Why streamline your supply chain is a must-be?

Challenge

• Many enterprises are struggling to fulfill orders because of a disruptive environment, rising customer expectation, mismanaged data and the inefficient collaboration between companies and suppliers.
• The poor interaction with suppliers has caused the misalignment between procurement process and supply chains. Which as a result, has impacted many companies' businesses greatly because of the extended lead times, delayed logistics, affected bottom line...

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• Such misalignment issue can be solved by streamlining the supply chain collaboration.
• A streamlined supply chain can help all players in the value chain have a better understanding of the mutual strengths, weaknesses and working styles. The benefits of such are significant for companies to achieve an optimal supply chain collaboration.

Results

• A healthy supply chain requires improved partner relationships and supplier interactions. A smoother collaboration and streamlined communication can help improve supply chain and develop a healthy long-term supplier relationships.
• We can be the bridge between you and your suppliers. Our end-to-end, face-to-face solutions can help you strengthen your interaction with your suppliers, which in the end, can strengthen your supplier relationships and improve the visibility of your supply chain management.

Challenge

• Customers who return items, normally have ended their preferences for that company from the unpleasant experiences. Defectives are often one of the major reasons goods to be returned.
• Whenever quality issues arise, the cost to replace or repair a defective can increase at least tenfold at each step of the progression, which eventually resulting in significant costs for many companies.

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An effective supply chain management can impact directly the product quality and the overall profitability of a company. Optimized quality control in supply chain is just critical for maintaining a competitive edge in the marketplace and reducing operating costs. It can reduce the defective rate, which ultimately can help protect your company reputation and improve customer retention.

Results

• As requested, we can do factory audit, product & process Inspections manually on behalf of you, to ensure suppliers comply with your company’s quality requirements on the production line to ensure product quality.
• We can also help you implement some standard minimum quality criteria, for instance, enables your direct suppliers to identify and partner with secondary suppliers that meet those requirements only. Besides, we can even go further and conduct periodic audits or request documentation to verify your suppliers’ compliance steps.

Challenge

In a supply chain, more often than not, the negative bullwhip effect or “supply chain glitches” are often caused by the lack of alignment between demand planning and supply planning, or by an asymmetric incomplete information circulation. These can only result in either inventory too much/not enough, or capacity too much/not enough.

Consultants

How to strike a balance between having sufficient inventory levels to meet customer needs without having a surplus?  Demand planning is one of the keys. A proactive demand planning is critical in ensuring supply chains are efficient for inventory and, ultimately revenue.

Results

• The demand-driven value chain requires the supply chain manager to translate such uncertain demands into specific functional strategies that support cost-saving, fast speed, service or other supply chain segmentation outcomes and then align these business strategies with the supply chain capabilities.
• We will be pleased to support and assist you and your fellow supply chain managers to align demands with strategy, and implement within your supply chain. In this way, your supply chain operation can go more smoothly with less inefficiencies and wastes.