Perform Visioning Workshop - to define supply chain strategies
3 to 5 day session with key logistics, sales, and operations leaders including 1 full day of team brainstorming
Understand how others have profited from initiatives, such as:
- Logistics based processes & pricing
- Shared networks & co-loading
- Continuous replenishment
- Postponement
- Timed replenishment
- Sales, Operations & Inventory Planning
- Plant direct to customer
- Merge in transit
- Six Sigma Lean supply chain
- Footprint optimization & network design
- Lean manufacturing
Team leaders work to:- Finalize supply chain service expectations
- Create full list of ideas for improvements
- Generate alternative strategies
- Estimate potential economic outcomes
- Develop how to go forward
This helps to get everyone on same page.
| Distribution Center Assessment – to map
plan for improvements
7-10 day on-site work at your warehouse collaborating with your team to develop the way forward
Define management perceptions and issues, such as:
- Cost too high, not meeting metrics
- Out of stocks
- Poor shipping performance
- Productivity poor
- System not performing
- Space issue
Project process:- Perform on-site operational assessment
- Experienced engineering consultants utilized
- Conduct interviews of warehouse team
- Review master plan, building layout, storage strategy, slotting
- Observe operations, review metrics
- Assess all activities and processes
- Systems functionality and utilization
- Assess mechanization and/or automation
- Equipment suitability and utilization
- Write Report with findings and recommendations
Conduct management review of Report. |
