With Supply Chain Consulting You Can Streamline The Way You Work
Author: Addison Adams
When you need advice on contracts, you get help from a lawyer, when you need your car fixed, you take it to a mechanic, so when you need to optimise your supply chain you should seek an expert supply chain consulting company. The same applies with logistics and inventory. Don't reinvent the wheel. It makes sense to get advice from specialised experts, people who have the necessary knowledge and skills to provide you with accurate advice.
You want to find a company that has both a depth and breadth of experience and ability. They should be able to consult on a wide array of supply chain areas, including: demand planning and forecasting, customer relationship management, supplier relationship management, order fulfilment systems, reverse logistics, sales & operations planning, supply & capacity planning, production planning & scheduling, dynamic real time replenishment, transportation planning, after sales service, procurement planning, supply chain reviews, mine site expansion, pre-feasibility, bankable feasibility and implementation studies and mine, as well as rail & port supply chain interfaces.
Finding a team of consultants with actual industry experience is vital, you need to look for consultants that have been successful as senior managers within complex supply chains. They need to have a track record of designing and implementing strategic and operational supply chain solutions and a career long commitment to supply chain knowledge and understanding. With advice from experts like this, you will dramatic improvements in operational efficiency and cost.
Similarly, if you need logistics management, then you need to find consultant company that are able to help in all the key areas, including distribution – issues such as centre of gravity and warehouse network, freight rates and cost analysis & renegotiation, transportation – including vital areas like fleet optimisation, shipping areas planning, routing optimisation and reverse logistics. A small initial outlay in logistics will pay long term dividends.
Inventory management is another facet of business where many companies could improve and there are fantastic consultants who can help. This facet of business is being rightly recognised by executive management grappling with challenging economic circumstances as a key area. Whether the focus is on B2C or B2B, internal customers or external ones, support to production or maintenance, sales or promotions the impact on strategic profit and risk of this key functional skill set demands focus and investment, so seek out expert help and get the best inventory systems and personnel in place.
Seek expert help in these vital areas and optimise your business.
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