Supply Chain Needs Analysis

Bizware is unlike most contract programming firms. We have industry-proven professionals with over 50 years experience in the areas of re-engineering business processes and supply chain automation. Supply Chain Program Managers like Larry Barman and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) Peter Shikli have successfully implemented hundreds of Supply Chain programs/systems for small to mid-size manufacturing companies.

A Supply Chain Needs Analysis begins with a thorough understanding of your strategic objectives and your business priorities. We gain this insight by interviewing senior management and the individual owners of the processes. This analysis typically takes between 1-3 days, depending on the complexity of the project.

We define your as-built situation as a collection of processes that can be documented using online text and graphics. Included in the as-built model are all activities (value added and non-value added) associated with the movement of product and/or the processing of transactions. This often reveals areas for improvement such as streamlining, re-engineering, and automating the processes using online applications. All of our analysis products are presented as online documents in a collaborative format to maximize the ease of feedback (anytime and from anywhere).

We flow chart the supply chain process in terms of the movement of product over functional areas of responsibility. Then we overlay the movement of information to that flow chart. This often reveals the first-level areas for improvement such as decision nodes lacking available support data, and process controls insufficiently delegated.

Once we have defined an as-built model of a selected business process, we will develop the to-be model, which will incorporate the re-engineered supply chain process. This will eliminate areas of waste (non value activity or work) and integrate value-added features to enhance your supply chain capabilities. This can range from vendor consignment inventory programs, e-commerce solutions on the supply side, to online sales channel management on the distribution side. We have hands-on understanding of literally hundreds of leverage points to reduce cost including reducing inventories while improving customer service, improve production floor efficiency and utilization, raise quality standards, and increase sales margins. For leverage points involving emerging technology on the internet, Bizware may be the only place you will even hear of those solutions.

Because we view a Supply Chain Needs Analysis as also serving many of our first-time clients with a real-world introduction to our capabilities, we strive to make them easily affordable.

Key to the success of our approach to a Supply Chain Needs Analysis is that the work product is not just a restatement of the problem, as is common with some consultants. Our culture of implementing and automating supply chain programs insures that our work product is a realistic specification of the best-fit solution. It will have the level of specifics needed by implementers to go beyond redefining problems, which will ensure successful execution of the project.