supply chain
Supercharge your supply chain department with our supply chain experts, who bring a blend of strategic planning and operational excellence to your team. Together, we can optimize your supply chain processes and propel your business to new heights of success.
oil & gas
Here are some key supply chain management functions performed in the oil and gas industry we can help with:
1. Securing Supply-Chain Resilience: This involves minimizing supply-chain risks to help oil and gas firms better secure their labor and materials while cutting costs.
2. Managing Supply Chain Needs: This involves proactively managing supply chain needs instead of letting external structural forces dictate imperfect solutions.
3. Category Depth, Vendor Relationship Management, and Spend Visibility: Building a resilient, cost-effective supply chain in the face of significant obstacles requires a commitment to change in these three key areas.
4. International Supply Chain Management: This involves managing the flow of goods, information, and other resources between the point of origin and the point of consumption.
5. Project Management: This involves planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives3.6. Oil Rig Movements/Re-Supply: This involves the movement and supply of oil rigs.
7. Warehouse Solutions: This involves the storage and handling of goods within a warehouse.
8. People Logistics: Efficient and effective logistics is vital to large Oil & Gas projects – equipment must be transported to work sites and raw products need to be processed and then delivered to customers, often using multiple modes of transport in a complex supply chain.
These functions are crucial for the efficient operation of oil and gas supply chain management.
power
Here are some key supply chain management functions performed in the power industry we can help with:
1. Developing a Strategy: This involves creating a comprehensive plan for managing all the resources that go toward meeting customer demand for products or services.
2. Sourcing Raw Materials: This involves identifying, evaluating, and establishing supply agreements with the most reliable and important suppliers.
3. Production: This includes all the activities and processes necessary to manufacture products at scale.
4. Distribution: This involves ensuring that the finished products reach the customers through a coordinated network of distributors, warehouses, and retailers.
5. Returns: Managing product returns for recycling or disposal is also a key function.
6. Order Processing: Any delivery process can only function if there is an order processing system in place.
7. Inventory Management: Inventory refers to stocking finished goods in a storage facility.
8. Warehousing: The warehousing function is about storing products in a warehouse.
9. Packaging: Packaging is also an important factor that protects products from being damaged while transporting.
10. Transportation Management: All logistics operations fulfill certain roles that support the movement of goods or services.
11. Supply and Demand Forecasting: Logistics management helps measure the effectiveness and accessibility of prospective distributors and suppliers.
These functions are crucial for the efficient operation of supply chain management in the power industry.
chemicals
Here are some key supply chain management functions in the chemicals industry we can help with:
1. Securing Supply-Chain Resilience: This involves minimizing supply-chain risks to help chemical firms better secure their labor and materials while cutting costs.
2. Managing Supply Chain Needs: This involves proactively managing supply chain needs instead of letting external structural forces dictate imperfect solutions.
3. Category Depth, Vendor Relationship Management, and Spend Visibility: Building a resilient, cost-effective supply chain in the face of significant obstacles requires a commitment to change in these three key areas.
4. International Supply Chain Management: This involves managing the flow of goods, information, and other resources between the point of origin and the point of consumption.
5. Project Management: This involves planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives.
6. Automatic Material Planning, Labeling, Reordering, Track-and-Trace Systems: These systems in combination with more accurate sales & operations planning improve on-time in-full deliveries at lower working capital costs and with higher customer satisfaction.
7. Controlling, IT Management, Operations and Customer Service: Major functions include controlling, IT management, operations and customer service.
These functions are crucial for the efficient operation of supply chain management in the chemicals industry.
bulk industries
Supply chain management is a complex process that involves various functions. Here are some of the key functions of supply chain management in bulk industries we can help with:
1. Procurement: This involves planning for raw materials, finding vendors, and purchasing these items at prices that will help improve profitability.
2. Manufacturing: This function involves converting raw materials into finished goods.
3. Inventory Management: This function deals with the storage of both raw materials and finished goods. It includes preparing warehouses and ensuring proper stocking to facilitate the easy movement of goods.
4. Demand Planning: This function involves forecasting the demand for products to ensure that the right amount of stock is available to meet customer needs.
5. Warehousing: Warehousing is a critical supply chain function that deals with the arrangement of suitable space for storing goods.
6. Transportation: This function provides for transporting and delivering goods to the end customer.
7. Customer Service: This function ensures that all customer queries and complaints are handled efficiently and effectively.
8. Information Systems: Software systems that integrate all supply chain processes make it easy for information to pass to customers.
These functions work together to ensure the smooth operation of the supply chain, from procurement of raw materials to delivery of finished goods to customers.