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In the new global business era, decision-makers demand answers
for cycle time and cost reductions, profitability enhancements,
and quality improvements across the supply chain. Not knowing
the answers is like not competing. In fact, if you can’t
quantify answers to the questions below, you are likely losing
double-digit supply chain cost reductions and cycle time
improvements.
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What should our global supply
chain look like? (Suppliers, manufacturers, plants,
transportation, distribution centers, service territories)
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How can we reduce total supply
chain costs while improving customer service at the same
time?
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How do costs for raw materials,
manufacturing, warehousing, freight or others affect current
and/or future supply chain strategies and profitability?
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What are the optimal inventory
levels given customer demand and cycle times?
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How are written and unwritten
business policies such as direct ship, order cut-off times,
consolidation and others affecting customers and our bottom
line?
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How many manufacturing plants or
distribution centers should we have? What products should
they have? How big should they be? Where should they be
located?
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What is the impact if we switch
to third-party warehousing or enter into a partnership or
merger?
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Which products, customers,
and/or countries are most profitable and which ones should
we consider dropping?
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What is the most desirable and
profitable mix of customer service, price, availability, and
cost?
- How do we plan for
shortages or seasonable availability in raw materials,
production or warehousing limitations?
Find the Answers You Need with Integrated Strategies’ Supply
Chain Network Strategy Development Approach
Using a
systematic and aggressive strategy development process,
complimented by PC-based supply chain and logistics modeling
packages, Integrated Strategies tackles unlimited problem sizes
and total path analyses. Our modeling tools and services provide
a robust and detailed examination of “what if” supply chain and
logistics scenarios in three important business areas: strategic
planning, supply chain tactical planning, and operations
planning.
Modeling and Logistics Tools Key
Features:
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Integrated Strategies' Supply
Chain Analysis and Modeling
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Unlimited problem size allows for
any number of sites, items, customers, costs, and rules to be
defined for your supply chain at the appropriate level of detail
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Total path solutions optimize the
full spectrum of your supply chain, from sourcing through
delivery
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Time-phased elements allows proper
evaluation of seasonal and periodic issues including product
availability, seasonal demand, promotions, etc.
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Data Templates Included:
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Sourcing: incorporates
raw material sourcing rules as well as pricing and supplier
evaluations including qualitative rating measurements
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Production: includes
rules for item allocations to plants, bills of materials,
production costs, and scheduling plus multi-level capacities
to reflect raw material availability or contractual
limitations
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Transportation: contains
site-to-site freight, site-to customer freight (as
point-to-point or formula-based calculations), lane specific
handling charges and freight discounts by customer, region,
site, or item
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Inventory: includes
inventory deployment (pull and push), weeks on hand
variations, just-in-time deployment rules, overflow storage
planning, and inventory allocation methods
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Warehousing: uses actual
values for inbound materials, receipt handling, transfer,
customer shipment handling, and building fixed charges
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Customer Distribution:
solution engine rules include least-cost sourcing, fixed
sourcing, profit maximization, bundling, and service
sourcing on proximity, transit time, and/or quality for cost
and service tradeoff analysis
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The Integrated Strategies
Supply Chain Network Strategy Development Approach
handles global considerations including taxes, tariffs,
duties, labor, and ocean/port freight cost
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