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Having a low cost, high quality manufacturing process is not enough in today's globally competitive markets. Our supply chain programs help you take the next step in being more agile, adaptable and customer focused. We focus on 3 key processes that link your business to that of your customers:
Program Management > Collaborative Planning > Order Fulfillment
By applying the principles of continuous improvement to these critical components of your supply chain, you both minimize risk and increase your market differentiation. You steadily improve your ability to manage demand uncertainty, deal with unplanned events and ultimately retain customers longer. Our approach moves you along the journey toward the "perfect" program, plan and fulfillment processes.
Typically, we begin an engagement focusing on the requirements of the Perfect Program - marshalling the right resources, at the right time, to deliver the right results for your customers – and profitability for yourself. Next we focus on enabling you to develop the Perfect Plan. The Perfect Plan focuses on minimizing supply chain risks due to uncertainty in determining and satisfying demand. Finally, we turn our attention to one of your biggest opportunities - becoming easier to do business with. The Perfect Order is about more than being on time, within spec, and delivered in full. It is also about being a collaborative, responsive business partner.
Objectives of Our Supply Chain Series
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Provide JIT training to solve specific, current business issues – not “just in case we need this” training
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Establish a framework for continuous improvement that builds upon your ISO9000 or similar shop-floor initiative, but extends it to your customer-facing supply chain processes
Value to Your Organization
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Retain customers longer as a result of consistently outstanding program management and contract fulfillment processes
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Reduce inventory and supply chain fulfillment risk through better collaborative planning among your OEM, contract manufacturer and supplier base
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Reduce the costs of expediting, lost orders, partial shipments, quality issues, etc. through rapid response to real-time events
Program Structure
If you are like most companies, you have three basic concerns when it comes to training or process improvement:
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How fast can we get results?
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How much of our people’s time is it going to take?
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What’s the ROI potential for the area we are considering?
Our supply chain series of programs is modular. We have three programs, with 4 modules per program ( for additional details, see tracks). For each module, we spend several days with your people to analyze the current situation, we develop a working position for improvement, and then we cap it off with a 3-4 hour workshop that provides both training on best practices and lessons learned from other client environments as well as a forum to reach consensus on the nature and scope of improvements to be made in that area.
You can take all three programs (The Perfect Program, The Perfect Plan, The Perfect Order), or you can take just one or two of them. You can take this as quickly or slowly as you wish, though we recommend no more than one module per week, and no less than one module per month. The faster approach may make sense if you want to emphasize the training aspect of the program and to fine tune your current process. The slower pace may be better suited to your needs if you envision more substantial change coming from that area, and consequently need more time between modules to assimilate, discuss and reach consensus on the way forward.
Getting Started
If you are seriously considering how you can create a more “perfect” set of interactions with your customers and supply chain partners, please contact us by sending us a note by going to contact us
"Mid-tier EMS companies have been slow to adopt SCM technologies and strategies, unlike our larger counterparts, which have actually driven supply chain initiatives on behalf of their customers."
Craig Schuster, COO, SMC
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