Supply Chain Sustainability Consulting
Top manufacturers are prioritizing common-sense sustainability solutions to drive triple-bottom-line results. In fact, there is a significant opportunity for U.S. manufacturers to expand capacity and gain business with a significant advantage in sustainability over China and other manufacturing options. As sustainability continues to increase in popularity and end-to-end supply chain carbon footprints are evaluated, U.S. manufacturing will skyrocket. Technological advances and innovation drive sustainable manufacturing, and, according to the WIPO Index, the United States is one of the top countries in innovation.
How Do You Benefit from Supply Chain Sustainability Consulting?
Sales & Marketing
Sales and Marketing leaders will gain high levels of service for their customers with on-time-in-full (OTIF) levels in the high 90’s, shorter lead-times, and high ratings on customer scorecards. They also will gain improved levels of responsiveness to customer needs and confidence in new product rollouts.
Engineering
For engineer-to-order (ETO) and configure-to-order (CTO) businesses, Engineering leaders will gain visibility into workload requirements to support drawings, customer approvals, and bill of material designs. They will be able to plan for the appropriate level of engineering capacity and capabilities.
Manufacturing
Manufacturing leaders will gain visibility into work center, machine, equipment, tooling, maintenance, staffing, and training requirements so that they can plan accordingly. They will also gain visibility into the master production schedule so that they can optimize run sizes with changeovers and costs.
Purchasing
Purchasing leaders will gain visibility into raw material, component, ingredient, and outside processing requirements so that they can work with suppliers to set up the appropriate programs and contracts to meet customer requirements. Suppliers will have visibility to capacity and scorecards.
Logistics
Logistics leaders will gain visibility into storage, warehousing, handling, picking, packing, shipping, transportation, returns, and equipment requirements so that they can plan accordingly. As gaps arise, service and cost options can be analyzed to expand capacity or capabilities as needed to support customers.
Finance
Finance leaders will gain visibility into sales forecasts, engineering and manufacturing plans, capital expenditure needs, purchase forecasts, staffing and support resource requirements, logistics forecasts, and inventory projections. Thus, they will have revenue, cost, profitability, and cash flow projections.
Planning
Planning leaders will gain visibility into the demand plan, sales orders, quotes, replenishment orders, and work order status so that they can develop the best master production schedule (MPS) to optimize customer service, operational efficiency and working capital. They will gain high service levels and increased margins.
Blog posts for Sustainability
Master Production Scheduling (MPS) connects strategic planning with manufacturing execution. In this Supply Chain Byte, Lisa Anderson explains how manufacturers can better utilize MPS, ERP, and advanced planning systems to improve production schedules, manage exceptions, increase on-time delivery, and support profitable growth.
Inventory availability is critical to revenue growth, customer service, and cash flow. Manufacturers and distributors can reduce stockouts, optimize inventory investments, and improve profitability by connecting demand forecasting, production and materials planning, replenishment, and SIOP to ensure the right products are available when customers need them.
Manufacturing capacity is often misaligned, with some companies facing shortages while others have available capacity. In this Supply Chain Byte, Lisa Anderson discusses how strategic partnerships and stronger manufacturing capabilities can help companies leverage available capacity, improve scalability, and capture growth opportunities.
