Fortience Consulting Launches SCM-Focused Workshop "re:Quickstart workshop"

Fortience Consulting Co., Ltd. (formerly KUNIE Inc., Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, President and CEO: Shigeki Yamaguchi, hereinafter referred to as Fortience) announced today the launch of its workshop service "re:Quickstart workshop" for SCM (Supply Chain Management) transformation.

This service is a three-day, in-person intensive workshop specializing in SCM challenges. By adopting Fortience's unique transformation methodology, the "Value Structure Re-exploration ModelTM," which consists of four phases: "Challenge Exploration," "Redefinition of Objectives," "Measure Consideration," and "Preparation for Implementation," it enables the formulation of highly effective solutions by questioning not only superficial issues but also the fundamental challenges underlying their premises and backgrounds.

For example, when the theme of the workshop is "SCM Transformation," it allows for the formulation of concrete action plans after organizing fundamental issues such as business processes, decision-making, and inter-organizational collaboration that lie behind superficial problems like excess inventory and stockouts.

Furthermore, by connecting the insights and proposed measures gained in the workshop beyond a one-off learning or discussion to actual business implementation, review, and improvement, it supports customers in achieving self-driven SCM transformation.

Background

Traditionally, many companies' SCM transformations have proceeded with experts presenting the "correct answers" to challenges, which the field then implemented. However, in today's complex environment of fluctuating demand and geopolitical risks, achieving sustainable SCM reform requires a "dialogue space" where the field and related companies bring together their collective wisdom, question their own premises, and create new value, rather than merely following solutions presented by others. On the other hand, if such dialogues are inadequately designed or facilitated, they often remain mere discussions and cannot be effectively applied to actual business.

Fortience has accumulated expertise in manufacturing industry supply chain transformation through its support for business reforms in the SCM and S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning) domains, and has been providing the "Supply Chain DX Innovation Workshop Solution" to support co-creation and self-driven transformation since 2025. Now, by combining the knowledge of this solution, which revitalizes transformation dialogues, with the transformation methodology "Value Structure Re-exploration Model" presented in the book "Supply Chain Ecosystem in the AI Era" (See: Related Information), Fortience has redesigned it as the SCM-specialized systematic method "re:Quickstart workshop" that delves into the premises and structure of SCM to envision transformation from fundamental challenges.

Overview

"re:Quickstart workshop" is a workshop design and facilitation support service for SCM transformation, based on the Value Structure Re-exploration Model. This service goes beyond mere idea generation or training; it uses a perspective for multi-faceted diagnosis of the supply chain and unique diagnostic tools and frameworks to question fixed ideas, enabling participants themselves to become agents of transformation and design concrete action plans that can be initiated after the workshop.

Features

1. Approach Fundamental Challenges Based on the Transformation Methodology "Value Structure Re-exploration ModelTM"

The workshop utilizes the "Value Structure Re-exploration Model," a transformation methodology and framework for Generative SCM (Note 1). By employing this model, which is systematized into four phases: "Challenge Exploration (Shaking Premises, Visualizing Current Position)" → "Redefinition of Objectives (Re-framing with New Coordinates)" → "Measure Consideration (Envisioning the Future)" → "Preparation for Implementation (Action)", it delves step-by-step into the "patterns" and "structures" behind daily supply chain events, and further into the underlying "ways of thinking and premises."

This allows, for example, in the context of SCM transformation challenges, not just to individually address superficial issues like excess inventory, stockouts, and supply-demand mismatches, but to re-examine the decision-making structures and organizational premises to understand why these problems repeatedly occur. By enhancing participants' ability to grasp the root causes of challenges and make judgments in response to changes, it leads to sustainable SCM reform.

2. Create a State Where Discussions Can Lead to Execution, Not Just One-Off Events

This service ensures that discussion content goes beyond mere idea sharing, creating a state where execution can commence by the end of the workshop. Furthermore, Fortience consultants offer separate accompanying support for the execution phase after the workshop. This prevents the "discussion happened, but nothing changed" scenario by clarifying "who will do what by when," and connects it to application in actual business.

Additionally, by utilizing digital tools such as generative AI and the visual collaboration platform "Miro" provided by Miro Inc. and its Japanese subsidiary Miro Japan K.K. for design and facilitation, discussions can be visualized and structured on the spot, resolving discrepancies in understanding early on, and enabling the organization and prioritization of divergent ideas. Dialogues are not confined to personal notes but remain as records and proposed measures that can be utilized after the workshop, smoothly transitioning to subsequent execution support.

3. A Systematized, Reproducible Three-Day Program

This service systematizes the transformation methodology and question design presented in the book "Supply Chain Ecosystem in the AI Era" into a three-day intensive workshop. The target scope can be flexibly set according to the customer's challenges and situation, from the entire supply chain to specific business areas.

Diagram: Workshop Flow

Related Information

Book "Supply Chain Ecosystem in the AI Era": https://www.fortience.com/insight/books/260706/

"Supply Chain DX Innovation Workshop Solution": https://www.fortience.com/solutions/scm/supply-chain-transformation-workshop/

Support in SCM and S&OP Domains by Fortience Consulting

Fortience Consulting supports corporate supply chain transformation based on its knowledge and practical experience in next-generation global SCM construction and S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning). Combining high expertise and deep business understanding with the digital technology and implementation capabilities of the NTT DATA Group and the R&D achievements of NTT, it promotes the creation of mechanisms that can accelerate decision-making and execution even in rapidly changing environments.

In particular, in addition to SCM reform planning/reform workshops, SCM/S&OP maturity diagnosis, and SCM data insights, it provides comprehensive support from concept formulation to implementation, stabilization, and human resource development, including supply chain risk management, SCM-ESG (support for building "responsible human rights supply chains"), supply chain GX, supply chain design/network redesign, Global SCP/S&OP business construction, demand planning advancement, and SCM human resource assessment/training.

Fortience Consulting Co., Ltd.

Fortience Consulting Co., Ltd. is a business consulting firm within the NTT DATA Group. It provides consulting services to a wide range of industries, including global manufacturing and distribution companies, as well as financial, public service, and government/municipal sectors. Professionals with high expertise and deep business understanding draw strategies starting from the ideal future state and achieve results creation in collaboration with customers.

For more information about the company, please visit <https://www.fortience.com>.

Note 1: Generative SCM is a concept that advocates for a shift from traditional SCM, which focuses on cost reduction and efficiency, to SCM that continuously creates value by re-examining objectives, structures, and learning. It views the supply chain not as an object of mechanical optimization, but as an autonomous, learning, and evolving ecosystem through five lenses: "Purpose and Relationships," "People and Organizations," "Operations and AI," "Strategy and Tactics," and "Learning and Growth."

* "Value Structure Re-exploration Model" is a trademark of Fortience Consulting Co., Ltd.

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