Supply chain Management (SCM)
An efficient system of supply chain management (SCM) is vital to any successful business today. It must be capable of addressing the needs of complex, multi-tier supply chains and even networks. Elementary to achieving this type of system are factors such as the creation of lean supply chains, the use of modern planning and execution methods – and importantly also close collaboration of the trading partners. A company-specific SCM strategy forms the basis for sustainable and successful supply chain management. Once this is in place, network structures, processes and supporting SCM software systems can be optimized across procurement, production and distribution.ebp-consulting offers consulting services in these areas. We make use of successful methods and proven solutions which build on our many years of experience gained through completed consultancy projects across wide-ranging different sectors.
SCM strategy
- Development of a company-specific SCM strategy
- Definition of value adding and postponement strategies across production networks
- Development of market supply and distribution strategies
- Definition of warehousing and inventory strategies
- Definition of integration strategies for suppliers and distribution partners
- Introduction of variant management and synchronization with SCM
Locations & network structures
- Design of procurement networks
- Design of distribution networks, definition of distribution locations
- Design of production networks and assigning scopes for value creation
- Benchmarking of production plants in the value adding network
- Relocation of production to different sites and suppliers (outsourcing and off-shoring)
- Simulation of networks
- Definition of transport networks and systems
- Feasibility analyses, development of supplier parks and supply centres
Material and goods flow
- Introduction of lean supply chain management
- Optimization of value adding steps and material flows in supply networks
- Development and implementation of vendor managed inventory concepts (VMI) and consignment stock principles
- Optimization of the distribution and dispatch processes
- Configuration of order processes / order-to-cash processes
- Simulation of process scenarios
Planning, control, collaboration
- Introduction of central demand planning
- Optimization of demand forecasting
- Introduction of sales and operations planning (S&OP)
- Introduction of collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment processes (CPFR)
- Optimization of planning methods and algorithms
- Inventory optimization along the supply chain
- Optimization of replenishment and inventory planning concepts
- Requirement specification and selection of SCM software systems
- Introduction of key performance indicator systems (KPI, e.g. SCOR model)
- SCM training using the "Beer Distribution Game"