Supply chain management and logistics

Today, supply chain management (SCM) processes need to be capable of meeting a variety of challenges:

• Difficult requirements forecasting
• Increasing item diversity
• Ever shorter product lifecycles
• Lean production systems
• Worldwide networks

Using the experience garnered in numerous projects for optimizing the design of the logistics chain and associated information management, ROI takes a holistic SCM approach. This means: optimizing information and materials flows both within the company and those crossing company boundaries. The approach enables substantial potentials to be realized, even in highly efficient companies.

In view of ever longer and more complex supplier chains, SCM projects need to take into account not only the classic objectives of cost, time, and quality but also, and in particular, the constantly increasing requirements for security.

Over-stretched infrastructures, critical effects of JIT production principles, purchasing, and procurement around the world, and a variety of security rules that are difficult to manage all increase the risk that supply chains will break.

ROI is one of the first management consulting firms in Europe to make a point of addressing supply chain security and management of supply chain risk as an integral component of SCM.

• Developing a supply chain strategy
• Creating planning systems
• Creating transparency through supply chain controlling
• Application of IT systems in the supply chain
• Achieving a lean supply chain
• Implementing holistic procurement management
• Designing global logistics networks
• Optimizing distribution
• Managing supply chain risk
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