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Cayuga Partners' Supply Chain Innovation
Program™ uses a combination of software, coaching,
and education to enhance how your management team thinks
about supply chain operations, objectives and tradeoffs.
Cayuga Partners' Supply Chain Model empowers
senior executives, along with their strategic planning
and financial management teams, to rapidly create and
evaluate alternative decisions. Sensitivity analyses can
also be performed for ongoing improvement initiatives
to monitor, prioritize and budget projects.
The Supply Chain Model enables you to define
specific scenarios that model your company's operating
environment and supply chain attributes. These scenarios
detail specifications for any number of suppliers, plants,
distribution locations, and customers. Product and raw
material relationships are specified through a multi-tier
bill of materials; processing capacities, yields, storage
capacities, and lead times are defined for individual
resources. Multiple modes of transportation may also be
specified. Seasonality in demand, labor availability,
facility shutdown and holiday schedules can be input through
detailed time schedules. Uncertainty in equipment availability,
lead times, and customer demand are considered to assess
risk.
Using the Supply Chain Model, the consequences
of operating policies and decision rules on overall system
performance can be readily tested and evaluated. For example,
interactive modeling scenarios enable you to see the potential
impact of:
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Adding or removing capacity
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Operating policies and
planning
system changes |
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Strategic sourcing initiatives |
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Corporate reorganizations |
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Promotions affecting your manufacturing,
distribution and logistics systems
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Sourcing, production, and distribution
network restructuring |
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Partnerships and collaboration with
your distribution channel or suppliers
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Numerous other decisions that improve
your supply chain's performance |
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Mergers and acquisitions |
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Once a supply chain scenario
is defined, the Supply Chain Model simulates the
results of decision-making, providing insight into how your
supply chain is likely to perform under various operating
conditions. A financial model is superimposed to measure the
profit and cost implications of contrasting scenarios, providing
a means to compare competing supply chain improvements in
economic terms.
Cayuga Partners will help you develop, and learn to use, the
Supply Chain Model to save thousands of management
hours by compressing the time available for evaluating alternative
decisions and strategies. Remove the mystery and ambiguity
behind how your supply chain behaves as a consequence of the
strategic, tactical, and operational decisions you make. The
Supply Chain Model provides a risk-free environment
for your management team to ask, test, evaluate and answer
the questions they have about strategic supply chain transformation
initiatives. It will help you change your business . . . for
good!
For more information, please call us at 908-281-6168 fax 908-874-5353,
or email us at info@cayugapartners.com
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