Supply Chain Planning & Optimization
Supply Chain
MetaChain understands that the supply chain is an ever important ingredient in today's unforgiving marketplace where companies compete no longer on just the basis of products and product differentiation, but more and more on agility, speed, and customer satisfaction. Our history and success are based on our ability to understand our clients’ business requirements and on our track record of providing clients with the necessary leadership, education, and proven implementation skills to make a solution work in the real world. MetaChain is a proven leader in the industry and is ready to help you realize the full potential of your supply chain. The supply chain analysis determines if supply chain improvements could be achieved by business process changes, supply chain studies or a supply chain software implementation.
MetaChain helps customers with their business process design and execution. Here are some different aspects that could be addressed:
Business Process
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Process Redesign MetaChain helps clients envision transforming their supply chain from an obstacle into a competitive advantage and a key tool in achieving the company's strategic vision. MetaChain will also help identify concrete savings that can be achieved. We will work with you to develop the business processes that will allow you to execute your supply chain strategy and cash in on the savings and profits generated by your supply chain. MetaChain's supply chain experts are experienced in the realities of software implementations and running a supply chain, they realize that your strategy and processes need to be executed by real people working with real systems. |
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Supply Chain Strategy MetaChain helps customer to determine their supply chain strategy. A lot of companies first focus on cost reduction. However company executives are calling for revenue growth. MetaChain can help developing a strategy with revenue growth focus instead of a pure cost cutting focus. |
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Supply Chain Transformation MetaChain help customers in their demand-driven supply chains where the supply chain is driven based on forecast information. |
In addition MetaChain could help with the strategic, tactical and operational decision-making process. Here are some issues that were addressed in the past:
Strategic Planning
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Capacity Allocations MetaChain helps clients to rapidly calculate order delivery dates based on capabilities and constraints in a multi-site enterprise. These strategic capacity allocations are also used for the tactical and operational planning cycles. |
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Global Trade Management MetaChain helps client to professionalize their global trade management processes. Risk management of global trade is important because of the increased risk of global sourcing and the implications of disruptions in the supply chain. Simulation environments are used to optimize profit margins in global supply chains. |
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Optimize Supply Chain Networks MetaChain helps clients to optimize their supply chain networks. This includes but is not limited to optimal raw material sourcing, manufacturing, vehicle loading, and deployment plans across all sites. |
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Plan Pre-Builds MetaChain helps clients to determine optimal build quantities. These planned pre-builds are based on future demand requirements. Products need to be produced earlier when sufficient production capacity is available to satisfy future demand. |
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Price and Revenue Optimization MetaChain supports clients in their price and revenue optimization efforts. This is used when products are priced differently across multiple regions. This optimization is also used to enable efficient pricing for huge number of products. |
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Product Sourcing MetaChain helps to determine the right sourcing strategy for your company. These sourcing recommendations are determined based on costs and lead times and are used through the whole supply chain from supplier to customer. |
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Rationalize Business Combinations MetaChain’s service offerings include scenario management. These scenarios could be used for business combinations by determining possible synergies in the supply chain. These synergies could lead to higher service levels, decreased transportation costs or others. |
Tactical Planning
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Collaboration Today's competitive, fast-paced environment, with emphasis on real time response to customer needs, has increased the need to optimize both individual supply chains and supply chain communities of suppliers, manufacturers, and customers. Companies and supply chain communities need to shorten planning cycles and design flexibility into supply chain processes and systems. Companies need to enable their supply chains to compete in the marketplace. MetaChain is helping its clients by leveraging supply chain expertise, along with proven ability to bring new software technology to successful implementation to take advantage of new ways of doing business. Whether you are a retailer struggling with fulfillment of online orders, a manufacturer who wants to generate increased profits through VMI and collaborative commerce with your supply chain partners, or a broker needing to synchronize the supply chains of buyers and sellers, MetaChain can help you use your supply chain as a competitive advantage in the marketplace. |
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Logistics Cost Reduction Increasing fuel prices have led to increased transportation costs. MetaChain helps clients to benchmark these costs and developing a cost control strategy. Based on the business there are multiple possibilities for logistics cost reduction. MetaChain will develop different strategies including “real dollar” amounts to reduce logistics costs. |
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One-Number Planning MetaChain helps clients to achieve a one-number planning approach for financial and supply chain related matters. Using this approach all business units are using identical forecast information. In this case a financial long term plan could be compared with an inventory plan. The sales and operational planning enables companies to see financial impacts based on production and distribution plans. |
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Safety Stock Calculation MetaChain helps to predict and plan future demand and safety stock with statistical and collaborative forecasting processes. The safety stock should be re-evaluated on a regular basis. |
Operational Planning
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Detailed Production Schedule MetaChain helps clients to create detailed, constraint-based factory production schedules and material plans. These production schedules are the basis for the shop floor and could be adapted immediately if operational changes occur. |
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Detailed Distribution Schedule MetaChain helps clients to develop detailed distribution schedules that are used to schedule truck fleets that are customer owned or outsourced. These distribution schedules are the basis for the fleet management system. |
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Vehicle Loading MetaChain helps clients to determine the optimal vehicle loading in terms of weight, volume and quantity of products. The vehicle loading optimization is used for in-house fleets or other common carriers like plan, ship or train. |
