Supply Chain & Operations Strategy
Supply Chain Design & Engineering
Supply Chain Planning
Supply Chain Execution
Supply Chain Systems
Supply Chain Planning
Robust planning environments need to be built on proven and best practices that are in turn supported by the appropriate tools and technology that take company data, and then perform the algorithms and calculations that enable planners to make the correct decisions and optimize and impact company inventory performance. We like to start at the Sales and Operations Planning process to bring all key and integrated company stakeholders into a “one number” environment. Supporting clients with a focus on things like improvement of forecast accuracy or providing input to inventory and replenishment strategies and policies is where we have had great success with our clients.
SCAP focuses on the following specific professional services in helping clients create the supply chain vision or roadmap and more critically how it will be executed.
- Demand and Supply Planning / Forecasting / Replenishment
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Creating the roles, responsibilities, accountabilities and expectations to develop a formalized planning environment requires a clear path for change and demonstrated technical expertise.
We typically help our clients answer the following questions:
- What should the correct inventory replenishment model be for our business?
- How should we approach our suppliers to be more collaborative and work closer with us to improve our asset utilization and improve service?
- How do we improve our in stock position and service level but ensure we have the right mix of finished goods in minimizing risks of obsolescence?
- How do we move our business to a more demand driven pull planning process that drives the upstream supply chain and what is the infrastructure, metrics, information systems, accountabilities and work processes?
- We are evolving to a more formalized supply chain planning (demand / supply) environment. What should the organization look like, what would the skill sets be and what are the appropriate tools, systems and work processes to successfully execute this function?
- What are some of the tools and methods we can incorporate in our business to evolve to the next level for our company on how we forecast and manage inventory?
- What would the benefits be of moving to a time phased DRP environment for managing thousands of finished items across multiple DC’s?
- Sales and Operations Planning
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As we see it the Supply Chain of any company is divided into Planning Functions and Execution Functions. As part of our Supply Chain Planning expertise and service, we help companies determine the right steps, tools, organization and skill sets to effectively and appropriately develop competencies in planning their supply chains beginning with a robust and effective Sales and Operations Planning Process.
We typically help our clients answer the following questions:
- How do we get Sales, Marketing, Finance and Operations "on the same page", in terms of the business planning and budgeting process and what is the appropriate Integrated Sales and Operations Planning Process for our business? What will be the quantified benefits and how do we get cross functional stakeholders to buy in and measure results?
- How does S&OP drive innovation?
- Who typically "owns" the S&OP process?
- How do you change behaviors in support of S&OP?
- What focus on forecast accuracy is typical in an S&OP process?
- What level of forecast accuracy is considered best practice or world class?
- Are there cross-functional teams with joint / shared metrics like forecast accuracy, inventory turns, etc.?
