Supply chain
Supply chain planning
and control
More stability and transparency in the value chain through supply chain planning & control
Today, an efficient supply chain is a key success factor for competitiveness and profitability. In practice, however, inaccurate forecasts, a lack of coordination between departments and increasing complexity often lead to inefficient processes. The consequences are declining delivery reliability, rising inventories and tied-up capital.
With integrated planning and control, you can combine demand, production and logistics into a resilient overall system. This increases transparency, improves the quality of decision-making and reduces inventories and process costs in a targeted manner. This is particularly effective in combination with Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and active complexity management.
Challenges in the supply chain
Why many supply chains fail due to structure and control
In many companies, planning and control are not sufficiently interlinked. Sales, production, purchasing and logistics work with different planning statuses and target systems. This results in inconsistencies that have a direct impact on operational performance.
At the same time, complexity is constantly increasing due to the diversity of variants and dynamic market requirements. While this is necessary to meet customer requirements, it also leads to growing complexity in processes, inventories and planning. The result: a lack of transparency, rising costs and a supply chain that can only react to changes to a limited extent. In operational reality, this often leads to short-term reactions to bottlenecks, increased coordination efforts between departments and a permanent tension between delivery capability and inventory levels. Decisions are increasingly made under uncertainty, which further reduces the ability to plan along the entire supply chain. Without integrated control, supply chains increasingly react to problems instead of proactively preventing them.
Holistic supply chain optimization
Interaction of planning, control and complexity
Sustainable optimization of your supply chain requires an integrated approach. Individual measures often fall short if central interrelationships are not taken into account. A key lever is structured, company-wide planning. As part of sales and operations planning, we systematically coordinate sales, production, procurement and financial planning. This results in realistic and resilient plans that enable the efficient use of your resources.
Complexity is also one of the biggest, but often underestimated, drivers of rising costs, inventories and decision-making effort in supply chains. Even the best planning reaches its limits when an unnecessary number of variants slows down processes, increases inventories and makes management more difficult.
Only the interplay of integrated planning (S&OP) and complexity reduction enables stability as well as measurable performance improvements in costs, inventory and delivery reliability.
Our supply chain consulting services
As part of our supply chain consulting services, we support you in all relevant areas of activity: From strategic planning to operational implementation and continuous improvement.
Sales and Operations Planning
S&OP is the central control element of integrated supply chain planning. The aim is to bring together demand, production and financial targets in a coordinated process and thus create a consistent basis for decision-making across all relevant areas.
We support you in setting up and developing your S&OP process. The focus is on the development of reliable forecasts and demand planning methods, the integration of sales, production and purchasing and the coordination of operational planning and financial targets.
Your benefit
They make decisions without conflicting objectives between sales, production and purchasing and thus create a consistent decision-making basis for planning and control.
Supply chain planning
Precise planning is the basis of every efficient supply chain. We support you in systematically coordinating demand, capacities and inventories and making decisions based on valid data.
Our services
- Development of an integrated forecasting and planning logic
- Structuring of sales and capacity planning
- Integration of relevant specialist areas
- Improving data quality as a basis for planning
Your benefit
You benefit from significantly higher forecast quality and planning accuracy, while at the same time reducing operational deviations in day-to-day business.
Supply chain management
An efficient supply chain requires effective control in day-to-day operations in order to be able to react flexibly to changes.
Our services
- Carrying out scenario analyses and simulations
- Matching supply and demand
- Identification of critical deviations
- Establishment of structured decision-making processes
Your benefit
They recognize deviations at an early stage and can take active countermeasures before operational problems arise.
Supply chain optimization
By taking an end-to-end view of the supply chain, we specifically identify potential for improvement along the entire value chain.
Our services
- End-to-end analysis of the supply chain
- Identification of bottlenecks and inefficiencies
- Optimization of inventories and throughput times
- Improving the use of resources
- Development of concrete optimization measures
Your benefit
You increase the efficiency of your value chain and sustainably reduce costs, inventories and throughput times.
Complexity management as a central lever
A key success factor for an efficient supply chain is the targeted handling of growing complexity, which results in particular from an increasing number of variants and growing requirements. Without targeted control, it not only causes higher costs, but also inefficient processes and limited decision-making ability.
We support you in systematically analyzing and specifically reducing your variant diversity. By identifying key drivers and developing clear rules and structures, we create a supply chain that remains stable and efficient despite increasing diversity.
Our approach to supply chain consulting
Structured project approach from analysis to implementation
Our projects follow a clearly structured approach that takes equal account of planning, management and complexity. The aim is not just to develop concepts, but to anchor them in the company in the long term.
1. analysis of the initial situation
Evaluation of planning processes, forecast quality, inventories and coordination logics
2. identification of optimization potential
Derivation of concrete fields of action in planning, control and complexity management
3. development of a target image
Development of an integrated target image based on S&OP
4. design of integrated processes
Coordination of demand, supply and operational implementation in clearly defined processes
5. implementation and anchoring
Support for the introduction including change management and integration into day-to-day business
Your advantages at a glance
With integrated supply chain planning and control, you can achieve:
- Less planning uncertainty thanks to integrated S&OP
- Better coordination between sales, production and purchasing
- Lower inventories without loss of delivery capability
- Greater transparency regarding demand, capacities and deviations
- Faster and more informed decisions in day-to-day business
- Lower complexity costs thanks to structured variant management
- Stable and scalable end-to-end processes
Why Rothbaum?
Supply chain excellence through integrated planning and complexity management
Rothbaum combines strategic supply chain consulting with operational implementation. We not only develop concepts, but also ensure that they work in practice in your planning and control processes.
Our strength lies in the combination of integrated planning with active complexity management. In this way, we solve precisely the disruptions that cause many supply chains to fail. Instead of isolated optimizations, we look specifically at the interactions between planning, variant diversity and operational reality. This results in solutions that not only achieve short-term effects, but also structurally improve your supply chain and make it more efficient in the long term.
Dr.-Ing. Kai Philipp Bauer
Head of Supply Chain Management
Talk to us!
Would you like to improve your supply chain planning and control and optimize your value chain in a targeted manner? Then please send me a message and I will get back to you as soon as possible.
