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The Shift Engine: our supply chain improvement method
You have grown, but your processes have not. Everything still runs through you, and money leaks out of the supply chain without anyone knowing exactly where. If that sounds familiar, The Shift Engine is how we fix it.
The Shift Engine is 7th Mile Shift’s method for solving supply chain and logistics problems in mid-sized manufacturers. It moves through 4 gears: Diagnose, Design, Deploy and Drive. We apply it across 7 domains, from organisation structure and KPIs to digitalisation, and it draws on three decades of hands-on supply chain experience.
Assess the current state, gaps and baseline
Build the norms, KPIs and blueprint
Implement solutions and tools
Sustain, keep improving and govern
The 4 gears
We map how material, information and money actually flow today, measure the baseline, and find where cost, delay and working capital are being lost. You get a clear, fact-based picture before anything changes.
We design the target process, the norms and the KPIs that will run it, and a blueprint your team can follow: who does what, with which data, on which system.
We implement alongside your team, not from a slide deck: processes, roles, tools and systems, including our own products AllMileOps and WareIX where they fit.
We set up the review rhythm and governance that keep the gains, so results hold after we step back and improvement continues.
Results from our engagements
- Cut inventory by 32%
- Reduced freight costs by 20%
- Boosted warehouse productivity by 20%
- Improved on-time delivery by 23%
- Delivered 28 digitalisation projects
Applied across 7 domains
The same four gears work in every part of the supply chain. The 7 domains are:
- Org Structure & KPI: clear roles, decision rights and the measures that run the business.
- Inventory Management: the right stock, in the right place, with less working capital.
- Warehouse Management: layout, processes and systems for faster, more accurate operations.
- Procurement: sourcing strategy, supplier management and purchase processes.
- Supply Chain Design: the network, flows and planning model behind your business.
- Digitalisation: systems and data that make the supply chain visible and responsive.
- Logistics & Distribution: transport, dispatch and delivery at lower cost and higher reliability.
Frequently asked questions
Mid-sized manufacturers that have outgrown their processes: growth has added complexity, decisions still depend on a few people, and costs or delays keep appearing without a clear cause.
No. Diagnose shows where the biggest gaps are, and we focus there first. Many engagements start with one or two domains.
It depends on the scope. We agree the timeline and the measures of success at the end of the Diagnose gear, before any implementation starts.
We implement. The Deploy and Drive gears are about putting solutions in place with your team and making sure the results last.
Talk to us about The Shift Engine
Tell us where it hurts most and we will suggest where to start. We reply within one working day.
Shift gears to smarter supply chain management
Call or WhatsApp +91 93440 11267, email care@7thmileshift.com, or visit us at B 21, Phase I, TVS Nagar, Hosur. We work with manufacturers across Hosur, Bengaluru, Chennai, Coimbatore and the rest of India.