Supply Chain Management Consulting Service

The Snohomish County Public Utility District, located in Everett, Washington, is seeking a supply chain management consulting service to analyze its current operations. The agency needs to identify gaps against industry best practices and regulatory requirements across its entire supply chain. The final deliverable must include prioritized remediation roadmaps to address these identified gaps. The scope of work covers planning, sourcing, contracting, logistics, inventory, warehousing, supplier management, risk, and compliance. Specifically, the selected consultant must analyze demand and supply planning, including forecasting, material requirements planning, master production scheduling, stock outage planning, and materials planning for capital and operations. Sourcing and category management analysis must address market intelligence, the RFx process, evaluation, total cost of ownership, and supplier diversity. For supplier management, the project requires evaluating segmentation, onboarding, qualification, performance monitoring, scorecards, and audits. Logistics and warehousing analysis must cover inbound and outbound logistics, emergency material flow, warehouse layout, cycle counting, and maintenance, repair, and operations control. Inventory management assessment must review stocking policies, reorder points, lead times, spares, obsolescence, and criticality classification. The agency also requires an evaluation of risk and compliance, focusing on supply chain risk management, business continuity, supplier cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance. Technology and data systems under review include enterprise resource planning, materials management information systems, eProcurement, contract lifecycle management, supplier portals, data quality, governance, and analytics. Finally, the consultant must assess sustainability and environmental, social, and governance factors, including supplier sustainability, conflict minerals, and environmental and social risk in sourcing decisions. Only onshore organizations based in the United States are eligible to submit proposals for this opportunity. The selected consultant must perform all work onsite at the agency facility in Everett, Washington. The agency has not disclosed a specific budget and is currently looking for proposals to determine the cost. Key dates and specific evaluation criteria are not detailed in the issuing documents.