Apply the best practices to all facets of supply chain collaboration.

Whether you are a manufacturer, retailer, wholesaler, original equipment manufacturer, contract manufacturer, or third-party logistics provider, your degree of collaboration with customers and business partners can set the tone for your overall performance.

• Do you have adequate visibility of customer orders and forecasts or of suppliers? Commitments on a daily, monthly, and quarterly basis?
• Are you able to quickly determine a product or service available to promise position (ATP) from an inventory or capacity perspective throughout your different sites, resources and partners.
• Are customer satisfaction levels inconsistent?
• Are you or your suppliers meeting contract obligations and fulfilling the responsibilities of your service level agreements?
• Do you have good relationships with key vendors and suppliers?

Adopt the fundamentals of effective supply chain collaboration.

Effective collaboration within the supply chain encompasses much more than exchanging the right operational data and information. It involves all of the strategies, processes, people, and technologies that define vendor/client, vendor/supplier relationships or site-to-site integration.

There are many fundamental business aspects of effective collaboration that drive productive, mutually beneficial relationships:

• Agreement on financial and operating goals and key performance indicators.
• Coordinated processes for validating plans on a monthly and quarterly basis.
• The ability to share quality, accurate, and appropriate data across systems.
• Increased velocity of demand fulfillment and agility to react to changes.

We help you apply best practices to all facets of supply chain collaboration:

• Internal function-to-function collaboration
• Demand collaboration
• Procurement collaboration
• Logistics collaboration
• VMI collaboration