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Supply Chain Planning
‘4Supplychain helps you plan with confidence and precision’
Supply chain planning is essential in any supply chain to increase customer satisfaction, optimize resource utilization and reduce costs. By accurately forecasting demand and adjusting production, inventory and purchasing accordingly, risks can be controlled and cooperation between partners can improve. It also offers flexibility in the event of changes and contributes to sustainability goals through more efficient use of, for example, transport and consumption of raw materials. For our manufacturing clients, we improve the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process and often develop it further into Integrated Business Planning (IBP). For our retail clients, we improve on-shelf availability by optimizing store- and DC replenishment. In addition to the more regular S&OP processes, we optimize specific topics such as Trade Promotions (TPM) and Product Life Cycle Management.
What are the challenges?
Supply chain planning is a critical process that presents several challenges for businesses. With our extensive experience, we help guide you through these complexities and ensure effective planning strategies. Some of the key challenges include:
- Insufficient coordination and unclear responsibilities within departments to effectively manage planning tasks
- Difficulty aligning supply chain planning with overall corporate strategy and business goals
- Defining clear objectives and measurable KPIs to track and achieve planning success
- Overcoming resistance to change and ensuring leadership cascades planning goals into everyday operations while fostering a culture of continuous improvement
This is how we can support you
For our production clients in industries such as food, pharma, or agri, we improve Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) or Integrated Business Planning (IBP). S&OP topics include demand planning (forecasting), supply (production) planning, executive S&OP and the planning cycle. The underlying KPIs we set up are forecast accuracy and forecast bias for demand, On Time In Full (OTIF) for service level and days inventory on-hand (DIO) for inventory.
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