Supply Chain Solutions for all Businesses

Supply Chain Solutions for All Businesses

Supply Chain Solutions are available to all businesses regardless of their size.  What’s more approximately 50% of a business’s savings from a professional business review will generally come out of the business’s supply chain regardless of the size of the business.

Supply Chain Solutions for most businesses generally include:

• Development of a procurement strategy.
• Development of procurement policies and procedures.
• Supplier negotiations, including lead times and capacity.
• Ordering both supplies and services.
• Knowing your capacity and bottlenecks.
• Ensuring client quotes include current supplier pricing and your business’s capacity constraints.
• Regular contact with all major suppliers.
• Advising clients of any known or potential delays.
• Back costings to ensure all costings are up to date.
• Linking financial forecasts – including cashflows – with sales and marketing plans
• Working with suppliers to make it easy for you to do business with them and for them to do business with you.
• Simplification of processes.

Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) models are also available to manufacturing and processing businesses to match product demand with production.  The advantage of these models is that they help businesses to:

• Save money by only producing the required amount of product thereby reducing the potential for obsolete and slow moving stock taking up storage space.
• Allow for improved forecast of both sales and production.

For manufacturing or processing industries who want to take their sales and operations planning to the next level, RFSCE www.rfsce.com have developed a very good S&OP model with solutions available from AUD $100k – $260k, depending on your business’s need.  This means that there are now affordable solutions available for both medium sized businesses and the larger small manufacturing and processing businesses.  For more information on this product please contact Reto Fuhrer reto@rfsce.com

2 Minute Health Check

If you think you are doing too many hours in your business or are generally not happy with the way your business is performing, why not take my quick 2 minute health check https://intotheblue.co.nz/business-health-check/ or contact me at john@intotheblue.co.nz or (021) 625-871.