Supply Chain Management
Businesses today face challenges they could not have anticipated even a few decades ago. Sourcing, manufacturing and distribution take place down the street, in another state, or on the other side of the world. All in real time, all impacted by events that are occurring right now. Cost, planning, and risk mitigation must be finely tuned to optimize performance and provide the agility companies require to seize emerging opportunities and adapt quickly to events that occur at the “speed of now.”
Answerport works closely with our clients to improve supply chain efficiency and operational agility through effective supply chain strategies, optimized networks and effective processes. Our cross functional approach, coupled with metrics and our knowledge based focus; enable increased visibility and responsiveness to changing business conditions and emerging opportunities.
Bringing the right combination of supply chain knowledge and our optimization tool kit; combined with our experience which includes lean, Six Sigma, Supply Chain Council / APQC Business reference models, modeling and simulation, best practices and metrics, and assessment tools, to apply to your business.
Our Capabilities
Supply Chain Strategy
Applying our industry experience and flexible tool set, Answerport defines the roadmap our clients can use to transform and align Supply chain strategies with the company’s overall business, sourcing, manufacturing and distribution strategies and initiatives.
Working closely with you, we help identify strategies to leverage low-cost manufacturing and labor centers, mitigate supply risk, leverage spend across regions, optimize sourcing, procurement, manufacturing and distribution process for accuracy and efficiency, and implement effective metrics and analytics to sustain gains.
Operating Model
Our supply chain professionals work with our clients to develop and improve integrated business planning to meet customer demands at the highest levels, while maintaining optimized inventory levels and minimizing conversion and supply chain operating costs.
Our holistic process and planning cycle based approach encompasses sales and operations, capacity and production, distribution and logistics, and transportation and freight management. Working together we identify areas of opportunity to improve performance, simplify and streamline operations, and build the infrastructure for sustainable competitive advantage.
Optimization
Our supply chain consultants apply their supply chain and industry experience with advanced modeling and simulation applications to answer business decisions on how to best consolidate an acquisition, how best to align manufacturing and distribution with demand patterns, what processes should be insourced and which should be outsourced, what the optimal inventory levels and management models are to drive customer service levels and working capital improvements.
Answerport’s combination of experienced consultants, approach, and optimization tools are applied to analyze demand variability and lead time variability, supply chain activity costs, inventory handling and stocking costs, and required service targets to determine optimal supply, manufacturing and distribution models and inventory policy settings across the enterprise.