Customer success story

Separation at Scale: Supply Chain Systems Support Across 16 Countries

How a global enterprise maintained supply chain systems continuity during a high-stakes joint venture spin-off by rapidly deploying specialized talent across 16 countries to achieve Day One readiness.

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Impact at a glance

Rapid global contingent workforce delivery across 16 countries. Helping a global enterprise achieve supply chain systems continuity and Day One readiness.

Countries supported across the Americas, EMEA and APAC

20%

Under budget

91%

Hire rate from screened candidates

100%

Retention rate during engagement

$750K

Cost savings

Programme impact: rapid specialized talent delivery, real-time visibility and cost discipline during a high-stakes global transformation.

$17.2BAnnual revenue

~36,000Employees worldwide

$750KCost savings

16Countries supported

20%Under budget

100%Retention rate

The Situation

A leading consumer goods company needed to maintain continuity during a major global transformation.

A leading consumer goods company in the personal care and hygiene industry entered a major global transformation as it prepared to spin off its international business into a new joint venture.

The divestiture required separating core business systems, processes, and operations across dozens of countries while maintaining continuity for the existing enterprise.

North America was designated as the global coordination hub for this effort. Central teams were responsible for supporting system separation, testing, and readiness across regions.

This work unfolded under tight regulatory timelines, investor scrutiny, and operational risk.

To ensure the new joint venture could operate independently on Day One, the company needed rapid access to specialized talent to support supply-chain systems testing and validation at scale.

Global coordination hub

North America

North America was designated as the global coordination hub, with central teams supporting system separation, testing and readiness across regions.

Global coverage

16 countries

The company needed specialized talent to support supply-chain systems testing and validation at scale across the Americas, EMEA and APAC.

The Challenge

The company faced a convergence of constraints that made execution especially difficult.

The request for support arrived just before the holiday period, with the expectation that resources would be fully onboarded and operational in early January. The work required sourcing and coordinating talent across 16 countries, while internal teams were already managing broader transformation activities. Failure to execute cleanly risked delaying the spin-off, introducing system errors, and undermining confidence in the transformation itself.

Compressed timelines

The request for support arrived just before the holiday period, with resources expected to be fully onboarded and operational in early January, despite global PTO and limited internal availability.

Global scale and complexity

The work required sourcing and coordinating talent across 16 countries spanning the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, each with different labor laws, onboarding requirements, and time zones.

Internal capacity limits

Existing teams did not have the bandwidth to manage high-volume recruiting, screening, and coordination while also overseeing broader transformation activities.

Cost pressure and scrutiny

Benchmarks from external consulting firms were significantly higher, creating pressure to deliver a more cost-effective solution without sacrificing quality, continuity, or speed.

The Solution

A rapid, scalable contingent workforce solution to support global supply-chain systems separation and testing.

The company partnered with Guidant Global to deliver a rapid, scalable contingent workforce solution to support global supply-chain systems separation and testing. Guidant Global operated as an execution partner embedded in the transformation effort.

01 Rapid global talent delivery +

Recruiting began in the last week of November, with contractors screened, onboarded, and ready to start by the first and second weeks of January, despite holiday disruptions.

02 Centralized screening and coordination +

Guidant Global conducted first-round candidate screening to reduce the load on the company's managers and coordinated complex, multi-country panel interviews when needed.

03 Global supplier and country coverage +

Talent was sourced across 16 countries to ensure the right skills were available where systems work was required.

04 Execution-level governance and visibility +

A centralized MSP PMO model supported the work, with a live SharePoint tracker that provided real-time visibility into roles, candidate status, interviews, offers, and onboarding, accessible to both operational and executive stakeholders.

05 Cost discipline without trade-offs +

Supplier rates were negotiated and managed centrally, enabling the company to secure high-quality talent at a significantly lower cost than traditional consulting alternatives.

Results

The engagement enabled the company to move forward with its systems separation work confidently and on schedule.

Contractors were successfully onboarded across all required regions within weeks, all planned start dates were met, and the programme delivered 100% retention during the engagement period. Final delivery costs came in well below external consulting benchmarks and under the approved budget, while stakeholders gained consistent, real-time visibility into progress, reducing operational risk and leadership uncertainty.

Countries supported across the Americas, EMEA and APAC

20%

Under budget

91%

Hire rate from screened candidates

100%

Retention rate during engagement

$750K

Cost savings

Global readiness

Contractors were successfully onboarded across all required regions within weeks, with all planned start dates met despite holiday and time-zone constraints.

Cost-effective delivery

Final delivery costs came in well below external consulting benchmarks and under the approved budget, delivering cost discipline without sacrificing quality, continuity or speed.

Real-time visibility

Stakeholders gained consistent, real-time visibility into progress, reducing operational risk and leadership uncertainty throughout the engagement.

Beyond the immediate outcomes, the success of this project shifted internal perception of Guidant Global, from a regional staffing provider to a partner capable of executing complex global initiatives under pressure.

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