Now more than ever, agility is crucial in the industrial world to maintain market share and support customers as closely as possible to their needs.
Context and challenges
Adapting products/services and adjusting the mix, increasing or decreasing production capacities are the major challenges around which Supply Chain organisations are structured.
Planning (medium-term) and scheduling (short-term) are key activities in mastering these challenges, and are closely linked to the organisation of sales administration.
Being able to offer customers controlled lead times while controlling supply and production flows puts an industrial company in a commercially advantageous position.
As a tactical extension of S&OP, the operational processes of sales, planning and scheduling must ensure service rate in line with objectives, while optimising operating costs and stocks.
The Axsant approach
Axsant’s support is characterised by :
- Analysis of the product portfolio and marketing/distribution methods to segment and define product groups.
- Operational implementation of the capacity framework and S&OP decisions on sales and scheduling processes.
- Identifying and controlling supply and production bottlenecks.
- Seeking overall improvements in product transit times.
- Selecting and deploying specific tools interfaced with the APS, as required and adapted to the teams’ level of expertise.
- Developing and implementing dashboards and indicators to assess the performance and maturity levels of the sales and scheduling processes.
