Ankan VCM
In 2016, our Managing Partner had a vision to harness the knowledge, skills and decades of experience by senior leaders of industry, professionals and analysts in the development, evolution and implementation of strategies to maximize the value contribution of supply chains to the bottom line of organizations. As a first step, ANKANVCM was born with the mission to work with businesses to optimize their interactions with suppliers and customers, their internal supply chain processes and technology, and the development of their people, to maximize value and more importantly, sustain and improve on it.
We have the capability to support your business, whether you are dealing with strategic challenges or operational issues, including:
To support your business to maximize its value, we seek to:
In all that we do, we strive for a culture that is founded on the core values of:
We will be clear on our commitments and shall live by those commitments in our dealings with our clients, employees, and other stakeholders
We create value with our clients by working closely as a team and with the clients as a central part of the team
We provide equal access to opportunities and resources to every member of our team and thereby enable them to bring their whole self to work
Our clients are at the centre of everything we do. Their goals and successes drive what we do and how we serve them
We continuously seek innovative and alternative ideas and possibilities to do better and create more value, faster for our clients
Why Choose Us
ANKAN realizes that the needs and challenges differ from one organization to another and does not offer one solution for all businesses. We develop a solution that addresses the specific requirements of each client.
Our approach is to engage with our client’s C-suite, leaders and frontline personnel to fully understand the problems and improvements needed. This is a major milestone that enables the clients decide whether to move forward. It is the phase of preliminary analysis and assessment, problem definition, high-level solution-set/options, and preliminary cost estimating.
Once this milestone is cleared, ANKAN professionals will work with the client personnel to better understand the current situation, benchmark against good practices, further develop the solution options and make recommendations. Our recommendations are always costed, and benefits evaluated, giving our clients an insight into the cost-benefit scenarios.
Once our recommendation(s) is approved, we prefer to work with our clients in the implementation to ensure the realization and sustenance of the value potential. We strongly counsel our clients to take advantage of the competences and experiences of our team during this phase but are willing to play any or no role as the client wishes.
Our Mission
Our Managing Partner, Patrick Etokudo, is a leader in the industry, having worked for more than 25 years in the field of Supply Chain Management (SCM).
With an undergraduate qualification in Mechanical Engineering, Patrick went on to obtain a postgraduate degree in Procurement. He is a Fellow, Supply Chain Management Professional (FSCMP) awarded by Supply Chain Canada, the highest honour in the field. In 2017 he was also awarded Supply Chain Executive of the Year in Alberta.
Patrick had led SCM functions in many organizations, mainly in the energy and heavy industrial sectors. He is widely known and respected for leading transformations that created step changes for many companies. His training and experience as an Industrial Engineer have come in useful in these accomplishments.
Our Development Lead has more than 20 years experience spanning Business Development, Transformation and Supply Chain Management (SCM). She holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and has an innate flair for sales with a strong customer centric bias that allowed her to excel in various capacities in Sales & Marketing. In her role as country manager of one of the largest EMEA distributors for Cisco Systems, she led channel distribution strategy development, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and overseeing sales/growth expansion of the customer base and exceeding sales projections – steadily sustaining market share of over 80% and consequently leading to being awarded “Distributor of the Year”.
Bringing that customer-facing experience to SCM in progressively senior positions working with leading Canadian Fortune 500 Energy companies, she has extensive experience in leadership, strategic sourcing, governance and enablement, management systems and digital transformation. In these positions, she oversaw Master Data Management (MDM) strategy development and implementation as part of ERP transformation; designed and implemented an organization’s first SCM integrated management system, led the development and implementation of SCM corporate policies, processes, and technologies; and the management of key strategic categories where she was responsible for leading value creation initiatives.
She also has demonstrated skills in Change Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Business Process Transformation, Supplier Compliance, Planning, and Sustainability. Outside of her corporate experience, she has also acquired Board Governance and start-up advisory experience.
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Founded in 2016, ANKANVCM (ANKAN, for short) exists to support businesses maximize the value in their supply chains.
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