Lean Supply Chain Management

Being responsible for achieving your company's goals and objectives, you continuously ask the question, "What is it going to take to get ahead and stay ahead of our competition?"

The answer to that question is, of course, "excellent results in all phases of your operation".

One of the most aggressive approaches, in achieving excellence in operations, is to develop and implement a superior Supply Chain Management process.

What is Supply Chain Management?
Supply Chain Management (SCM) is the management of activities that transforms raw materials into intermediate goods and final products, and then delivers those final products to customers. Companies must manage this chain from the supplier's supplier to the customer's customer. The activities of the supply chain involve sales and marketing, purchasing, manufacturing, logistics, distribution, and transportation.

For most companies, a supply chain that rapidly flows information and material can be a significant competitive differentiator. Why is Supply Chain Management getting lots of attention? Because forward-thinking managers know it is a primary strategy to increase market share, reduce cost, reduce inventories, and improve profits.

​They often find that there are no supply chain business rules in place, and that the supply chains lack formal processes, systems, and measurements.

Integrating Information and Material Flow
The steps to success are based on effectively integrating information and material flow within the demand and supply process. To effectively accomplish this, a company needs to compress the "order to cash" cycle. We know we have to have high quality, low cost and short lead times. But, we also need to level load our factory, dramatically reduce inventory, and communicate timely information up and down the supply chain.

Timely Information With e-commerce Solutions
  • Do your customers and suppliers have all the information they need literally at their fingertips?
  • Can they check for themselves the availability of a product or service, or the status of an order?
  • Can they make that inquiry at any time of the day or night? If you cannot answer yes to many of these questions then your company needs to investigate how a solid strategy in e-commerce can improve information flow and accuracy.

You need to ask yourself these questions.
  • Does your company understand the principles of supply chain management and its impact on your operations?
  • Do you understand what your customers and suppliers require?
  • Do you understand the roll of logistics in a finely tuned supply chain?
  • Do you understand the operational and financial impact of SCM?
  • Is your company committed to embrace SCM as both a strategy and a process?
  • Do you have the systems and expertise in place to move rapidly into e-commerce?
  • Once you have answered these questions, you can begin to design a roadmap to successful Supply Chain Management. With the opportunities and stakes so high, executives are focusing significant company resources on streamlining the supply chain

Five Step Process
  • ​Evaluates your existing process
  • Quickly develops your Supply Chain Management Strategy
  • Identifies key areas of opportunities
  • Develops a company-wide approach to e-commerce
  • Develops a master plan that ties together the supply chain from the customer's customer through production, supply, warehousing, and distribution through to the supplier's supplier

Contact us to learn more about our five-step approach to superior Supply Chain Management and our fast paced approach in implementing Supply Chain Management.

Comprehensive Assessment
Our comprehensive assessment will put you on the path of:
  • Increased market share
  • Reduced lead times
  • Timely and accurate information
  • Improved profits

​In most industries, market share and customer satisfaction will be won or lost based on supply chain performance. Take advantage of our experience and knowledge and call us today.