Our approach is dynamic, inclusive and starts with a hands-on assessment of the environment that your business is facing.
We can mobilize the correct resources against the high priority initiatives that will address your Supply Chain issues and quickly and efficiently drive benefits to your bottom line. This ability comes from years of on the job experience across our team of resources – we have walked in your shoes, so we’ve seen many of the pitfalls that you are likely experiencing and are ready to help you chart a path for improvement.
No matter what discipline of the Supply Chain you need assistance with we are well suited to provide you with experienced resources with the required capabilities that meet your needs.
OUR COMPETENCIES INCLUDE:
WAREHOUSING
Whether it is securing warehouse space, identifying the best 3Rd Party Logistics providers or optimizing warehouse operations, we can work with you to drive significant savings from your warehousing operations.
TRANSPORTATION
Transportation costs account for over two thirds of the logistics spend for many CPG companies. We can work directly with your transportation teams to optimize your networks, drive down Truckload & LTL costs and improve on time delivery performance.
Supply Planning & Scheduling
Supply planning is the process of leveraging an unconstrained demand plan to develop reasonable production plans that meet the needs of your customers. Supply Planning includes both long term master production planning that insures available capacity as well as shorter term finite production schedules that factor manufacturing constraints to develop detailed daily schedules. We have deep experience in designing planning & scheduling processes and tools to help companies improve the entire supply planning process.
Demand Planning & Forecasting
Solid volume forecasting is the lifeblood of the supply chain engine. Effective demand planning processes result in highly accurate forecasts of future sales volumes. These forecasts are one of the key drivers of the Supply Planning process. We help dissect current forecasting and demand planning process to identify areas of improvement and then work with our clients to measure and improve the effectiveness of their demand plans. This leads to improved customer service levels and reduced costs.
Inventory Management
Managing working capital effectively is critical to an organizations’ success. We can help you measure your effectiveness, design appropriate inventory strategies, and optimize levels of materials, ingredients and finished goods.
Deployment
Having the right product in the right place at the right time is crucial to effectively servicing customer needs. We can ensure that your deployment processes not only service your customers but do so while properly balancing inventories and optimizing transportation costs.
Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)
S&OP is a business planning process that most companies conduct on a monthly basis to reconcile all supply, demand and new product plans at the detail and aggregate level and ties to the company’s business plan. We can help you improve the effectiveness of this process by clearly defining each process step and instituting standard approaches and reporting that ensure success over the long-term planning horizon.
Integrated Business Planning (IBP)
IBP, sometimes referred to as Advanced S&OP, is an integrated business management process through which the executive team continually achieves focus and alignment among all the functions of the organization. IBP is a more mature stage of S&OP. Leverage our experiences from implementing the disciplines of IBP. We can help you avoid many of the pitfalls that have caused companies to be ineffective in making the transition to IBP, saving resource time and money as you make the journey.
Customer Service
Getting the customer what they want, when & where they want it, at the right price. Compass Supply Chain Solutions professionals can help you to improve your processes in the areas of Order Management, Invoice reconciliation and trade unsaleables.
New Product Commercialization
The commercialization of new products is one of the most challenging processes for any company to master. Let us work with you to improve the way that you keep your teams walking in lock step through the various stage gates necessary to ensure timely and cost-effective development of new products.
Materials Management
Leveraging procurement contracts, materials management processes ensure proper levels of on-hand materials and ingredients to ensure successful flow in production operations. We can provide assistance in the set up and cleanup of bills of materials, improvement of planning, ordering and receipt processes and overall success of your materials management processes.
Customer Development
Managing effective supply chain relationships with your key customers can be a significant value addition to the relationships that you have with your customers. We can help you develop supply chain programs with your key customers that bring value and savings to both sides.
Project Management
Effective project leadership can be the difference between success and failure of a supply chain project. We can provide experienced project management professionals to help guide your teams through complicated supply chain improvement projects.
Systems Integration - SAP
Compass Supply Chain Solutions has access to a number of experienced professionals who can help guide an effective integration of SAP ERP and Warehouse management solutions for your organization. Give us a chance to show you how our experiences implementing SAP can save you time and cost for your integration.
Change Management
The best laid plans for process change and program implementation are never as effective as they can be without a complete and active Change Management Plan. Let us help you develop the best action plan possible to cover all aspects of getting your organization ready to accept the changes that you are bringing their way.
Best Practice and KPI Metric design
You only get improvement in the things that you measure. Leverage Compass Supply Chain Solutions to help you identify the key metrics and performance measures that have the most profound impact on your business. We can define the metrics, create the baselines and set up the dashboards that will help you keep a finger on the pulse of your business.