Management
Services
Supply Chain Management
In today's highly competitive, dynamic marketplace the pressure on businesses to find new ways to create and deliver value to customers grows even stronger. Best in class performance requires speed, agility,flexibility, quality and endurance coupled with operating excellence. Businesses realize that supply chain management is core to become competitive and capture top line opportunities while being highly effective and efficient. This challenge requires addressing processes, infrastructure and organization to best integrate and synchronize demand driven value networks.
Our areas of expertise include:
• Demand Driven supply chain strategy design
• Supply chain assessment & opportunity evaluation
• Supply chain planning process (S&OP, IBP) and organizational design
• Optimization and rationalization - SKU’s, inventory, suppliers
• Infrastructure and Demand Driven Network configuration
• Sourcing and supply strategy
• Route to Market and channeling strategy
• Stock holding footprint and inventory deployment
• Value driven segmentation drivers analysis (using BI/BA)
• Cost-to-serve modelling
• Demand sensing, shaping and forecasting
• SCM IT / IS solutions – Bid, Manage, Supervise,
• Performance measures, control tower/dashboard design and application
Operations management refers to the administration of business practices to create the highest level of efficiency possible within an organization. It is concerned with converting materials and labor into goods and services as efficiently as possible to maximize the profit of an organization.
Our areas of expertise include:
- Business Process Reengineering (BPR)
- Procurement & purchasing
- Production planning and finite capacity scheduling
- Lean manufacturing improvement
- Service Excellence - customer experience
- Simulation & Modeling of complex manufacturing operations\systems
- Lean manufacturing
- Contracted manufacturing (OEM, ODM)
- Operational excellence
- Capacity utilization analysis (Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), availability, yield, performance etc.)
Logistics is the part of the supply chain practicewhich executes and controls the flow and storage of goods, services and related information from the point-of-origin to the point-of-consumption in order to meet clients' requirements.
Our areas of expertise include:
- Logistics infrastructure and processes improvements
- Logistic network design and optimization
- Outsourcing - warehousing, transport, distribution, on-site logistics etc. (TPL- Third Party Logistics/LSP - Logistics Services Provider
- Inventory management – modeling, policy, application
- Activity Based Costing – Cost to Serve, Cost per Drop
- Global Logistics – transportation modes, control tower, 4PL
- Freight - multi modal transport (land, air, sea) optimization
- Delivery, distribution and "last mile"
- Warehouse operations excellence (layout configuration, process, efficiencies)
- Logistics consolidation
- Route To Market (RTM) channel design
- Territory planning, channeling, Service Day Assignment (SDA)
- Stock holding location and inventory deployment
- Distribution fleet design (FTL, LTL)
- Systems support – Warehouse Management System (WMS) , Transportation Management System (TMS) (includes: Requirements definition, Bid, Manage, Supervise, "Go Live" and post-implementation support)
- Resolving warehousingand transportation dilemmas with simulation/ modeling
- Define and apply Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Customer service – Service Level Agreement (SLA) design
Materials handling &design is the art of transforming efficient on-site product flow and handling, toa disciplined engineering expertise - enabling the optimization of resources to improve productivity quality, safety, traceability and control of materials. Whether manual or fully automated operations, our experience shows that labor availability and dependency coupled with real-estate availability & costs, and the development of technology provides a good return on investment and assets (ROI/ROA). We have been applying innovative solutions in both conventional and highly automated environments
Our areas of expertise include:
- Master plans
- Conceptual design
- Material handling equipment (MHE) detailed design
- Design management
- Tailored Conventional/Mechanized/Automated solutions for:
- Manufacturing
- Distribution centers
- Warehousing and distribution
- Storage systems
- Vehicle load/unload
- Handling units
- Conveyance systems- Conveyors, AGV, LGV
- Sortation systems
- Order picking
- Pick and pack
- Palletize/de- palletize
- Customer fulfilment centers
- Omni –channel centers
- RF, Handheld terminals
- Internet of things (IOT)
- Specifications and bid management:
- Preparing specs for Materials Handling Equipment
- Supplier short listing and bidding (RFI/RFP)
- Supplier evaluation and qualification
- Best choice: Quality, Functionality, Cost
- Technical contract support
- Project management:
- Budget and timeline
- Project Coordination
- On-site supervision: Pre and post Installation and inspection, fit to site, problem solving
- Milestone approval
- Acceptance tests
- Ramp up plan and transition
- Commissioning and handover support Post-implementation support
- Information systems and technology
- Warehouse management systems (WMS)
- Warehouse controls systems (WCS)
- Material Flow Control (MFC)
- Warehouse mobile solutions RF, Voice
- Transport management systems (TMS)Track and trace (bar-code, RFID)
Modelling and data capture enable organizations to shift from"static" descriptive analysis of data (i.e. reports) to predictive and prescriptive analysis using decision support analytics and tools. These include:Business analytics and intelligence, discrete event simulation and optimization. Complex problems with multiple interdependencies can be evaluated using the power of "what if" analysis in order to predict the effect of changes on the business unique competence, to avoid costly mistakes and reduce risks significantly. Large data bases coupled with analytical capability, allows translating analytical data to information driving value based decisions
We design dedicated Decision Support Systems (DSS), using "best of breed" tools, such as: Arena, Supply Chain Guru, QLIKVIEW, MILP
Our areas of expertise include:
- Capital spend risk analysis
- Service cost benefit evaluation
- Inventory optimization and policy
- Infrastructure Network optimization
- Manufacturing Capacity optimization
- Data Analytics
- Shared business and process performance monitoring
We also act as resellers to the following leading tools:
- Arena simulation family - www.arenasimulation.com
- Preactor Advanced scheduling – www.preactor.com
- Supply Chain Guru – www.llamasoft.com
