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Supply Chain

Efficient, integrated supply chains are fundamental to most businesses, not only for getting products to market fast, but doing it faster than the competition.

When applied to supplier integration, our proven expertise in transformation, combining Lean principles with cutting-edge digital technologies, shifts the focus away from a silo mentality to a company-wide vision. We work side-by-side with your teams to put the right solutions in place, so we can be sure we deliver transformation that lasts. The aim is to create a collaborative mindset far better equipped to provide customers with products and services with optimized efficiency.

Optimizing a supply chain is not just about optimizing the flow of components or raw materials along the supply chain, but also the flow of information, ensuring each link in the chain is aware of the others’ needs. Leading to reduced stock levels, shorter lead times, and less unnecessary movement of stock between customer and supplier.

Another aspect of effective supplier integration is agility. But what does agile really mean? It is not employees and managers taking a freewheeling approach to business. It is using a highly organized cross-functional approach to regularly re-assess demand and react to that as quickly as possible, continually adapting each time to a moving market target. An agile supply chain is one stripped of time-wasting processes such as repeated inspection of deliveries. This also encourages a ‘zero defects’ mentality upstream and builds trust, up and down the chain.

Rationalized delivery costs, timings and quantities are the very foundation of an optimized supply chain. All parties along become truly integrated, open and transparent, collaborating to resolve issues as they arise. The result? A far more joined-up and efficient supply chain that underpins a more agile, profitable business.

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How Lean Digital Supports Companies in Achieving Net-Zero Supply Chains

Supply chain sustainability has become key to the fight against climate change. As the biggest source of carbon emissions for the majority of companies, supply chains generate as much as 80 percent of the world’s total carbon emissions.

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How Manufacturing Engineering Systems help manufacturers meet demand, despite disruptions across the supply chain

There’s no question that we’ve entered the era of Industry 4.0, described by pwc as encompassing “end-to-end digitization and data integration of the value chain.” Industry 4.0 companies optimize production to the fullest extent by connecting physical, virtual, and human assets, and integrating all operations and internal activities.

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The ‘new truth’ in manufacturing and supply chain – how lean and agile methods can help you succeed

Right now, manufacturers barely have time to catch their breath, never mind consider how the future may look. Manufacturers face a unique set of constraints that make the pandemic crisis particularly challenging: Factories have high sunk costs, a need for skilled labor, and complex supply chains. Even if is still possible to operate in the crisis, operations can be easily interrupted by key skilled workers being absent or supply chains being interrupted. Simply put, with that level of sunk costs coupled with a dependency on commodity pricing, operational losses can mount quickly.

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