High Performance Distribution
How has your utilization and cost-to-serve changed over time?
Managing facilities in a static fashion creates inefficiencies in a distribution network driving up labor costs, under-utilization of space and inventory, and excessive transportation costs. To determine what the right solution is for your situation, numerous questions must be answered. Does the inventory profile today or in the future synch up well with the material handling equipment in place? Is the inventory deployed relative to customer demand? Are inventory levels optimized based on relative lead times, transportation and other cost factors?
Further distilling the various analyses into a cost/benefit model is critical to evaluate the relative payback to support decision making.
At Chainnovations, we provide a menu of services to help clients identify and prioritize what opportunities exist for increasing the overall effectiveness of their network:
- Inventory profiling and material handling review
- Network optimization
- Operation and process review
- Inventory management
- Warehouse and facility design
- Transportation review