Planning is More Than a Click of a Button

Planning is More Than a Click of a Button

Welcome to our latest Newsletter, designed to provide you with insights into supply chain optimisation and share latest industry news.

In this month's edition, we focus on helping you understand the importance of dynamic planning and scheduling, and where you would begin to bring planning, scheduling and execution together. We also focus on a latest Omni-Channel Assessment, where we saw over £300k worth of benefits.

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Dynamic Planning and Scheduling

Planning vs execution. This is an ongoing battle in many manufacturing organisations with either side blaming the other for causing long lead times, excessive work in progress, bursting finished goods stores, long changeover times, raw material shortages or missing packaging materials.

What is SPC?

The purpose of Statistical Process Control (SPC) is to achieve a desired level of quality during the course of manufacture or service by anticipating and preventing rather than detecting defects. So by controlling the production process - or the machine making the product it is possible to consistently achieve good quality products.

Assessment Case Study - UK Omni-Channel Fashion Retailer

This omni-channel UK fashion retailer saw UK store sales grow by 1.6%, internet sales grow by 30%, and wholesale decline by 42%. 3PL warehousing costs had gone up by 13.3% compared with the previous year. Consequently, the client was looking to find savings and efficiency gains throughout their supply chain to support a fresh strategy for UK stores and further expansion into overseas markets.