Success Story Supply Chain

Intelligent Supply Chain Management

Many replenishment processes can be seamlessly automated through an ERP system. To ensure lasting success and stability, it’s essential to regularly review assumptions and fine-tune system settings. Without these dynamic adjustments, inventory levels risk be-coming inefficient—driving up costs while service levels decline.

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Goals

  • Implementation of a global control and optimization strategy across all inventories and part numbers to improve stock management for a railway company and prevent internal delivery failures.
  • Integration of related processes beyond inventory management that cannot be satisfactorily automated within the ERP system.

Challenges

  • To ensure high quality and meaningful insights, seasonal patterns and external factors must be taken into account.
  • Adjustments must be seamlessly transferred directly into the ERP system.
  • Processes and workflows must be mapped across departments and areas of responsibility.
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Solution

  • Establish a stable environment for reviewing and defining all order parameters, including key steps such as Material Requirements Planning (MRP) attribute checks and MRP data validation.
  • Incorporate future planning data and forecasted stochastic demand.
  • Classify planned demand as stable or unstable through analysis of historically created MRP scenarios.
  • Support the review of essential MRP data, such as reorder points, safety stock, and lot sizes.
  • Map business-critical processes such as procurement and claim management.

Result

  • Global optimization of inventory levels combined with the mapping of numerous processes, all built on a shared information base.
  • 20 years of continuous improvement and expansion to meet new challenges.
  • Around 100 active users each month.
  • Consistent achievement of defined service or protection levels while adhering to budget limits.
  • Significant cost savings and staff relief by mapping processes beyond the limitations of the ERP system.

Your Contact

Carlos Ayala Jiménez

Carlos Ayala Jiménez

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