Reduce tariff exposure, mitigate complex supply chain risk and improve cost performance, when it really matters.
Accelerate identification of your tariff exposure: Our cutting-edge platform ingests data from multiple sources to develop a foundational model in order to calculate tariff burdens and simulate alternative scenarios to inform your decisions.
How it works
GTO assesses a company’s import profile and operational data, along with the most up to date customs intelligence to quantify the impact of tariffs across the entire value chain, helping develop effective mitigation strategies, including:
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Manufacturing Facility Optimization (MFO)
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First Sale programs
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Duty re-engineering
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Leveraging Foreign-Trade Zones
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Strategic Sourcing to identify and evaluate best cost product options
Using custom built models of your end-to-end supply chain costs and resilience, GTO factors in both current and expected tariffs. To stay agile in a shifting trade landscape, it enables rapid upstream and downstream evaluations, preparing businesses to adjust volumes quickly and efficiently.
Businesses today face a steady stream of disruptions, including fast-evolving customer expectations, rapid technological advancement, changing trade regulations, and complex geopolitical landscapes. Rising costs and a rapidly changing tariff landscape require organizations to achieve savings without impacting business continuity.
How can business leaders balance the competing demands to manage costs while ensuring stable supplies and minimizing risk? With rapidly changing business conditions, harnessing technology to provide insight into these issues is critical.
AlixPartners’ Global Trade Optimizer™ (GTO) is a proprietary big data and analytics platform that helps companies to identify and mitigate global trade, sourcing, and supply-chain costs and risks.
We combine our vast data repositories with machine learning, artificial intelligence, and our institutional knowledge and expertise to identify opportunities for margin expansion and de-risk your global supply base.
GTO™ can offer 5-15% in COGS improvement with additional benefits in lost sales capture and working capital improvements, all within 4-6 months of execution support.
Trade is geopolitical and often volatile, making the terms, attractiveness, and viability of global supply chain sources dynamic.
Key Challenges:
Managing the impact of rapidly evolving tariffs
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What’s the optimal way to reduce my exposure to changing tariffs?
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How can I quickly evaluate my short-term and long-term options as tariffs shift?
Supply base overexposure to global shocks/risks
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What are the risks in my supply base?
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How do I assess and manage them?
Supply Chain diversification, Conundrum of ‘Diversify or nearshore’
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How is global trade shifting?
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How do I unlock diversification or nearshoring potential?
Margin management in inflationary environment
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How can I protect my margin?
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How do I stay ahead of the curve?
Leverage the power of big data and advanced analytics to solve complex global supply chain risk and disruptive challenges.
Our approach is focused on maximizing ROIC for your supply chain while building resiliency, agility and efficiency.
Cost efficiency
Increase margin and reduce COGS and direct material costs by: (a) optimizing supplier base; (b) evaluating make vs. buy options; (c) exploring increased scale and vertical integration for efficiency.
What GTO can do
Model-based analysis of gaps and opportunities leading to key margin and cost actions: (a) negotiate with existing vendors; (b) source new suppliers; and (c) redesign products to take advantage of lower-priced components.
Resiliency
Ability to address and mitigate disruptions in supply chain resulting from geopolitical, climate, financial, ESG, and other risk factors.
What GTO can do
Map the supply chain, identify risk factors across multiple tiers of suppliers, and mitigate risk through communication with existing suppliers to prevent incidents and sourcing new suppliers to build redundancy.
Agility
Redesign the supply chain to address market shifts, logistical challenges, customer expectations, and corporate strategic initiatives.
What GTO can do
Use competitive supply base intelligence to create a target supply chain baseline, and then generate and simulate different options to: (a) reduce cost; (b) optimize deliveries to customers; and (c) take advantage of local, regional, and national incentives.
