Situation
Royal IHC, servicing clients worldwide, was facing a situation where ships delivered at their shipyards were sailing out to the open sea to never see them back again, missing out on spare part sales. Obviously, they wanted to take their share of the billion euro aftermarket.
Achievements
Building a customer loyalty-driven strategy
After winning the pitch I developed Royal IHC’s strategic roadmap, with a central role for an e-commerce spare parts portal, where each individual client would have access to the service operations of the ships in their fleet. Functionality to include i.a. automated ordering based average product wear, drill-down into technical drawings of individual ships’ configurations, order tracking & tracing, digital invoicing. On the other hand, this would give Royal IHC insight into individual client behavior and play a more proactive role in servicing their clients even better.
Deploying a worldwide e-commerce spare parts portal
The strategy included a 5-year roadmap, laid down in a project/program initiation document. The plan described the overall program stages and, per stage, the overall functionality to deliver. We also pictured the position of the customer-service spare parts portal in their ICT architecture and how the source systems would need to feed product and other data into the portal and vice versa. We started to design, develop and implement the stage 1 version of the spare parts customer service portal, where we added functionality over time with new projects in the program.
Taking the orchestrator role in their supply chain
In order to accelerate growth in spare part sales, I advised them to consider the orchestrator role in their supply chain. This would position them to take a much larger share of the EUR 8.5 billion market as opposed to their current role. Something the board decided as the new focus after internal deliberations and discussions.
Supply chain orchestrator strategic implementation roadmap
Following the Board’s decision, I developed a supply chain orchestrator implementation roadmap around 5 domains: Customers, Marketing & Sales, Supply Chain Management, Procurement & Legal and ICT & Data. Also highlighting the relationship between the domains and dependencies. Consequently, I translated it into a concrete action plan as the basis for implementation and roll-out.