Supply Chain Planning
When approached properly, optimized planning can deliver a variety of hard and soft benefits throughout the supply chain.
Some of these benefits include improved working capital, increased inventory turns, lower levels of obsolete inventory, less exposure to market changes, increased agility and improved relationships.
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Do you have a higher-than-optimal level of inventory write-offs?
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Are you considering outsourcing or off-shoring manufacturing operations?
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Is your internal manufacturing capacity synchronized with the flow of orders?
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Do you have on-time-delivery challenges?
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Are you making the best use of production capacity?
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Are your efforts to plan for supply and demand more proactive or more reactive?
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How often do you update your sales plans?
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Is insufficient inventory affecting your customer relationships?
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Do you have access to the information you need for sales planning, when you need it?
Develop an agile, adaptable, and aligned supply chain.
Effective planning involves aligning the entire process—ensuring that multiple organizations and internal departments are all on the same page with respect to demand, new and existing product offerings, manufacturing capacity and plans, and much more. The combination of advanced decision-support technology tools aligned with business process reengineering techniques such as Lean Six Sigma can transform an organization ability to compete and dominate in its marketplace.
We help manufacturing, distribution, and service organizations address all disciplines of supply chain planning: