SUPPLY CHAIN SOLUTIONS
Aside from product costs, selling and overhead expenses, the most controllable costs are managed by your supply chain processes. Inventory planning is at the heart of the matter. It obviously drives cash flow when inventory is held, but it also drives warehouse size, distribution costs, customer satisfaction, etc…
Your strategy and tactics should design the least cost supply chain
that provides your customers their expected levels of service
Your entire team from planners to executives will learn from our best practices that minimize total supply chain costs while maximizing service.
NETWORK OPTIMIZATIONNetwork decisions not only drive fixed cost reduction, but they also ‘fix’ many variable costs!If you don’t think of your network costs as fixed costs, or don’t understand your network’s sensitivity to future energy cost increases, then you would benefit from a network optimization analysis.
INVENTORY OPTIMIZATIONUse to match service plan with inventory investment!If your inventory planning uses the same fixed days-of-supply for all safety stock, or all of your inventory levels are not planned together, you can would benefit from inventory optimization.
OPERATIONS MASTER PLANNINGProvides an objective focus on what steps you need to follow to improve OEE.If you’re using ‘lean’ production systems yet have the symptoms of push planning; off site warehouses, crowded manufacturing and warehouse areas, and long lead times, then you would benefit from our Operations Master Planning process.
SALES & OPERATIONS PLANNINGMake sure everyone is working from the same plan.If you don’t run your business with a cohesive weekly or monthly executive review of sales, inventory and operational performance and plans, then you need to look at implementing a SIOP planning process to synchronize your financial and operational plans.
