We are supply chain consultants, strategists and engineers. By designing strategies for our clients’ supply chains, we help them increase market share and earnings. We have developed advanced tools to engineer supply chains. These tools include several computer applications that optimize specific components and that are unique to supply chain consultants. Our most advanced tools optimize warehouse networks and inventories. Others quantify the relationship between customer satisfaction and market share in competitive markets. Our inventory deployment optimization method is used in some of America’s largest supply chains. Our USA clients have included Ameritech, Amoco Oil, Brunswick, Bordens, Case, Converse, Cummins Engine, Emerson Electric, FMC, General Motors, W. W. Grainger, Helene Curtis, Honda, Navistar, Johnson Controls, L’Oreal, Kraft Foods, Honeywell, Mobay Chemical, Occidental Petroleum, Panasonic, Ralston Foods, S. C. Johnson & Sons, Sony, Union Carbide, Universal Studios, USG and many others. Optimal supply chain management does two things:
1. Provide the highest possible service for any given operation cost or budget. 2. Require the lowest possible operations cost for any given service level. OPTIMAL TERRITORIES
Supply chains are composed of several components...as follows: Warehouse networks Inventory deployment Procurement Transportation Warehousing Order processing Customer relationships The systems that operate these functions
Networks with the Lowest Possible "Time-to-Market" The 10 Best Warehouse Networks have been developed based on the lowest possible transit leadtimes to customers represented by the US population. For example, Vincennes, IN provides the lowest possible lead-time for one warehouse. Any other place will increase transit lead-time to the US population. Similarly putting any three warehouses in any locations other than Boyertown PA; Jackson TN and Porterville CA will cause the transit lead time to be higher than 1.33 days. The "Percent Throughput" statistics specify the amount of material that would flow trough these warehouses based on them serving the population closest to them. Send us your warehouse locations for a free evaluation. Our warehouse management consultants will compute the service your network provides, contrast that with the 10 Best, determine where your next warehouse(s) should be located and what additional service this would achieve for you. We'll also determine which warehouse(s) you may want to eliminate if you wish.
Just like people, inventories need check-ups…exams by professionals…inventory doctors. You wouldn’t dream of letting your executives go without routine physicals. Why let your valuable inventory assets go unexamined? Give us your data…hop up on our exam table. We’ll find the muscle, the fat and tell you what to do about it CONTACT US TO EVALUATE YOUR INVENTORY
Healthy inventories perform at peak levels—high service and low capital. How’s your inventory performing? Are your Fill rates too low; is your investment too high? Our Inventory Health Check-up answers your critical questions. We download data from your files and examine it, giving you the following:
Ways to boost performance—Fill Rates, Turns, both Better Safety Stocks that cut investment and raise service (Fill Rates and Lead-times) Re-order logic and supplier Lead-time techniques that lift performance Healthier Stock/No-stock decisions that multiply performance How package sizes shape what, how much and where to stock items Exposure of Excess and what to do about it The limits of your Forecast’s accuracy—what’s the best you can get and how to cope with it
Put your inventory on our examination table. We’ll scan it from head to toe with our high-tech tools and put you on a path to peak inventory performance.
Call for details at 312.346.5080.
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