Offerings
Supply Chain Benefits Achievement
With today’s flurry of interest and activity in collaborative commerce, many companies are overlooking the improvement opportunities that lie within their own internal supply chains. The accelerated pace of commerce and ever-increasing customer expectations place demands on organizations that challenge the capabilities of the business. Some companies are responding by changing their business models, and jumping headfirst into collaborative commerce. Others are choosing a more deliberate approach, solidifying their own operations before selectively venturing into the collaborative commerce environment. Additionally, some companies have spent considerable time and effort implementing enterprise-wide information technology solutions and want to make sure they are obtaining the full return on the investment before initiating new technology initiatives. In any case, it’s imperative that companies shore up their supply chain vulnerabilities, and harness the untapped benefit that lies within their own organization.
Operational Model
Our Supply Chain Benefits Achievement solution is a results-driven application of proven management techniques and technologies to gain bottom-line business improvements. Our approach aligns your business processes to your current enterprise-wide information systems and identifies initiatives that can be implemented without further significant investment. Our flexible methodology is modular, and provides a concise, yet comprehensive, approach that can be tailored to support your unique business requirements. This allows us to quickly determine and implement those changes that will have the greatest benefit in the shortest period of time.
With three primary solution entry points, we can either start from a “clean sheet of paper” or pick up your analysis where you left off. These entry points allow you to address different situations:
“I don’t know what’s wrong.”
In this situation CSC will conduct a High Impact Supply Chain Assessment (HISCA) that quickly drives out problems across key areas of your supply chain and identifies a set of Financially Attractive Short Term (FAST) initiatives designed to create immediate benefit.
“I know what’s wrong, but I don’t know why.”
Our solution in this case is a highly tailored assessment that focuses on your identified problems, coupled with pre-defined tools and methodologies that provide answers to many typical supply chain problems.
“I know why, but I need help fixing it.”
CSC will work with your team, combining our expertise in designing supply chains with your team’s understanding of your specific requirements to define an approach to your unique situation.
The Benefits
- Improved forecast accuracy
- Improved planning and scheduling capabilities
- Reduced inventory levels
- Increased asset utilization
- Reduced manufacturing/replenishment lead-times and accelerated supply chain response times
- Enhanced customer satisfaction through higher order fill rates
- Reduced costs for logistics, warehousing and manufacturing
- Dramatically improved customer service ratings
- Reduced volume of errors and exception processing
- Streamlined, more efficient processes
For more information please contact:
For more information please contact:
Brad Barton
CSC Supply Chain Practice Leader
Phone (314) 692-3700
bbarton@csc.com
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