Manufacturing is undergoing exceptional growth in Asian and this provides both challenges and rewards. The challenge is to build and optimise supply chains producing more for less to outperform competitors and lift profits in a global marketplace.

How we can help

Craig Abraham is an expert supply chain consultant with 15 years consulting experience that can help you overcome challenges and transform your supply chain into an effective value-add proposition. Key services offered are:

Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) Review

An S&OP Review will:

• Reveal your supply chains’ potential and how to achieve it.
• Examine your current processes and performance.
• Identify process gaps, issues and root causes and provide effective time and money saving solutions.
• Quantify the potential value of improvements and provide road maps to deliver this value.
• An S&OP Review will cover S&OP, demand planning, finished goods inventory, supply & distribution planning, factory planning and scheduling, raw and packaging materials inventory, MRP and purchasing.

Typical areas for value adding include higher customer service, lower inventory, less waste and reduced “fire fighting”.

In a recent S&OP Review for a $160M food manufacturer in a developing market, significant opportunities were identified including:

• Improved capability to support 15% growth pa,
• 98% customer service, and
• 35% reduction in materials inventory – saving $4.8M USD in working capital.

An S&OP Review can be completed in 6 weeks depending on the size and complexity of the business.

Implementing Supply Chain Improvements

Craig has 15 years experience implementing supply chain improvements and managing projects for clients. His portfolio includes planning system implementations, new processes, procedures and work instructions, reports and KPIs, project management of major changes to manufacturing and distribution footprints, and training and coaching of staff.  Examples of value delivered for clients includes:

• $12M pa saving in contract manufacturing costs for Asia Pacific retail supplier in China.
• $900k reduction in FG inventory (50%) for consumer packaged goods supplier.
• > 95% customer service DIFOT and FG inventory > 20 turns for component manufacturer in China.
• Forecast accuracy improved from 45% to 70% for global manufacturer and distributor with over 2,500 active skus being sold in 13 selling regions.
• “Out of stocks” reduced from 85 to 18 in 6 weeks for consumer packaged goods business.
• 76% reduction in Make To Order lead times for Australian manufacturer.
• Successful $11M global brand changeover completed in 3 months for retail garment supplier.
• 10M manufacturing acquisition and integration completed in 3 months.

Improve your supply chain now

If you want to get more out of your supply chain then call me on 0438 391 835 or send me via email, and we can discuss you needs.