Competencies
Competencies Supply Chain Management
Supply Chain Management
The core challenge to a supply chain is the timely and efficient delivery of the correct products and services to the client – wherever they are in the world. More specifically, an optimum balance between inventories, the ability to respond and deliver, flow times, supply reliability and costs to serve is to be achieved in spite of significant demand volatility. The goal is a uniformly designed and managed supply chain which sees all participants gear their local planning processes towards company-wide optimisation. We call this supply chain excellence.
Supply chain excellence in strategy and IT
J&M Management Consulting is one of the leading providers of consultancy in the field of supply chain management. J&M combines outstanding management consultancy with innovative, results-focused IT consulting right along the corporate value chain. The implementation of modern IT infrastructure and a supply chain strategy which supports corporate goals enables companies to sustainably strengthen their competitive position. J&M SCM consulting focuses on the following issues:
- Supply chain strategy and segmentation: shift in supply chain focus towards market and process requirements; strategic development; J&M “Enabler KPI-Value-Network”; SCOR modelling, business case calculations.
- Supply chain process excellence: supply chain design; focus on maximum supply chain effectiveness; supply chain architecture; organisational and process development; inventory and flow time optimisation; transformation programmes.
- Supply chain planning: optimisation of all planning and management processes in the supply chain according to best practice approaches; implementation of required IT systems.
- Supply chain controlling: identification and measurement of key supply chain performance indicators (KPI) with corporate significance.
- Supply chain visibility and performance management: supply chain event management; real-time portrayal of operational business processes including status monitoring and early warning mechanisms.
- LEAN SCM: the concept of LEAN SCM combines LEAN management and supply chain management.
- Green SCM: assessment and optimisation of internal corporate processes related to procurement, manufacturing, transport and the management of CO2 emissions in the supply chain.
Measurable increases in supply chain performance
Every supply chain is different. Working in partnership with supply chain experts at client companies, J&M develops specific solutions which ensure increased supply chain success over the long term. A large number of J&M projects have achieved improvements, some of them substantial:
- Flexible, efficient value chains based on demand-orientated supply chain principles.
- Reductions in transport costs and increases in logistical flexibility using supply chain strategy optimisation.
- Capacity optimisation, reductions in warehousing costs, lowering of inventory levels and improvements in production planning and control.
- Flexible logistics structures and reductions in process costs using the targeted positioning of production and storage sites.
- Use of green SCM measures to create transparency where CO2 emissions from the product portfolio are concerned.
- Implementation of innovative, IT-supported planning systems for the optimisation of supply chain planning.
'The production plan drawn up in partnership with J&M allows us to manufacture on a continuous basis without losing our flexibility.'
Dr. Patrick Bosché, Head of Production, Mepha Pharma AG
'The implementation of the concept has delivered slim processes which match our requirements. We are therefore now in a position to increase supply performance and simultaneously reduce costs.'
Marcel Bühlmann, CEO, Midor AG
'This is the path that will lead us towards world-leading industrial logistics and deliver tangible competitive advantages for our clients.'
Franz-Paul Grasser, VP of Global Logistics, Siemens A&D
