SCMO (company)

Supply Chain Management Outsource (also branded as SCMO) is a professional services organization or advisory firm specializing in logistics, transportation, and supply chain management. It is known as a fourth-party logistics provider, or a supply chain consulting firm.

SCMO is a Tier 1 consulting firm, similar to the Big Four auditors but strictly specialized in logistics, transportation, and supply chain management.

According to the organization's website , SCMO has approximately 500 staff at work in 24 countries, including 75 partners and associates, through 32 offices delivering consulting services in logistics, transportation, and supply chain management through its member firms.

Its global headquarters are located in Apia, Samoa.

History

SCMO was founded in 2000 in Hong Kong, and soon headquartered in Apia, Samoa. From one office in Hong Kong in February 2000, it expanded to 6 offices in Asia by 2002. It then expanded both in Europe and in North America and was amounting to 15 offices by 2005. It is now represented globally through 32 offices in 24 countries.

SCMO is one of the pioneer companies involved with fourth-party logistics, which is a new industry currently being developed in complete Blue Ocean Strategy.

Global structure

SCMO is a Partnership, under the Samoa Civil Code whereby each member firm is a separate and independent legal entity. It is structurally built following the model of a modular matrix company.

Name and branding

SCMO was rebranded in early 2009, and its fourth website published accordingly. S.C.M.O. is an acronym for "Supply Chain Management Outsource".

SCMO is a Tier 1 consulting firm, and delivers reports similar to other firms such as McKinsey & Company, Bain & Company, A.T. Kearney, the Boston Consulting Group, and Booz & Company, but strictly specialized in logistics, transportation, and supply chain management. These firms are consistently rated as the most "prestigious" consulting firms.

Services

SCMO member firms offer services of consulting in the following functions, with country-specific variations on their legal implementation:

• Training: Provides multiple training modules specialized in logistics, transportation, and supply chain management.
• Benchmarking: Assists clients by providing benchmarking services allowing them to evaluate their buying performance, and their competitiveness.
• Cost optimization: Gives clients the benefit of optimizing their costs structure, as far as logistics, transportation, and supply chain management is concerned.
• Supply chain audit: Provides supply chain audits in an operational capacity only. Not financial.
• Tender management: Manages tenders for its clients in the fields of logistics, transportation, and supply chain management.
• Interim management: Offers interim managers for variable periods of time in order to build departments, divisions, networks, or operations in logistics, transportation, and supply chain management.
• Logistics reorganization: Helps clients to build or restructure from simple warehouses to advanced logistics platforms.

SCMO also offers other services specialized in the industry of logistics, transportation, and supply chain management, such as studies, marketing, conferences, logistics parks, agency network, mergers & acquisitions, M&A integration, HSEQ compliance, isotank containers, fuel saving solutions, carbon finance solutions, sustainable supply chain, advisory subcontracting, C-TPAT & AEO compliance, development & distribution, representation & delegation, shipping & logistics department, market information & intelligence, systems, operations, software & IT specialized in the industry, customs training & trouble-shooting, procurement & supply chain department, and tailor-made services.

Competitors

SCMO competes most directly with the Big Four auditors, respectively Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, and KPMG in a modest capacity and strictly limited to the industries of logistics, transportation, and supply chain management. It is common for a company to employ SCMO as well as some of these firms, but often for different types of work. For instance, SCMO is often asked to do an operational due diligence of the supply chain of a company, while some of the Big Four auditors is asked to do its financial due diligence.

SCMO competes directly with Accenture as well.

SCMO also occasionally competes with other firms such as McKinsey & Company, Bain & Company, A.T. Kearney, the Boston Consulting Group, and Booz & Company, but less directly. These firms offer a different value proposition, and are considered to be "pure strategy" firms. Similarly to them, SCMO offers studies considering a 360 degres view, which is not only focused on its ability to implement the recommendations it gives, but on all the options available in the market.

Offices

The company organizes its global business into the following regions.

Asia (14)

Chiang Mai, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta (x2), Kuala Lumpur, Manila (x2), Penang, Singapore (x2), Shanghai (x2), Taipei.

Europe (11)

Basel, Budapest, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, London, Marseille, Mulhouse, Paris, Prague, Reykjavik, Vienna.

Americas (3)

Miami, San Francisco, Toronto.

Middle East & Indian Sub-Continent (3)

Chennai, Dubai, Pune.

Pacific (1)

Apia.

See also

• Supply chain consulting
• Freight quality partnerships
• 4PL, fourth-party logistics provider

External links

• SCMO - Official SCMO Website
• GIL - Global Institute of Logistics - SCMO - Group photo at a GIL conference
• The Copenhaguen Communiqué - SCMO - Signatory of the Copenhagen Communiqué
• The Economist Intelligence Unit - SCMO - The Next Generation (The Economist Intelligence Unit)
• GovHK - Marine Department - SCMO - Maritime Consultancy firm recommended by the Government of the Hong Kong SAR

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