Material Management
We help you to overcome these challenges by approaching materials management tasks as follows:
Do you have a process in place to ensure the balance between demand and supply?
We devise a S&OP process that strengthens your customer service, reduces inventory levels, diminishes lead times, and stabilises production rates. By implementing this integrated business management process, you will be able to focus on key supply chain drivers and get a better result for your business. Key functions within S&OP are:
- Demand Planning
- Master Scheduling – Rough Cut Capacity Planning
- Supply Planning
Are you struggling to keep up with purchasing and manufacturing activities and demanding delivery schedules?
An MRP concept will simultaneously meet the following objectives:
- Maintain the lowest possible material and product levels in stock
- Ensure raw materials are available for production
- Delivered In Full On Time (DIFOT) to your valued customers
- Manage aligned production and procurement lot sizes
We are experts in optimising your inventory levels and ensure that you can manage the ordering stocking and storing processes efficiently.
Procurement
Is your company reaching purchasing potential?
We will establish your procurement function professionally.
Holistic, systematic, long-term approach to acquire current & future needs of your organisation.
- Procurement policy
- Procurement strategy
- Creating new potential for success
- Make or buy
- Supplier relationship management
The aim is to define the strategic decisions in accordance with the corporate strategy on a medium-term time horizon.
- Analysis of the procurement market
- Sourcing
- Tender Management
- Supplier management – qualification, selection
- Contract management
- Supplier relationship management
Short term view: To meet the daily purchasing needs of your organisation:
- Request quotes
- Purchase orders
- Order retrievals
- Supplier evaluation
- Invoice approval
- Complaint management
- Administration
Operations
Is your long-term goal to achieve operational excellence?
We are experts in improving operational processes including:
- Production planning – Creating a feasible production plan:
- Planning detailed requirements
- Shop floor planning
- Sequence planning
- Capacity planning (machine, personnel)
- Production control – Monitoring progress of defined plan:
- Order release
- Progress monitoring
- Layout planning & optimisation – We optimise your layout through the internal arrangement of operating resources and work systems by improving the flow of materials / information to reduce transports and shorten routes.
- Maintenance – Is your infrastructure taken care of? Are you struggling to get orders out the door due to a high amount of unplanned downtime? We distinguish between:
- Reactive maintenance: When it breaks, you fix it.
- Preventive maintenance: You schedule replacements ahead of time before parts break, usually at a regular interval.
We are professionals in devising top of the line logistics processes which fulfils the 6R logistical mission: The right material, at the right time, in the right place, in the right quantity, in the right quality and at the right cost.
Every logistical action should meet the 6R requirement.
- Warehouse logistics – We establish or enhance your warehousing processes professionally from goods receipt to goods issue:
- Warehouse management policy
- Warehouse strategy
- Storage types & techniques
- Order picking
- In-house transport systems
- Layout planning & optimisation
- Warehouse management systems – administration
- Distribution logistics – We help you to create a distribution concept, bringing your products to the end customer as quickly and economically as possible:
- Strategic tasks
- Distribution policy
- Distribution strategy
- Creation of cost-optimised distribution networks
- Strategic tasks
- Tactical tasks
- Transport management – make or buy
- Tender management
- Service level agreements
- Tactical tasks
- Operational tasks
- Customer service
- Order processing
- Shipping
- Operational tasks
SCM & operations support functions
We consider the following 3 support functions to be elementary:
We utlise an Integrated Business Management System, applicable to different industries and guaranteeing successful ISO certification of the following standards:
- ISO 9001 Quality
- ISO 14001 Environment
- ISO 45001 Health & Safety
Our system has a proven record of successful certification with zero major or minor non-
conformities.
Do you want to be ahead of your competitors? Digital transformation of supply chains is key and therefore essential to be competitive in the market.
Working with you, we improve operational efficiency and productivity by converting your business processes to use digital technologies instead of analogue or offline systems. We enable automation, increase data quality, collect and structure all that data so you can apply advanced technology, such as better and smarter software.
Do you have a customs-built supply chain and operations controlling concept?
We create solutions to answer questions such as:
Which processes need to be measured?
- Which key performance indicators (KPI) support this procedure?
- What organisational measures are needed to achieve improvements?