirements within your facility
- Cost-To-Serve Optimisation: Analysing operating costs to determine rationalisation of supply, range or segmentation as well as new capabilities for channel fulfilment & reverse logistics / transition to 3PL
Transforming retail businesses through strategy and optimisation initiatives:
- Supply Chain Strategy – conducting holistic reviews, ensuring solutions support business requirements
- eCommerce & Omni Channel fulfilment – firsthand industry leading experience in fulfilling high volume retail environments
- International Supply Chain – developing solutions for retailers expanding overseas & establishing in new markets
- Import Supply Chain Optimisation – developing end to end solutions to optimise offshore operations and improve domestic outcome
- Cost Savings & Business Efficiency – delivering value through growth support & creating efficiencies that remove waste and reduce cost
- Improved customer proposition – generating innovative solutions to enhance customer experience
- Reverse logistics – developing processes to optimises reverse logistics & reduce margin erosion
- Speed to Market Solutions – supporting retailers in delivering against the ‘want it now culture’ that eCommerce has driven or quick return of capital to support cash flow
Our Capabilities
We shape our capabilities to meet your needs and are willing to share the risk on delivery from cost out to network redesign.
We make it real through hands on implementation, project and change management, developing business rhythms, frameworks and key performance metrics.
- Identify and quantify improvement opportunities with proposed priorities and timelines
- Cost improvement through waste reduction, efficiency and labour productivity
- Problem solving using best practice from lean, Continuous Improvement or Six Sigma toolkits
- World class factory visuals and data analytics
- Factory flow, line layout and unlocking capacity bottle necks
- Overhead and spend analysis and End to End SKU profitability models
- Product design – changing packaging or product design to improve supply chain efficiency or reduce COGS
- Network modelling across distribution and production
- Optimum stock modelling – balancing working capital and supply performance
- Planning system design – S&OP implementation and capacity modelling to finite scheduling
- Import/Export analysis and network design
We blend engineering expertise with business acumen.
- Development of capital investment business cases, ROI and alternatives from equipment to major investments
- Capital Portfolio Management by balancing your investment needs
- Capital Master planning through feasibility and prioritisation
- Equipment research – ensuring you scan the globe and are ahead of the market
- Capital governance and project controls
- Project delivery –end to end project implementation
- Project reviews – Project progress and contract advice
- Vertical Start Up: Commissioning & Site Acceptance testing of Capital Investment, installing a cross functional team approach from the investment decision onwards
- Engineering and Maintenance Diagnostic and transformation including CMMS Implementations
- Engineering leadership coaching
We use our expertise to deliver training packages that align to top-line goals, drive bottom-line performance, and build capability within your team:
- Blended online/classroom learning with implementation support & coaching on the shopfloor, facilitated face to face, on site or online
- Industry specific modules developed by Pollen & used in a practical hands-on environment
- LSSSP accreditation achieved through online assessment and coursework projects
- Developing confident Frontline leaders by equipping high performing operators with the soft skills & confidence to be tomorrow’s operations leaders
- Strategy Deployment Matrix training to align your organisational goals & people to the right projects and KPIs
- S&OP training to link sales forecasts and customer demand to operational production plans, inventory management & supply strategies
- Executive coaching to develop your vision and leadership skills by our accredited Coach
- Continuous Improvement framework to change the organisational culture from “fire-fighting” to engaged “problem-solvers”
- Bespoke knowledge centre development & access to the Pollen Hive with lifetime free downloads of module tool
We build a parallel reality of your supply chain process using Digital Twin technology. This simulation pushes systems & process to the limit, helping with decision analytics without risking resources, time and cost.
- Emulate the real word – See how changes affect overall network performance to find the optimum solution given real-world constraints
- Product costing – Allocate real direct & indirect costs to each unit produced and understand your true margin
- Commissioning – Monitor the variability generated during the commissioning phases & be ready to mitigate it
- Data Validation – Leverage existing data sets, identify gaps & anomalies to ensure the right information is feeding the Digital Twin
- Real time scheduling and Feasibility assessment – Live connectivity to shopfloor data & ability to optimise current plans / monitor in real time
- Stock tracking and optimisation – Minimise downtime due to lack of stock, optimise stock position and increase speed to deliver.
- KPI Dashboards & 3D Environment – Generate easy to understand Power BI dynamic reports for the entire business to review
We tailor our Procurement services and help our clients when and where they need us:
- Opportunity identification – analysing organisation, processes and systems and categorising spend to identify tangible improvement opportunities
- Procurement operations – optimising processes and source-to-pay systems to enable to purchase and pay for goods and services in a more efficient manner
- Category and supplier management – executing category strategies using market benchmarking and managing supplier risk and performance to meet business needs and generate savings
- Performance Management – visualising the “value” procurement delivers with dashboards that build business buy-in and providing transparency on improvements
- Coaching and on demand training – upskilling your team and sharing external expertise when needed to enhance your procurement capabilities
- Procurement as a Service (PaaS) – running your sourcing events / function
Transforming retail businesses through strategy and optimisation initiatives:
- Supply Chain Strategy – conducting holistic reviews, ensuring solutions support business requirements
- eCommerce & Omni Channel fulfilment – firsthand industry leading experience in fulfilling high volume retail environments
- International Supply Chain – developing solutions for retailers expanding overseas & establishing in new markets
- Import Supply Chain Optimisation – developing end to end solutions to optimise offshore operations and improve domestic outcome
- Cost Savings & Business Efficiency – delivering value through growth support & creating efficiencies that remove waste and reduce cost
- Improved customer proposition – generating innovative solutions to enhance customer experience
- Reverse logistics – developing processes to optimises reverse logistics & reduce margin erosion
- Speed to Market Solutions – supporting retailers in delivering against the ‘want it now culture’ that eCommerce has driven or quick return of capital to support cash flow
By combining our supply chain expertise and Industrial Advisory specialists from Colliers to provide a full end-to-end industrial advisory service for property including:
- Property Strategy & Insights: Full-service property expertise on tap
- Network Strategy & Optimisation: Using structured methodologies, analytical support & systems to determine facility positioning & unlock capacity
- Location selection: Helping to navigate Operational feasibility, Freight implications, Customer serviceability & Net cost estimate
- Contract and leases: Ensuring the terms are right for you
- Factory & Warehouse design: Streamlining & ensuring your design for your future
- Project Management at all stages: The right resources through concept, build, install, commissioning & vertical start up
- Automation selection: Increasing productivity & reducing resource and footprint requirements within your facility
- Cost-To-Serve Optimisation: Analysing operating costs to determine rationalisation of supply, range or segmentation as well as new capabilities for channel fulfilment & reverse logistics / transition to 3PL
Working together with senior leaders to develop the business vision, execute strategy & define measure of success:
- Develop holistic business and functional strategies
- Define business objectives and goals aligned to the vision
- Deploy the strategy by prioritising tactical projects with tangible actions
- Measure successes & govern progress that add up to the big picture
- Execute what-if-scenarios and manage potential risks
RAPID RESPONSE:
A practical, hands-on approach to short term needs; whether it’s urgently solving a problem or helping you work through a potential opportunity; we have the horsepower and brainpower to keep you moving:
- Conducting operational due diligence
- Supporting delivery of critical project deadlines
- Providing analytical insights
- Leading business diagnostics to identify risks and opportunities
- Facilitating business problem solving workshops
Colliers
Partnership
People are fast realising supply chains are a critical success factor and a competitive advantage when done well. This is a blend of the physical, ways of working and technology. Most businesses have a footprint that can’t be revolutionised overnight which means focus needs to be on the art of the possible.
Being able to provide a true end to end solution in this space meant extending expertise and advisory services across several areas.
POLLEN X COLLIERS:
We have partnered with Colliers, global leader in real estate services and investment management, for an industry-first collaboration to provide a full end-to-end industrial advisory service.
The new partnership will see the Industrial Advisory team at Colliers working collaboratively with Pollen to maximise the value of supply chains, technology, automation and the resultant property for real estate occupiers.
We have adopted a ‘better together’ model to enable best in class solutions to be provided to our clients from a property, logistics and supply chain advisory basis. Both companies have complementary skillsets and in working together, we are able to provide an upfront design whether it be for a single warehouse or a complete supply chain network.
Colliers’ role will be to provide crucial property information and negotiation skills to secure new facilities or renegotiate existing facilities; delivery of the project can also be completed via Colliers Project Leader team. Pollen’s role will be to provide initial analysis, insights and advice to ensure the best outcome for the clients utilising their expertise across manufacturing, warehousing and logistics.
Our Offering:
We help clients craft end-to-end Supply Chain and Logistic strategies to grow business profitability by delivering better customer service, lowering capital and operating costs. We provide critical planning and implementation expertise to deliver a top performing, resilient, cost-effective network of capabilities and assets.
The relationship creates flexible funding models to support clients get the best support and insights at the right time.
Core Services:
- Property Strategy & Assessments
- Network Strategy & Optimisation
- Location selection
- Contract & leases
- Factory Warehouse design
- Project Management at all stages
- Automation selection
- Cost-To-Serve Optimisation
About Colliers:
Colliers (NASDAQ, TSX: CIGI) is a leading diversified professional services and investment management company. With operations in 67 countries, our more than 15,000 enterprising professionals work collaboratively to provide expert advice to real estate occupiers, owners and investors. For more than 25 years, our experienced leadership with significant insider ownership has delivered compound annual investment returns of almost 20% for shareholders. With annualized revenues of $3.0 billion ($3.3 billion including affiliates) and $40 billion of assets under management, we maximize the potential of property and accelerate the success of our clients and our people.
End to end supply chain approach
Our approach covers every step of the process and how we can offer you the best possible outcome for your challenges along the way.
