Costiom helps companies to build long term competitive advantage through end-to-end supply chain including sourcing, logistics, warehouse management, manufacturing, quality and co-operation with sales and R&D. We take a comprehensive approach to evaluate all factors that contribute to the company's income statement and balance sheet. We transform supply chain management processes, tools and practices: we develop data analytics and introduce technologies that allow optimization of the entire supply chain.

We start a customer project by assessing the current status of customer’s supply chain. Our quotations contain the supply chain current state summary, actions to build competitive advantage through supply chain and estimated impact on income statement and balance sheet.
Execution scope depends on client preference: at minimum, we provide the change management support for the leaders in the customer organization, but we prefer to work hands on together with the customer to secure visible results in customer financials. We obtain results from quick-win cost savings, but more importantly for long-term growth and value creation.

Through leveraging industrial internet and other digital solutions major competitiveness gaps can be closed and company can achieve major cost-efficient growth. Digital and IoT solutions can completely change the way supply chain is planned and managed. Creating a digital supply chain strategy and the attainable profitability improvement via industrial internet solutions, requires a top-to-bottom approach. Costiom has team members with high-tech product development background as basis for industrial internet know-how. Costiom also has technology partners who are at the forefront of digitalization and industrial internet solution development. Our network of supply chain experts have deep subjective matter expertise on their own areas.

Everyone can achieve quick one-time saving by asking competing bids from several suppliers and choosing the cheapest one. What if you don’t get lower bids anymore or there is only one relevant supplier on the market? Based on our experience, only 20% of supply chain saving opportunities can be addressed with traditional purchasing tools. With Costiom's tools and experienced people you can capture the full 100%.

You can go to the pockets of your owners or bank, but the cheapest source of cash is the working capital tied to your supply chain. Releasing working capital across the supply chain, impacts also on revenue and cost. With Costiom’s Working Capital Optimization, based on expert skills, practices and tools, your company can improve liquidity and the cash conversion cycle.

Fast growing companies face often the paradox of material and inventory costs growing too fast at the same time when they are lacking critical materials and components to secure product supply. With Costiom’s growth enabler tools, based on defining and implementing holistic sourcing, material management and risk management processes across the supply chain, your company can achieve both steep growth AND profitability.

M&A professionals have expertise to evaluate the acquisition target from financial, legal and business opportunity point of view. Costiom brings you in depth understanding of supply chain strengths and weaknesses in your potential target, but also the hidden opportunities and risks. With Costiom’s company and factory audits, based on a comprehensive approach to evaluate all factors, your company can identify gaps, risks, and strengths of supply chain in complying with requirements.

Companies which need people, materials, tools, vehicles, equipment or physical premises to produce their service, often suffer with low asset utilization, long lead-times and people spending more time looking for information, tools and materials than doing value adding work. Easy solution is to build inventories that tie working capital and increase cost. Costiom has solutions to improve productivity by leveraging process development and IoT solutions.