SUPPLY CHAIN AND LOGISTICS SERVICES
Network Planning and Strategy
- Manufacturing and/or distribution facilities
- Strategic decisions:
number
location
size/capacity
mission
- Optimization (open/close) or existing network only
- Minimize total landed cost
- Maximize total landed profitability
- U.S./North America or global
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Demand and Supply Planning
Strategic
- Dynamic simulation through manufacturing work centers
- Inventory optimization into the extended supply chain
Tactical/Operational
- Forecasting/demand planning
- Inventory planning/DRP
cycle stock
safety stock for demand and supply variability
- Master scheduling
- Sales & operations planning (S & OP)
- Support for lean processes
- Detailed/finite scheduling
- Planning for purchased raw/packaging material and WIP
- Procurement processes
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Manufacturing and Packaging Operations
Process/Operations Assessment
- manufacturing/processing
- packaging operations
Capacity Planning/Analysis
- line efficiencies
- bottlenecks
- downtime/uptime/yield analysis
- changeover assessment
Industrial Engineering
- opportunity identification
- capital equipment (ROI/justification)
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Factory Automation/OEE
Simulation Studies
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Distribution and Logistics
Transportation Management
- processes and information
- inbound, inter-facility, outbound
- carrier/mode management
- third parties
- private/dedicated fleets
- inbound management—separation from material costs
- transportation management systems (TMS optimization)
Warehouse operations
- processes and information
- warehouse “footprints”
- warehouse management systems (WMS)
- radio frequency identification(RFID)
Interface with order management/customer service
"Promotion Logistics"
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