Supply Chain Solutions
We believe that the era of "my company is doing everything" is over. The strategy of "push" has reversed to "pull." The economies of scale and steady mass markets are now economies of scope and globally dispersed dynamic niche markets. The physical inventory in warehouses is being replaced by information and knowledge embedded inside computer systems.
Supply chain management is a complex, multidisciplinary, and distributed process that needs solutions that are geared toward creating, integrating, managing, controlling, and optimizing supply chains at different planning horizons.
Our supply chain solutions enable managers and decision makers to maximize their supply chain performance. In general, our solutions support decisions making at several levels:
- Strategic: e.g. supply chain network design, allocation of suppliers to plants, outsourcing, and supply chain wide capacity planning.
- Tactical: e.g. production policies, product and distribution planning.
- Operational: e.g. material flow, reorder quantity, scheduling products on machines, shipping and handling.
In more specific terms, our approach to develop supply chain solutions is based on best practiced methodologies and state of the art scientific approaches including:
- Structured and explicit definition of the Supply Chain, from different views, e.g. process, information, material, flows, interdependencies, etc.
- A methodology to model and analyze the dynamic and stochastic nature of the Supply Chain and its elements.
- Defining and using Supply Chain key performance indicators, such as responsiveness, cost, reliability, safety, flexibility, asset management efficiency.
- A flexible report generation system.
- A methodology to optimize the Supply Chain.
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