Offerings
Integrated Value Chain (IVC)
Distribution-intensive companies face the challenges of rising operating costs, expanding service requirements and constant changes in their capital-intensive distribution networks. Traditional approaches can sub-optimize the whole by focusing too narrowly on discrete components of the supply chain (inventory, logistics, warehouse management), limiting potential benefits and adding complexity.
CSC’s IVC facilitates discovery and effectiveness at the “Network Level” by taking a more holistic approach to the design, implementation and active management of a distribution network
Links customers, distributors and suppliers together with logistics operations to enable a single network centric view of demand and supply
Assesses scenarios in order to optimize the flow of materials, information and cash to reduce lead-times and minimize cost
Combines the disciplines of supply chain modeling, forecasting, inventory management, transportation and warehousing to provide breakthrough results
Results
By employing the IVC approach, you can reduce total supply network costs by two to eight percent of revenue through better customer service levels, reduced inventory, transportation, handling and material costs.
Case Studies
The largest U.S. foodservice distributor had grown through acquisition to a $30 billion company, consisting of 68 highly autonomous operating companies with discrete, independently managed supply chains. The redundancy and complexity of this network led to excess inventory, expanding warehousing facilities and transportation costs driven by less-than-truckload shipments. This had a compounding effect on order management costs, constrained demand visibility and prohibited the company from leveraging its potential economies of scale. Learn how the company’s vision to develop a nationally- standardized and integrated supply chain network is being realized.
A major telecommunications provider needed to transform their ‘go to market strategy’ to gain a competitive advantage. To achieve this, the company needed to become the channel master by improving the management of their extended supply chain with B2B customers, transportation and warehousing providers, and their OEM supply base. Learn how they accomplished this while removing significant supply chain costs and limiting supply chain management staffing increases.
Contact Us
For more information on IVC, contact Steve Goble via email at sgoble@csc.com or phone at 214.523.5552 or Steve Caulkins via email at scaulkin@csc.com or phone at 781.290.1735.
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To learn more about CSC's IVC, read Achieving Supply Chain Network Effectiveness
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