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ALICOG is a consulting firm specialized in Supply Chain and SAP S/4HANA. The fundamental difference: you work directly with senior experts with over 20 years of field experience — not with a junior discovering your sector on your budget.

ALICOG works with industrial companies across:

• Manufacturing
• Food & Beverage
• Automotive & Suppliers
• Pharmaceutical & Cosmetics
• Distribution & Logistics
• Consumer Goods

Every ALICOG engagement follows 4 steps:

• Diagnose — analysis of your business challenges
• Design — tailored solutions co-built with your teams
• Transform — deployment with change management
• Monitor & improve — results measurement and continuous optimization

We always start with an honest diagnostic. If your situation does not call for our intervention, we tell you.

ALICOG works with SMEs, mid-size companies and large enterprises. Size is not the determining criterion — what matters is the complexity of the challenges and the genuine will to transform.

• You send your request via the contact form
• An ALICOG expert responds personally within 24 business hours
• A 30-minute call is scheduled
• If conditions are met, a tailored proposal is submitted

The first conversation is free and non-binding.

ALICOG covers:

• PP (Production Planning) — MRP, MPS, capacity management
• MM (Materials Management) — procurement, inventory
• SD (Sales & Distribution) — orders, deliveries
• QM (Quality Management) — traceability, quality control
• WM/EWM (Warehouse Management)
• FI/CO — operational management accounting

Yes, this is one of our priority areas. ALICOG can intervene at every stage: as-is analysis, migration strategy (Greenfield, Brownfield, Selective), process redesign, configuration, testing and go-live. Our approach: migration is the perfect opportunity to do BPR.

Standard maintenance for SAP ECC 6.0 ends in 2027. The ideal time to trigger your project is now — S/4HANA projects take an average of 12 to 24 months. ALICOG recommends starting with an as-is audit (3 to 4 weeks) to assess the real complexity.

Absolutely. Many of our engagements focus on optimizing existing SAP systems: MRP/MPS reparametrization, master data cleanup, PP/MM/SD flow optimization, KPI improvement. A poorly configured system generates significant losses — often less costly to fix than to endure.

Yes. SAP IBP (Integrated Business Planning) is SAP's cloud solution for S&OP, Demand Planning and Supply Planning. ALICOG supports its evaluation, implementation and optimization, ensuring business processes are well defined before configuring the tool.

Your company would benefit from S&OP if:

• Insufficient service level despite significant inventory
• Siloed decisions between sales, production and procurement
• Unreliable sales forecasts used for production planning
• Frequent stockouts on some products and excess on others
• No monthly integrated meeting across all functions

The 5 fundamental KPIs:

• OTIF (On-Time In-Full) — target >95%
• Fill Rate — immediate service level, target >98%
• Inventory Turnover — efficiency of tied-up capital
• Forecast Accuracy — forecast precision, target >80%
• Supplier OTD — supplier punctuality, target >95%

BPR (Business Process Reengineering) is a radical redesign of key processes — unlike continuous improvement (Lean, Kaizen) which optimizes the existing. It should be triggered when costs are out of control despite efforts, when processes are structurally siloed, or during an SAP S/4HANA migration.

A MES (Manufacturing Execution System) ensures real-time tracking and control of shop floor production. Key functions:

• Real-time OEE monitoring (availability, performance, quality)
• Manufacturing order management and resource allocation
• Lot traceability and operational quality control
• Machine data collection (IoT, SCADA)
• Real data feedback to SAP PP

Yes. ALICOG can provide post go-live support in the form of ongoing support, continuous training or KPI monitoring. The goal is for your teams to be autonomous at the end of the engagement — not to create dependency on us.

ALICOG works primarily on fixed-fee engagements (fixed price for a defined scope) or daily rate. Fees are determined after the initial diagnostic, based on complexity and expected deliverables. Contact us for a tailored proposal.

We will tell you clearly. ALICOG does not take on engagements where our expertise is not the best fit. This honesty is at the core of our approach. A failed engagement serves neither the client nor ALICOG.