Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Planning is a powerful

Supply Chain Planning is a powerful, strategic tool that integrates the various processes in your organization, helping you achieve focus and alignment among all the various functions of your company.
Supply Chain Planning is a cross functional decision making process which should be designed to reach a consensus and allocate the resources in the most effective manner to profitably meet the customer demand. It helps in closing the gaps between the forecasted annual budget and the day to day reality that organizations face during the whole year. An efficient supply chain planning process helps organizations to achieve revenue growth while improving operating margin by maintaining check over the supply chain. Once the proper Supply Planning process is achieved, next steps would be optimizing the supply chain operation model and reducing its complexity within its specific characteristics and extending the collaborative supply chain to key customers and suppliers.

Related Challenges

At CGN India, we provide solutions for end to end (Customers to Suppliers) Supply Chain Planning solutions which includes assessments, process improvements and implementations – including areas such as:

  • Strategic Sourcing - We implement enterprise wide strategic sourcing programs or across specific purchasing categories that are collaborative and have a systematic approach for dramatically reducing external spending, while improving quality, internal processes and total cost.
    • Modular Sourcing - We look at internal and external collaboration process aimed at reducing the overall supply chain costs. Assembly savings are enabled by modularity, reduced sub-assembly and main line assembly in house
    • Supplier Network Rationalization - We identify and implement a supplier network to provide the lowest total cost for the business unit/enterprise given projected manufacturing footprint, quality, delivery and flexibility targets
    • Supplier Identification & Development - We identify and develop suppliers in markets that line up with the supplier network rationalization strategy
  • Procurement Business Process Transformation - We help clients fundamentally rethink and radically redesign their core procurement business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in critical performance measures such as quality, cost, and cycle time. CGN’s proven expertise in this area ensures that the right capabilities, governance structures, and metrics are in place to drive real, sustainable change.

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