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Traditional supply chain management spans into flows of raw material, work in process and finished goods from an end-2-end perspective. Supply chain management involves not only physical material flow but also information and finance flows, which means that the performance of a supply chain can be measured from at least these three dimensions.
As businesses are becoming more complex and global in nature, there are major operational and strategic challenges:
- Poor on time delivery performance resulting in customer bad will (lost deals, penalties)
- Assets (stocks, factories, competencies) are not invested in the right place at the right time
- Asset utilisation rate is too low and/or these are not flexible and agile enough
- Product houses try to conduct the business and supply chain as usual, even though business is shifting into new territories and overall market conditions are in major transformation
- There are extensive internal gray areas (gaps) between functional organisations (sales & marketing, delivery organisation, product houses), decision making is staggering, leadership is missing and bouncing around
- Product portfolio and life-cycle management requires constant attention in order to see market opportunities and ensure efficient product ramp-ups in selected markets
Significant and lasting performance improvements can only be reached by an integral view and joint optimisation of all functions that belong to the supply chain. These functions are for example sourcing & supply, production, sales & marketing, product portfolio management, demand supply planning, finance, and business development & strategy.
From our experience, improving global inventory optimisation is a multidimensional supply chain effort that involves issues of various scale. It is an all organisation binding action that is built on consistent and sustainable hands on commitment of people. On one hand, we have operations planning (for example forecasting, market intelligence, sourcing and vendor management) and on the other, we have customer fulfillment (for example order management, manufacturing, delivery, stocking and invoicing) that are both crucial to the overall efficiency of the supply chain.
- Process discovery and development
- Net working capital optimisation
- Supply chain set up and design
- Production and logistics strategies