EFFICIENT OPERATIONS & SUPPLY CHAINS
AI-enabled, secure, efficient and scalable operations
- Are you sure your supplier’s AI and data operations are secure, unbiased and not infringing on IP?
- Are you fully monetizing the products and services you have bought?
- Do your third party agreements provide you the flexibility to scale and re-align your business quickly and efficiently?
- Do you have the optimal business architecture for your third party relationships?
- Are your P2P processes, controls and tooling tuned to realize your business strategy?
Kepler Cannon has decades of successes in streamlining, modernizing, and accelerating operations and supply chains. Our opportunity assessments and strategies are enabled by underlying data intelligence and AI-enabled intelligence on favorable market conditions. We help, not just uncover opportunities, but realize them most effectively.
Client Successes:
- Captured 80%+ savings and upgraded capability with an incumbent digital platform through TCO assessment, competitive bidding, service consolidation, and service streamlining
- Conducting activity based costing to uncover true profitability of individual business lines
- Uncovered 40-50% waste in third party purchase
- Sourced and set up an efficient and flexible DCaaS as a public Cloud alternative
- Managed AI automation of service operations to reduce costs by ~50%
businesses do not have visibility of their suppliers beyond the first tier
investments in procurement and supply chain tech will go into AI
Perspectives: Efficient Operations & Supply Chains
Data Centers Go Green – Environmental Responsibility
In 2023, worldwide data center capital expenditure reached $260 billion, ~50% greater than the previous decade. The amount of data created and stored globally is expected to reach 175 zettabytes by 2025 — a six-fold increase from 2018.
Demystifying Technology Expenses in Healthcare – Unlocking Business Value
Healthcare systems in the US are facing substantial financial challenges. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, factors such as labor shortages, supply chain interruptions, and macro-economic pressures have all compounded the already mounting cost pressures.…
Is Your SaaS Sprawl Out of Control? – Mitigating the Inevitable
SaaS prices have risen an average of 12% over the past year, and 44% of SaaS licenses go underutilized. This paper offers strategies for managing SaaS costs, including selecting the right SaaS platform and managing vendor relationships.
Transformation Readiness
70% of all planned transformation initiatives fail to deliver tangible business value and 84% of organizations fail at tech transformations in particular.
Reimagining Tech Resourcing
Digital deflation is the most effective way for businesses to manage through today’s environment of high inflation, currency fluctuations, potential recession, and labor shortages. Effective sourcing and third-party technology resource usage is key…
Enterprise Cyber Resilience in a Hybrid World
Cybersecurity incidents are also not only a threat to corporations’ internal operations and bottom line; customer personally identifiable information and financial data is also at serious risk of exposure and misuse, in turn impacting customer…
Digitizing the Back-Office
End-to-end digital transformation is a prerequisite for long term success for financial institutions. To stay competitive, retain customer loyalty, and move the needle from customer experience to customer satisfaction, financial institutions need to…
The Blueprint for Safe Partnerships
Investing in vendor risk management today can secure a future brimming with cost-effective, secure, successful and trust-worthy partnerships.
Future-Proofing Healthcare Delivery
The right telehealth platform is critical to meeting patient expectations and providing the best possible provider, patient and administrator experience. Today patients are demanding more control over their healthcare and want to access care from…
Smart Procurement, Smarter Profits
In a competitive business environment, high-performing CPOs are 18x more likely to fully deploy AI/cognitive capabilities. This typically leads to 92% faster demand forecasting, on average 350 man-hours are saved through automation, and there is a…
Realizing Your Workforce Strategy
Organizations are now recognizing the limitations in their workforce programs, so are making a concerted effort to develop a contingent workforce strategy, consolidate their master vendors/staffing agencies, and extract maximum benefits from the…
Driving Financial Flexibility
In today's uncertain economic climate, achieving financial flexibility and transparency is more critical than ever for navigating challenges successfully. This paper offers insights and strategies for optimizing cost allocation processes to drive…
Mastering Cloud Infrastructure Spend
As enterprises complete their cloud migration journey, an increasing amount of corporate money is being pushed into cloud, and the very nature of the cost-head is shifting from capital expenditure to operating expenditure. Lack of visibility into…