Supply Chain Optimisation Consultancy

Optimising Supply Chain performance to create value and resilience.

Supply Chain Optimisation

The only thing you can guarantee about your supply chain is that it is never perfect. There will always be things to do to streamline your end to end global service proposition. Whether it is driven by customer behaviour, supplier capability / security or advances in technology, ASCALi can help you optimise your supply chain.

Supply Chain Cost Reduction

Cutting your operating costs across your Supply Chain

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Getting to grips with cost across an extensive supply chain can be challenging yet highly beneficial for any organisation, large or small.

Our supply chain cost reduction reviews can help you to identify where and how to make savings across all of your supply chain operations. Our expert team can look at the costs of sourcing and inbounding your raw materials, your manufacturing and packaging costs, warehousing and storage for both raw materials and finished goods, and the cost of primary and secondary distribution to end customer.

Regardless of how far and wide your supply chain infrastructure is spread, our team can create the right structure to review your operations in detail and help you deliver significant cost reduction.

Demand Planning & Forecasting

Maximising availability; minimising inventories; Increasing control

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Demand planning and forecasting is an essential element of your supply chain function, and our team have years of experience in developing and delivering Planning and forecasting optimisation.

Having the confidence to predict when the demand will materialise for your products offers so many supply chain advantages. It helps with managing supplier relationships, understanding the impacts of product MOQs and lead times on your costs and service levels. It helps you work out how much warehouse space you’ll need to hold the stock you require, and it will help you establish forward how much resource you’ll need to have available to meet your demands efficiently.

It even helps with the often tricky challenge of managing cash flows and supplier payments. In short it goes to the heart of how you run your business.

Sales & Operations Planning

Connecting your Integrated Business Planning processes

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Sales & Operations Planning (or S&OP for short) is the process which integrates your periodic planning and forecasting solutions, your procurement processes and your real-time sales data to create a fully integrated inventory planning solution.

Companies with evolved S&OP processes are able to demonstrate their ability to rapidly and flexibly respond to changing variations in customer demand, and to constantly evolve ever more accurate forecasting and procurement techniques.

Our team of expert Supply Chain professionals are able to work with clients to evaluate and evolve their S&OP processes, creating lean, integrated solutions that add real value.

Supply Chain Cost Reduction Case Study

Driving significant cost savings across Europe

In this Case Study we demonstrate the ability of our team to draw upon its significant expertise and experience to deliver a large-scale cost reduction programme for a major global client. Carried out across 8 countries covering 50+ sites, this review saved over $25m annually for the client.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are you supply chain expert?
Yes, we have over 20 years experience of delivering supply, chain, optimisation, design and implementation programmes for a range of customers across the UK and Europe. We pride ourselves on our expertise to deliver the right supply chain solutions for our clients, large or small.
Can you help us with our end to end supply chain?
Yes, we can help you develop streamlined end to end solutions from point of raw material supply through manufacture to secondary and tertiary distribution and final mile delivery. Our expert team of consultants are fully conversant with achieving optimal supply chain solutions for organisations, both large and small.
Can you help us implement an ERP solution?
Yes, we can help you scope, identify and implement the right ERP solution to meet your businesses needs. We are not aligned to any one ERP vendor, and can therefore help you to establish the right solution for your needs with true impartiality.
Can you help us cut inventory?
Yes, our supply chain specialists are fully conversant in all the latest inventory management techniques to help you and your organisation get the right level of inventory to meet your customer service aspirations in the most cost-effective way. We can help you identify the correct levels of stock and safety stock based upon your network, supply base and your operating needs to ensure that you develop solutions that provide the optimal capacity to meet your customer needs as well as limit the amount of capital tied up within the business.
Can you help with integrated business planning?
Yes, we help clients, large and small develop the most streamlined methods to optimise their full business planning processes. This includes optimising the planning of entire supply chains as well as integrated intra-logistics planning solutions.

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