About A&M
Simplification
In today’s economy, customers have limitless options, and satisfying their demands with responsive fulfillment of products or services is an on-going challenge. To maintain a competitive edge, it is critical to evaluate and, in some cases, proactively reduce complexity in your supply chain.
Complexity often results from years of business evolution and deliberate policy action, and can increase over time with reactive responses to competition. The first step in maximizing your manufacturing, distribution and service operations is to assess your organization’s level of complexity and ensure that any incremental complexity adds value. Because there is seldom one solution to reducing complexity, you need to tackle an interrelated group of issues with focused and dedicated efforts.
A&M Supply Chain professionals will help you identify the key drivers of operational complexity such as number of SKUs, types of packaging, configurations of products and services, raw materials, inability to meet demands, and number of service lines offered. We also identify gaps in standards to improve customer profitability, and work with your team to develop a fact-based sales and operations plan to more efficiently manage your resources. Our approach involves a deep understanding of the products and services you offer, associated costs, your supply chain constraints, and the desired and achieved service levels. Our goal is to help your organization drive profit improvements by quickly and efficiently meeting customer preferences and demands.
Our experienced team has helped countless organizations to identify the levers of complexity and make informed decisions to simplify, rationalize or redefine the pricing of various products and services.
A&M’s Simplification services include:
- Product and customer profitability assessments
- Product and customer segmentations
- Complexity driver analyses
- Identification of cost components
- Product and service sourcing
Also see our Manufacturing Optimization services.