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Supply Chain Pillar Solutions




Applied Expertise
has a well developed and structured approach

Supply Chain Portfolio Analysis

Rationale

  • Growing numbers of customers and products add complexity and cost to the Supply Chain.
  • Adopting the same approach for every customer and product drives up the "cost to serve" and lowers "customer satisfaction"

SCPA Purpose

  • SCPA is a tool designed to provide insight and guidance on the appropriate Supply Chain Strategies for customers and products

Objective

  • To be more effective at servicing the right customers with the right products profitably

Emphasis

  • To facilitate a cross functional approach to evaluating customers and products

Benefits:

  • SCPA helps focus everyone on the strategic customers and products driving profitable growth
  • SCPA identifies approaches to simplifying customer and product complexity including; standardisation, outsourcing and elimination
  • By simplifying Supply Chain complexity both direct and indirect costs can be reduced, inventory lowered and customer service improved

Using TACR

  • Supply Chain Design - optimise the Supply Chain
  • Combat margin erosion
  • Customer service improvement
  • Applied Expertise have a tried and tested methodology:

Applied Expertise's Supply Chain Portfolio Analysis