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What is Supply Chain Management?
Shortened product life cycles, increased competition, and heightened expectations of customers have forced many leading edge companies to move from physical logistic management towards more advanced supply chain management. Additionally, in recent years it has become clear that many companies have reduced their manufacturing costs as much as it is practically possible. Therefore, in many cases, the only possible way to further reduce costs and lead times is with effective supply chain management.
In addition to cost reduction, the supply chain management approach also facilitates customer service improvements. It enables the management of inventories, transportation systems and whole distribution networks so that organizations are able meet or even exceed their customers' expectations.
To simplify the concept, supply chain management can be defined as a loop: it starts with the customer and ends with the customer. All materials, finished products, information, and even all transactions flow through the loop. However, supply chain management can be a very difficult task because in the reality, the supply chain is a complex and dynamic network of facilities and organizations with different, conflicting objectives.
At GlobalSynch, we take a holistic view of supply chain management. GlobalSynch 's Supply Chain Strategies integrate multiple strategy sets that can help transform entire industries, not just individual companies.
GlobalSynch's Supply Chain Strategies are strategically focused, process structured, and technology enabled, designed to deliver quantifiable business-based benefits. We focus on technologies, such as leading applications to help clients seize competitive opportunities and enhance their bottom line. We have an end-to-end understanding of vendors, customers, channels, operations, and integration capabilities. We derive our strategies from all industry segments to help develop best-of-class supply chain answers for our clients.
Our long-term vision is to enable organizations to manage and integrate the flow of information, money, and products within and beyond the enterprise. GlobalSynch's Supply Chain Strategies Model depicts this vision. Within this framework, supply chain value and performance excellence are direct results of increased enterprise-to-enterprise supply chain integration, coordination, flexibility, and responsiveness.
i2 Supply Chain Management
i2 SCM enables you to strategize, plan and execute a company’s buy, make, move, store, fulfill and service business processes across multiple enterprises for total profitability.
i2 SCM allows analysts to run simulations to test different network scenarios to determine where to place facilities and where to manufacture, to determine optimal assembly, production, inventory stocking, distribution, and transportation for each plant and enterprise as a whole.
i2 SCM enables synchronization production and distribution planning with factory scheduling, while transportation planning can be integrated with master planning. Real-time collaboration with customers and suppliers provide the power to establish supply and demand plans that can be optimized simultaneously.
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