Business Process Re-engineering
Processes are the engines that drive businesses. While there are a general set of ‘best practices’ in baseline business process in the supply chain planning area, each business has unique ‘DNA’ that requires the processes to be configured to support contractual relationships with customers, suppliers, distributors and partners.
Plan4Demand specializes in understanding how to best design, optimize or re-engineer business processes that often deteriorate or become obsolete as the business experiences market condition challenges. In addition, processes require detailed documentation and training and communication plans in order to scale and to enable sustainable change. Primary Process Focus is:
- Demand Planning and Forecasting
- Supply Planning and Inventory Optimization
- Distribution and Replenishment Planning
- Master Planning
- Production Planning and Scheduling
- Capacity Planning
- Sales and Operations Planning
- Logistics Planning
These vital processes can cost the company millions of dollars in profit if not optimized and maintained consistently to address market changes. It is important to keep in mind that processes are used by people. Therefore, any process changes require “change management” of some kind on the people front. These changes can also impact how the technology is configured as well.
