SUPPLY CHAIN SCI was just buying locally , locationby-location , and needed someone to centralize that process . My strategy is that of a center-led , retail-based supply chain , and we ’ ve been working on a 10-year transformation initiative in three phases .”
The transformation Luczynski ’ s transformation consists of three shorter road maps : a fiveyear road map , a three-year road map , and finally a two-year road map . He and his team completed the first road map by 2013 , and are currently in year two of the three-year road map , which alone is set to save the company an additional $ 22,200 during the process of streamlining . Luczynski admits that the death care industry of was not something he knew anything about when the role was offered to him , and he turned the recruiter down more than once before taking on the challenge . Eventually , the lure of assisting in the transformation of a large corporation with almost 2,000 locations got the better of him .
“ I didn ’ t know companies like this existed ,” Luczynski explains , “ and the main issue was that the industry was very far behind when it comes to supply chain and procurement maturity .”
Why ? I ask . The answer is simple : “ This sector is 80 percent independently-owned mom and pop businesses , so it ’ s not like Microsoft is knocking on their doors . There ’ s been a massive shift in the last eight years and software companies are now actually looking at our industry thanks to the advent of smartphones and mobile computing , so businesses are starting to invest , but that ’ s all still new . SCI is a large company and yet there are 22,000 funeral homes in the United States and we have about a 16 percent market share . There wasn ’ t a market for large-scale implementation of software in this sector before and that ’ s only just changing .”
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