Supply chain management
Supply chain management
SCALA Supply Chain Consultants provides a wide range of supply chain management expertise including:
Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)/ Integrated Business Planning (IBP)
Our team of consultants helps companies introduce and improve S&OP/IBP, ensuring cultural, process and people alignment to align sales and marketing ambitions, supply and manufacturing capabilities, customer needs and financial goals. . Our experience trains SMEs in best practice principles from global implementation to multinational manufacturers.
SCALA Supply Chain Consultants focus on five key areas:
Innovation – Impact of New Product Introductions (NPIs).
Demand planning – including demand sensing and demand shaping activities
Supply planning – inventory management and production capabilities
Financial integration – financial performance and working capital constraints
Strategy – future operational plans and impact of changing market dynamics
SCALA supply chain consultants understand the importance of the various trade-offs between customer service, inventory investments, manufacturing capabilities, supply availability and delivery requirements.
Supply chain planning
Supply and demand planning is absolutely key in delivering high quality service levels in line with customer offering and reducing working capital, inventory, maintenance and obsolescence. SCALA's supply chain and inventory models combined with real expert consulting support enable our clients to identify and understand levels of excellence, how to achieve these and then plan to support execution. china scm service
Our supply chain consultant scope of work includes:
Demand and supply forecasting
Collection policies
Promotions and sales fluctuations
Supplier reliability and lead time
Vendor and co-managed inventory
Supporting IT systems
Demand driven supply chains
Demand Driven Supply Chain (DDMRP) is the latest evolution in end-to-end supply chain management and is emerging as a 'best practice' for many companies.
SCALA has pioneered the demand driven approach with a number of UK clients and has taken companies through the assessment phases and then piloted to roll out implementation.
A key difference with the demand driven approach is that it uses inventory buffers along the extended supply chain to respond to actual demand – reducing reliance on forecasts and the impact of forecast errors on service performance.
Implementing a demand-driven approach typically yields the following supply chain performance improvements:
Customer service levels
Inventory reduction
Reduction of obsolete inventory
Lead-time reductions
Cost reduction
The demand driven approach provides an alternative to the traditional 'forecast push' material requirements planning (MRP) approach and can now be implemented quickly and easily in complex networks thanks to cloud computing and software as a service (SaaS) technology.
SCALA Consulting works with a technology partner.
Call 0330 133 2692 to speak to an expert SCALA consultant to quantify the performance benefits a demand driven supply chain approach can bring to your company - find out how you can improve your supply chain issues with this innovative approach.
Experienced senior-level supply chain consultants provide specialized expertise to clients. Work for leading companies across the UK, Europe, US and China.
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