Supply Chain
Supply chain resilience
We create flexible and resilient supply chains with resilient supply chain management
Resilient supply chains face a variety of challenges: On the one hand, global supply problems put a strain on supply chains, especially in times of crisis. Fluctuations in demand also prevent precise planning. On the other hand, environmental events cause production downtimes and disruptions in transportation disrupt processes. A resilient supply chain therefore depends on intact supplier management.
We support companies in successfully overcoming these challenges by creating a resilient supply chain. Resilience refers to the ability of a supply chain to independently restore its original state despite disruptive factors and to react agilely to changes. Supply chain resilience thus inhibits disruptions and prevents disruptive factors from affecting other components of the value chain. By focusing on operations, we develop specific and efficient measures for resilient supply chains that can be implemented immediately. This enables companies to minimize the risks in their supply chain and increase delivery reliability and thus customer satisfaction.
Supply chain resilience analysis
Create transparency in your supply chain
A resilient supply chain enables you to react quickly to disruptions throughout your entire value chain and to minimize their impact. You strengthen the resilience of your supply chain by making your company’s structures, processes and systems in procurement, production, distribution and planning adaptive and robust. Do you know how resilient your supply chain currently is?
We answer this question and show you how you can effectively create more resilient supply chains. To do this, we examine the robustness of your supply chain in a resilience analysis. Processes and structures are examined in detail, transparency about your status quo is created and potentials and fields of action are identified. As a result of the analysis, you will receive a roadmap that shows the optimal path to greater resilience in work packages that can be implemented.
Service packages
- Development of a common understanding of resilience
- Transparency about the status quo of your resilience
- Strategic roadmap
Your benefit:
- Methodological approach in the Rothbaum Resilience Framework
- Directly implementable action steps to efficiently and quickly increase your resilience and improve supplier management
Dr.-Ing. Kai Philipp Bauer
Senior Manager Supply Chain Management
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Would you like to strengthen resilience in your supply chain and improve your supplier management? Then please send me your message and I will get back to you as soon as possible.
Resilient procurement and supplier management
Avoid delivery failures.
The aim of resilient procurement is to ensure the supply of materials even under difficult and unforeseen environmental conditions. The following questions are relevant here: How is your supplier network structured? Are you dependent on individual suppliers or regions? Can disruptions disrupt your supply chain?
We examine potential risks and create flexible structures in procurement as well as targeted redundancies. To this end, we analyze your product structures and supplier network, establish effective risk management and develop risk-minimized sourcing strategies. In this way, we lay the foundation for flexible and resilient procurement.
Service packages
- Supplier management
- Sourcing Strategy
- Product Mining
- Risk management
- Digital Twin supplier network
Your benefit:
- Increase in material availability
- Flexible procurement network
- High reaction speed
Resilient value creation
Production losses are a thing of the past.
The manufacturing units are the heart of your company. This is why a high level of resilience is particularly important here. After all, resilient structures in the value chain guarantee consistent and reliable production under changing conditions. Do you know how your production system is set up? Can you adequately compensate for downtimes and failures? Are you able to flexibly adapt the production program within the network?
To ensure reliable production despite uncertainties, we analyze your value creation network in detail. On this basis, we then implement robust production structures from the production cell to the factory. To this end, we identify bottlenecks and uncertainties in your production, develop appropriate countermeasures and reduce the risk of production downtime. We develop specific strategies for more flexible production in order to quickly and agilely circumvent or counter disruptions.
Service packages
- Risk assessment
- Digital Twin value creation
- Production strategy
- Product Mining
- Process Mining
Your benefit:
- Flexibilization of production
- Avoidance of production downtimes
Resilient distribution
Provide your customers with consistently reliable service.
Distribution ensures that customers are supplied in line with the market with warehouses, inventories, transportation and transshipment points. A consistently high level of service is therefore required to ensure the success of the company. However, distribution is subject to constant change and numerous internal and external influences. Resilience in distribution therefore lays the foundation for high delivery reliability and customer satisfaction.
In order to create the most robust distribution possible, we therefore address these key questions: How can you efficiently manage peaks in demand? And what structures and precautions are necessary to efficiently prevent delays and delivery failures? By using proven methods and state-of-the-art technologies, we develop suitable conceptual and operational solutions for resilient distribution.
Service packages
- Transportation management
- Digital Twin distribution network
Your benefit:
- Securing the ability to deliver
- Virtual testing of operational countermeasures
Resilient planning and control
Stay in control.
A high level of resilience in planning and management also enables companies to react independently and robustly to changes. The fundamental question is therefore: how do you react optimally to disruptions? A scenario-based, cyclical approach to planning and adaptive control processes form the basis for this.
We enable the planning and management of your supply chain to develop, continuously adapt and implement efficient schedules within the supply chain under changing conditions. In order to develop such resilient supply chains, we establish data-based planning methods, integrate stress test simulations to evaluate scenarios and develop self-controlling supply chain structures. This enables you to react agilely, quickly and proactively to disruptions with the optimal measures.
Service packages
- Digital Twin for stress test simulation
- Supply Chain Control Tower
- Sales & Operations Planning
- Process Mining
Your benefit:
- Specifications for optimal planning and control
- Transparent supply chain
- Data-driven decision-making
