Case Study – Circa 2010-2020 Timeframe

Supply Chain Redesign- Success Story

SUPPLY CHAIN REDESIGN (NORTH AMERICA)

Cost Savings Initiatives

Commodity Boom

Investments in New capital types of equipment.

Lower costs structure

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Supply chain redesign, rationalization, and optimization creating a robust and lean network saved $2.3 M pa.

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PROJECT DETAILS

Optimize the inbound and outbound supply chains for a greenfield plant.
Envisaged outsourcing to save 20 to 25% of overall supply chain costs.
Several scenarios and locations modeled to optimize potential costs well before any engineering.

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METHODOLOGY

The future network was based on a hub and spoke model with six distribution centers located to cover maximum product demand.

RESULTS

Saving nearly 10% in the reconfiguration of the packaged supply chain network was realized.

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