Westernacher

Global Supply Chain Optimization

In the current dynamic market, outperforming your competition is more challenging than ever before. Offering the lowest price is no longer a guarantee for success. Companies need value-added services as differentiators that will help them retain existing customers and win new ones.

Global optimized supply chain management is fast emerging as a reliable means of realizing better business potential and increased revenues. The traditional supply chain has been segmented organizationally, inevitably leading to functional conflicts that result in delay and distortion at the interfaces. An optimized supply chain comprehensively covers every activity, process and operation that goes into the planning, sourcing, making, and delivery of a final product to the customer.

Westernacher views the supply chain as a seamless linkage of the activities and functions involved in creating a product or services, starting with your Supplier's supplier and ending with your Customer's customer. By treating the Supply Chain holistically, we help you unleash the potential of your company and improve your competitive edge.

Planning and optimization are crucial to SCM performance. To ensure the best execution, complex supply chain activities must be optimized. Critical success factors are:

Organizational analysis: We help you determine whether you can fulfill a customer’s requirements, given your capabilities and the availability of current resources, such as added value logistics and supplier capacities, and whether you can also optimize over multiple networks and activities such as transportation, warehousing and production.

An effective implementation strategy: We help you to streamline processes, improve vendor selection and management, match resources with demand, and reduce distribution costs––all resulting in an optimized supply chain. Our hands-on approach ensures that your implementation strategy goes all the way down to low-level operational details.

The right implementation partner: Leading the SCM optimization effort requires someone with the capability and experience to deliver both a technical solution and effective business process management.

Our consultants have the requisite technical and domain expertise with extensive supply chain capabilities, which include a strong grasp of cultural differences and cross-cultural nuances. We provide enterprises with on-demand solutions and services for their supply chain planning and optimization requirements. Where called for, we support our global clients with an end-to-end consulting approach that comprehensively covers strategic process, recommendations for business process design and the implementation of IT solutions most suited to their requirements.

Total end-to-end supply chain visibility and control

Westernacher collaborates with organizations to transform their supply chains, improve their bottom line and enable high performance.

To get the most out of the optimization initiative, we coordinate optimization management with SAP processes and IT infrastructure.

We concurrently use a set of proven methodologies to improve the performance of your supply chain by facilitating an integrated business effort that cuts across functional silos, uses integrated supply chain policies and processes, and supports critical supply chain capabilities.

The result is a new set of relationships that deliver optimal benefits to the supplier and the customer by improving SCM performance along with process efficiency.