Supply Chain Strategy & Optimization

Supply Chain Strategy & Optimization with ebSixOne is designed for organisations where production, inventory, and logistics are tightly interlinked, particularly in manufacturing and the food industry. We start by clarifying your end‑to‑end value chain-how demand is created, how it is fulfilled, and where volatility or waste appears.

From this baseline, we conduct demand planning and forecasting work that blends historical patterns, commercial insight, and system capabilities. The aim is practical: a forecast and planning rhythm that your planners, sales teams, and production leads can trust and use every day. Inventory optimisation consulting then targets working capital and service levels. We analyse item and location profiles, lead times, and variability, and translate this into realistic targets, safety stock policies, and replenishment rules. Clients typically see lower stockholding with fewer stockouts, rather than trading one problem for another.

Logistics process improvement focuses on how materials and finished goods move through warehouses, transport, and distribution networks. We review picking methods, loading sequences, transport planning, and handoffs with 3PLs, identifying concrete changes that shorten lead times and cut handling costs.

Because suppliers are often an extension of your own operations, supplier relationship management is integrated into the design. We help you define performance metrics, collaboration models, and escalation paths, so that supplier discussions are based on facts rather than anecdote.

For SAP users, we can embed these designs in the system through SAP SCM module training and configuration guidance, ensuring that planning parameters, MRP runs, and logistics execution reflect your agreed strategy. SCM performance metrics analysis closes the loop, with dashboards and KPIs that show where the supply chain is improving and where further work is needed.

The result is a supply chain strategy that is not a slide deck but an operating model-one that stands up to seasonal peaks, demand shocks, and regulatory constraints, whether your plants sit near Houston or across multiple regions.