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Supply Chain Strategy
There is no one-size-fits-all answer when it comes to supply chain strategies; they’re perhaps among the most complex functional business strategies. At our firm, our extensive experience developing supply chains for blue-chip multichannel companies ensures your supply chain fits seamlessly with marketing and sale strategies.
At our client companies, we take time to fully comprehend their business strategy, marketing, and sales strategies as well as supply-chain plans in order to develop tailored supply-chain strategies that take account of everything from sourcing and procurement through manufacturing, inbound logistics and outbound logistics systems – and then use channel strategies derived or existing within marketing plans to ensure our supply chains provide truly end-to-end coverage.
Our Techniques
Before making recommendations about changes to your supply chain, it's essential to fully comprehend their effects on both cost and service levels. Our supply-chain strategy service typically provides solutions such as optimal network and inventory levels analysis; cost-cutting techniques; efficient ways of moving items through supply chain channels to customers; inventory forecasting solutions etc.
Analysis
We analyze key variables such as:
- Route to Market
- Players in the Value Chain During Analysis
- Key issues and logistics flows
- Major Distributors on the Market
- Channel Dynamics (Risk and Opportunity Analysis)
- Our Voice of Customer Assessment allows us to obtain customer opinions in order to shape supply chain requirements, such as client offering, CRM strategy, competitive vulnerability and extended service offerings.
- Benchmarking best practices against the Supply Chain Operations Reference Model (SCOR), to identify areas of strength and weakness.
what we offer
Business Solutions
How we achieve supply chain business strategies solutionsÂ
Supply Chain Design
Distribution Operation
Implementation Services
supply chain analysis
Supply Chain Design
Supply chain design will yield the greatest improvements for your logistics environment as it sets up its foundations for future operations. At Marktende, our main objective is to develop flexible yet cost-effective networks to respond to changing market conditions efficiently and cost-effectively. To do this, we utilize various modeling tools as well as expertise and hands-on experience when selecting an optimal structure. As part of this service, we provide:
Supply Chain Design and Optimization
With supply network design and optimization, we can optimize every element of the supply chain from manufacturers or suppliers all the way to distribution centers, warehouses, and distributors.
Distribution Network Optimization
The distribution network optimization optimizes and simulates a supplier structure distribution network to maximize efficiency.
Site Selection
When selecting the location for your distribution centers and warehouses, site selection aims at finding one which offers maximum geographical advantage for operations. It's not enough just to consider transportation costs; also important is finding locations near transportation hubs that have easily available skilled labor.
Distribution Operation
Distribution operations are the core of any supply chain. With our distribution operations services, we will ensure that you can quickly deliver the appropriate product at the appropriate location at an acceptable price and within time constraints.
Typical distribution operations services offered include:
Facility Planning
Planning strategically will ensure that your distribution operations align with your marketing and business strategies.
Comprehensive Design
We make strategies a reality by creating a detailed and customized design of the facility you
have in mind.
Implementation Services
With years of implementation expertise at our fingertips, our implementation services can assist you in the smooth transition to your new facility.
Operation Planning and Assessment
Reviewing your current operations can show you how to best allocate resources while keeping costs under control.
Network Planning
As part of our distribution network plan, we create various alternative network configurations and compare these with your existing network to identify which sites, facility sizes/types and channel assignments offer the optimal design solution for you.
Inventory Planning
We can help your company develop an efficient inventory management strategy. Our professionals take an in-depth approach when it comes to inventory analysis and integration into manufacturing, distribution, and marketing with sound policies in mind.
Implementation Services of Supply Chain Projects
Our experience in deploying and starting up both greenfield and retrofitted facilities can help mitigate risks associated with moving from an old facility to a new one and the processes. From start-up through the full operation of either retrofitted or new facilities, our proven approach helps distribution centres quickly reach full operation – whether that means on-site assistance from program directors or providing turnkey solutions from start to finish. Our implementation services include:
- Project Schedule and Budget Management.
- Select and Implement a Third-Party Logistics Provider (T3PL)
- Labour Modelling and Staff Planning Services.
- Transition Planning Launch Support
- Preparing for Go-Live, Ramp-Up and Transition
- Post-Go Live Auditing
Supply Chain Analysis
We provide an effective framework for making business decisions, prioritizing goals, allocating resources efficiently and reaching desired outcomes or goals.
We employ comprehensive checklists and probing questions to assist in the identification of improvement areas, assessment of savings involved and creation of a roadmap of implementation. Together we will determine the scope of your supply chain assessment according to your goals, timeline and budget; then create a business plan providing sufficient savings that cover our engagement costs. Our distribution operations services include:
Operational Planning and Assessment
Examining your existing operations will reveal ways to maximize resources while reducing expenses.