SUPPLY CHAIN HEALTH CHECK
11 Questions to Assess where your Organization Stands.
Do you have a Strategic Sourcing Plan in place?
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Do you have a Strategic Inventory Plan?
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Do you have a Logistics Strategy and Spend Management Plan?
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Are you using third-party providers to manage Supply Chain services that are not your own core competencies?
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Are you utilizing Supply Chain technologies?
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Transportation Management System (TMS)
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Warehouse Management System (WMS)
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Labor Management System (LMS)
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Are you confident you are using the most beneficial inbound and outbound freight terms to ensure the least cost of ownership?
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Do you have a project currently to improve supplier on-time delivery?
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Do you have a process for monitoring supplier quality?
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Do you know where the bottleneck is in your order fulfillment process?
Have you developed a Value Stream Map of this process?
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Are your employees in Sales, Operations, and Supply Chain communicating on a regular basis?
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Are you measuring the Total Cost of Ownership for the materials and parts you purchase?
At Supply Chain Edge, we help companies address these and many more issues regarding their supply chain performance. Our professionals are seasoned supply chain operators with years of hands-on operating experience and deep expertise in delivering improved profits, enhancing EBITDA and augmenting enterprise value for all clients served. We accomplish this by providing the expertise, resources and strategies that take costs, complexity and non-value-added activities out of the supply chain and all of its components. We understand the importance of integrating all areas of the supply chain to maximize results and can help clients accomplish this in an accelerated fashion.