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What is Supply Chain Management?
A supply chain, logistics network, or supply network is a coordinated system of organizations, people, activities, information and resources involved in moving a product or service in physical or virtual manner from supplier to customer. (…) The primary objective of supply chain management is to fulfil customer demands through the most efficient use of resources, including distribution capacity, inventory and labour. (www.wikipedia.org, 01.08.2006)"Supply Chain Management coordinates all activities starting from raw material till the purchasing of the product to the customer and integrates them into a complete process including company departments as well as external partners." (Kortmann, J./Lessing, H.: Marktstudie: Standardsoftware für Supply Chain Management, ALB-HNI-Verlagsschriftenreihe, Band 3, Paderborn 200)
Areas of Expertise
- Capacity checks of suppliers.
- Definition and implementation of optimisation potentials for customers and suppliers (transport, packaging, disposition, workflow, implementation support)
- Weak-point analysis and elimination within the communication process Customer-Supplier.
- Process flow optimisation Customer-Supplier-Customer.
- Implementation of information and communication processes within international contexts.
- Optimisation of disposition processes with suppliers.
- Enhancement of supplier flexibility to follow production plans.
- Suppliers qualification.
- Supplier identification.
- Suppliers assessments/ auditing.
- Strategically supplier link-up to customers.
- Quality management at suppliers