Our operational backgrounds, our top level supply chain experience as well as our continued thought leadership in this arena results in a strong knowledge base.
Supply chains are complex entities. In their totality, they consists of a large number of moving parts. From equipment that actually performs the supply chain tasks, to systems used to plan, schedule and track the supply chain tasks, to almost countless supply chain theories and methodologies some of which contradict each other, there is no dearth of pre-packaged prescriptions in this field. In these circumstances, it is easy to either see only part of the picture, or take wrong pre-packaged prescription if one is not careful. That is the reason, it is crucial to know the end-to-end supply chain in its totality in order to make significant improvements in the supply chain.
Following are just some of the supply chain equipment, facilities, systems, people, methodologies, theories, players and horizons that we have experience with:
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Equipment & Facilities |
Trucks, trains, ships, cranes, forklifts, articulated vehicles, tankers, MMUs, warehouses, stackers, gantries, containers, conveyors, pick-to-lights, trolleys, RFID equipment, tanks, racking, pallets, scanners, docks, pipelines |
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Systems |
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP/MRPII), Transportation planning, inventory planning, forecasting, warehouse management, POS, Demand Planning, Network planning, Production planning, Replenishment/Distribution planning, operational scheduling, Transaction processing systems, EDI, Telemetry, RFID etc. |
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People |
Operators, schedulers, controllers, planners, managers, directors, CEOs, Boards |
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Methodologies |
Hypothesis based problem solving, SCOR, CPFR, Inventory targeting, Network Optimisation, Postponement, Tailored sourcing, Vendor Managed Inventories (VMI), Efficient Consumer Response (ECR), Customer/Product profitability analysis, Crossdocking, Value@Risk modelling |
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Theories |
Demand-pull, Systems Theory, Theory of Constraints, EOQ, Min-max, Product Life Cycle, Safety Stock, Extended Enterprise, Supply Clusters, Hub and spoke model, Direct replenishment model, Linear and integer programming, Cost to Serve, Just-in-time/Kanban |
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Players |
Internal, 4PL, 3PL, transportation companies (rail, truck, ship), consultants (strategy, systems, implementation), equipment suppliers, shipbrokers, shipyards, drydocks, ship-owners, trucking companies, railroads, rail car leasing companies, aircraft leasing companies, port authorities, regulatory authorities, truck manu facturers, pipeline companies |
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Time Horizons |
Transaction, Scheduling, Planning, Strategizing |
