SUPPLY CHAINS NEED TO ADD VALUE FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS
To ensure supply chains add value companies need to be more focused on their sourcing function. Ensuring the most appropriate suppliers are selected is essential, and price is just one of many important determining factors. Your supply chain’s success relies on the ability of your company and your supply partners working together on all issues that need to be performed in alignment with your customer’s expectations.
Supply Chain Management is a vast and fascinating arena wherein all participants are required to perform in an aligned, collaborative, and engaged manner to achieve objectives. As in other disciplines within the business, to achieve set goals it is essential to have the right level of expertise on board.
The expectations of all customer segments need to be well understood to develop your competitive strategy. Then the supply chain team need to determine whether in their current form they can support all customer requirements. Where there are gaps in meeting a segment’s needs, the company need to either invest to close them, or decline to support the customer segment involved.
The final step in achieving strategic-fit is understanding the implied demand and supply uncertainty when looking to satisfy or surpass customer expectations.
At Coterie SCM you will have an expert with a post-graduate degree in this field to ensure the management of supply chains can become a value-adding function within your organisation.
Opportunities to raise performance levels and reduce costs exist across all functions across the supply chain to increase the value of your supply chain to the organisation. Making this a reality is what we aim to achieve for you.
Without this expertise the following shortfalls are often encountered:
- Inventory objectives and strategies are either missing or poorly set.
- Insufficient attention placed on the selection and management of supply chain partners.
- A poor grasp of where to be more responsive or efficient to meet customer expectations.
- Not enough emphasis on supply chain network structures and the opportunities at each node.
- A failure to measure KPIs to drive behaviours.
While our list of shortfalls is far from definitive, they all relate back to the quality of leadership across all supply chain processes.
Whether a push or pull strategy is your primary inventory strategy our purpose is to raise the levels of knowledge, skill, and abilities of your supply chain teams. Through on-site leadership, coaching and KPI management, we raise the levels of your team’s skills, engagement, and confidence within your entire supply chain team to further enhance results.
The foundation of successful supply chain
management
Strategy Alignment
Want to achieve optimal inventory? We identify the steps to be performed across the business to achieve your goal. Then align all functional strategies to the objective.
Operational Planning
Many manufacturers don't see how important acurate demand forecasts are in the production planning function delivering on time. This is especially true for those deploying MTO strategies.
Strategic sourcing
Faced with poor supplier performance, long lead times and large MOQs? Sourcing is about finding supply partners that want you to succeed and collaborate to ensure you do.
ACTIONING CHANGE TO RAISE ORGANISATIONAL VALUE
Whether it is looking at the improvement across the entire supply chain or specifically in one functional area, Coterie Supply Chain Management can assist you through deploying highly qualified experts in all functional areas as well as those included below.
Organisational Design
Performance Management
Process Optimisation
Business System
Network Infrastructure
Skills and ways of working
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