Transforming Businesses Digitally with CDMA
Empower your business with the latest in commerce and Supply Chain technologies, tailored to your needs. Build a robust enterprise architecture for sustainable growth.
Problems We Solve for Companies with CDMA
Unlocking Digital Transformation for Your Business
Companies experiencing growth inflection points often require a comprehensive overhaul of their operations to propel them to the next stage of success. At CDMA, we specialize in streamlining system footprints and implementing innovative business models such as DTC, BOPIS, or ROPIS. Whether it’s revamping your digital infrastructure or enhancing customer experiences, we’ve got you covered.
Outgrowing Current Systems with CDMA
Are your current systems acting as roadblocks to your business growth? Are data silos inflating your SG&A costs faster than your revenue? Do integration issues hinder your processes, leading to extensive administrative efforts and fragmented customer experiences? CDMA offers solutions to help you overcome these challenges when you're outgrowing your existing systems. We assist in defining your digital roadmap and planning your operations for seamless scalability.
Consolidating System Footprint with CDMA
Is your architecture cluttered with too many systems? Has your system landscape expanded due to acquisitions, resulting in outdated systems and data silos? Unsure if system consolidation will yield tangible business outcomes? CDMA specializes in consolidating your system footprint and devising strategies aligned with your business objectives.
Post-Merger Integration with CDMA
Are acquisitions outpacing your ability to streamline your architecture? Struggling to define your architecture amidst ongoing M&A activity? Is the business model of the newly acquired company inconsistent with your own? CDMA offers expertise in post-merger integration architecture, creating scalable and cohesive frameworks aligned with your acquisition strategy.
Transforming Business Model with CDMA
Exploring new business models but uncertain how to scale your operations and systems accordingly? Does the new business model diverge from your existing processes, requiring a different architecture and strategy? CDMA assists in defining operational capacity and integration architecture consistent with your evolving business model.
Inventory and Supply Chain Optimization with CDMA
Facing significant inventory challenges across channels and grappling with reconciliations through manual journal entries? Struggling with demand forecasting and experiencing overstocking or stockouts? Unsure how to address safety stocks and lead times effectively? CDMA specializes in streamlining planning and driving Supply Chain Transformation initiatives to optimize your inventory management.
Enhancing Adoption of Digital Processes with CDMA
Struggling to foster adoption of current systems within your organization? Do most business users operate outside operational systems, disrupting processes? Are data quality issues impeding operations and hindering KPI achievement due to poor process traceability? ElevatIQ, a part of CDMA, offers change management solutions to increase adoption rates and optimize the utilization of your current systems.
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How Does CDMA Stand Out?
Compared to Other Digital Transformation Consulting Firms?
Unlike other digital transformation consulting firms, CDMA offers a comprehensive approach beyond technical and architectural solutions. CDMA excels in process transformation, reengineering, and post-merger integrations, providing deeper capabilities to meet your evolving needs.
When it comes to initiatives like business model transformations, such as expanding into new channels or revamping existing models, it’s crucial to conduct a comprehensive analysis of your current processes and systems. Unlike many technical consulting firms, CDMA possesses deep expertise in process and transformation, vital for the success of such business transformation endeavors.
While some consulting firms may specialize in specific systems like ERP, WMS, or eCommerce, they often lack the broader perspective needed to develop a holistic enterprise architecture. Moreover, they may carry technical biases that pose potential risks. At CDMA, we offer multi-system expertise, ensuring a well-rounded approach that mitigates such biases and maximizes the value of your technology investments.
Unlike many ERP consulting firms that focus on a limited number of systems, CDMA collaborates closely with over 200 systems, continuously tracking advancements in the market. This expansive approach enables us to identify solutions with the highest return on investment, exhaustively exploring all available possibilities.
Crafting a vendor-agnostic architecture demands a thorough understanding of data flows across various warehouses, channels, processes, and systems. It requires pinpointing the source of truth for shared datasets and designing robust master data governance processes. Few firms possess the depth of expertise in scalable enterprise architecture as CDMA does.
While many web development agencies lack the operational and financial acumen to grasp ERP data models and develop integration flows around them, CDMA excels in this area. By leveraging our ERP data model expertise, we help clients avoid common pitfalls such as overengineering web layers, which can lead to inconsistent customer experiences and longer lead times.
Navigating software licensing, negotiating contracts, and managing change effectively requires a nuanced understanding of transaction and integration flows. Failure to grasp the underlying systems’ licensing models can have repercussions. CDMA brings extensive experience in handling software licensing negotiations, possessing insights into various architectural patterns and licensing models to ensure informed decision-making and mitigate risks effectively.
Our Approach
To Digital Transformation at CDMA
Initiating with a thorough assessment of your current digital transformation platforms and architecture, our methodology adopts a phased approach, prioritizing tasks based on their potential financial returns, including any necessary platform replacements.
Evaluation
Through meticulous primary and secondary research, our assessment delves into your datasets, transactions, and processes, pinpointing the root causes of existing challenges. We develop strategies to address these issues and propose a phased execution plan for implementing recommendations.
Documentation and Process Enhancement
Conducting workshops, we document your business processes and suggest reengineering steps to streamline operations and enhance efficiency. We carefully evaluate the financial and technical risks associated with these reengineering efforts during implementation.
Enterprise Architecture Enhancement
We meticulously document and reengineer your technical systems and processes, clarifying the roles and responsibilities of each system and designing streamlined interaction and data flows to optimize your enterprise architecture.
Prioritization and Business Case Development
Recognizing that enterprise architecture and process reengineering are long-term endeavors, we prioritize efforts and develop a compelling business case, focusing on one priority at a time. This approach mitigates the risk of failure associated with attempting a large-scale transformation all at once.
Implementation
Once stakeholders align on the business case and prioritize transformational efforts, we proceed with iterative design and development sprints. This phase may involve phasing out certain priorities based on ongoing feedback and demonstrations.
Adoption and Fine-Tuning
Following implementation, we gather user feedback to ensure alignment with expectations and assess whether the initiative has helped achieve key performance indicators (KPIs). This iterative phase continues until stakeholders confirm the successful outcomes of the initiative.