Supply Chain Analysis is a system of tradeoffs between costs and benefits. It is easy to come up with a collection of sourcing strategies, deployment strategies, and production strategies that are feasible and cost effective among themselves. However, it is critical that these be put together to form feasible scenarios in a unified model. Only by doing so, can the total landed cost impacts be compared. Brand, finance, deployment, purchasing, and manufacturing often have independent and contradictory analysis.
Only by combining the analysis into a unified model that conforms to system constraints can an optimum solution be identified. Also, it is by doing complete scenario analysis that a planning organization recognize the true value of “what if” projects. For example: moving from truck to rail deployment might save a lot of transportation costs, but what will it do to inventory and cycle times? Or what is the value of improving the throughput of a factor?
OUR SOLUTIONS:
- Create a unified total landed cost model of the operations environment
- Present viable scenarios that meet constraints
- Allow the user to apply facilitated optimization to refine and optimize options
- Show the cash flow and performance impacts of various scenarios
- Create sophisticated Sensitivity Analysis
Bottom Line: There are always many solutions to the planning problem, we help you decide which one to execute
