IMPROVE YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN EFFICIENCY & PERFORMANCE

Business workflow / Photo credit from Burst

WHAT IS SUPPLY CHAIN CONSULTING?

We help clients review their processes and workflows relating to their Supply Chain from the beginning to the end.

We see the beginning and end like this:

•  Ordering/Replenishment
•  Purchasing
•  Payments
•  Receiving
•  Storing
•  Warehouse layout
•  Sales Channels
•  Methods of payment •  Pick/pack/dispatch
•  KPI’s
•  Stocktakes
•  Accounting
•  3PL
•  Delivery Barcodes – how you utilise to gain efficiencies

LAPTOP FROM ABOVE / Photo by Matthew Henry from Burst

WHAT IS INVOLVED

We work closely with our clients, using best practice, and develop policies and procedures or simply provide advice and direction on how best to manage their supply chain.

When is Custom Integration Relevant? Photo by Matthew Henry from Burst

AN EXAMPLE OF TYPICAL SUPPLY CHAIN DISCUSSIONS

Conversions from inventory management system Tradegecko to Cin7.

We can provide advice on:

•  Best practice
•  How are we going to do rolling stock take?
•  What is the most effective approach to managing products within a warehouse?
•  What systems will be fit for purpose? – talking through the process, defining what the result would look like.

WAREHOUSE Photo by Shopify Partners from Burst

EXAMPLES OF SUPPLY CHAIN SOLUTION WE WORK WITH

We like to work with a handful of freight, shipping and warehousing solutions that are reliable and have good value for our customers, this also ensures we remain expert in working with the systems that they connect with and that we can train our clients on.

Shipping Solutions include: Go SweetSpot; eShip; Starshipit; First Global, CourierIt, PBOne, Mainfreight 

Freight Solutions include: Mainfreight

Third party Logistics solutions:Cargowise, online Distribution, 3PL Central, Mainfreight, First Global

Software Support / Photo by: Sarah Pflug

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?

Continuous improvement to create efficiencies are always favourable for our clients, where they can save time and money.

This provides them room to assess where their business is heading with a compelling story to back their decisions.

Laptop for system integrations //  Matthew Henry from Burst

KEY REASONS FROM A CUSTOMER PERSPECTIVE INCLUDE

•  Return on Investment (ROI) on systems
•  Getting the best value with optimal use
•  Stock accuracy – knowing where everything is
•  Customer Service – an enjoyable interaction
•  Customer Experience – keeping customers returning
•  Safety – warehouse layout, forklift practices
•  Scalability - to identify there are opportunities to improve efficiencies to turn over more volume of orders.