This function is key to the supply chain, and the main challenges are stock levels and reliable delivery schedule.
Context and challenges
Recently, the cost of raw materials and purchased products has risen sharply, accelerating the trend towards relocating activities to closer regions, liable to lower geopolitical risks.
After years of increasingly distant outsourcing of supply chains, procurement teams are having to rethink their organisation and the way they operate.
Traditionally focused on ‘zero breakage’, procurement officers are now moving more towards a strategy of risk management and flows securing.
The Axsant approach
Axsant’s support is characterised by :
- Analysis of the item portfolio and segmentation of ABC classes (and XYZ variability).
- Analysis of current stock levels according to the segmentation established, then the realistic definition of a supply policy with coverage level targets.
- Collaborative development of standard supply plans best suited to the specific characteristics of the business and the products, according to class and variability, in order to reach the stock cover objectives while securing flows.
- Recommendations in terms of internal organisation to meet the challenges of the defined policy.
- Setting up dashboards and indicators to effectively manage the supply system and its level of performance.
- Steering the transformation and implementation plan, with a resolutely constructive approach aimed at improving the maturity of each player.
