Supply chain management (SCM) is the management of the flow and storage of goods, services, raw materials, capital and information between businesses and locations to maximize customer value and gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
Plan and oversee all resources necessary to meet customer demand for a company’s product or service. Determine metrics to measure whether the supply chain is efficient, effective, beneficial to customers base and meets company objectives.
Select suppliers to offer goods and services required to produce the product. Then, develop processes to monitor and oversee supplier interactions. Key practices include ordering, receiving, managing inventory, and approving supplier expenditures.
Coordinate the events necessary to receive raw materials, manufacture the product, test for quality, package for shipping and schedule for delivery.
Schedule customer orders, dispatch loads, deliveries, invoice customers and collect payments.
Create a process to receive excess, unwanted, or defective products.
The basic tenets of supply chain management have significantly evolved. The wide-spread adoption of ERP systems has emphasized the demand for more precise planning strategies and more effective production cycles in many industries. The growth and interest in emerging markets have prompted companies to reevaluate how they manage complex partner networks and allocate resources and job scheduling on a global scale.
The integration of technologies has resulted in the incorporating various supply chain responsibilities, duties, and functions for enhanced end-to-end (E2E) visibility and agility across the entire value chain. In addition, the most successful companies have realized an effective SCM strategy means involving the C-suite to help align priorities from the boardroom to the production floor.
Efficient supply chain management systems reduce cost, salvage goods and decreases time in the production cycle. In today’s retail industry sales routinely signal replenishment orders to manufacturers. This function is attributed to inventory “Reorder Points”. Retail shelves can then be restocked virtually as swiftly as product is sold. Further improvement on this process is to analyze the data from supply chain partners to determine where additional upgrades can be implemented.
When supply unsuccessfully meet demand expectations, buyers have a legitimate grievance regarding the poor service. Through data analysis, manufacturers can anticipate the shortage before the buyer is disappointed.
During the conclusion of every product season shelf life, goods are habitually discarded or sold at a much less discounted price. Cruise lines, hotels, and others with perishable “products” typically adjust prices dynamically to meet demand. By employing analytic software, similar forecasting techniques can improve margins, even for hard goods.
Analytical software tools dynamically improve the allocation of resources and schedule work based on the sales forecast, actual orders and guaranteed delivery of raw materials. Manufacturers can validate product delivery dates when the order is assigned, significantly reducing inaccurate orders.
Continuously improve forecast accuracy, collaboration, and end-to-end visibility with flexible and resilient supply chain planning, manufacturing, and execution. Drive process efficiency while managing costs with integrated, advanced technologies that help you adapt to changing conditions.
Harness customer experience, operational, machine, and product data to predict trends, model scenarios, and plan effectively. Drive faster innovation, quickly adjust plans and forecasts, improve decision-making, and align supply chain execution to outpace transformation.
Foresee disruption and circumvent to facilitate 360 visibility, continuous collaboration, while decreasing cost and risk.
Exceed customer expectations through perfect orders and properly allocated service with a unified solution for sales, service, and supply chain management. Plan, work, and collaborate more effectively with social, mobile, and remote access anytime, anywhere.
Foster excellence with intelligent workflows highlighted by AI, IoT and blockchain technologies.
Accelerate innovation by unifying people, processes, and technology with 360 precision.
Develop and align market-driven plans with supply chain visibility, collaboration, and intelligence.
Streamline manufacturing with artificial intelligence, the IoT, and integration across the enterprise.
Operate rapid, cost-effective, and sustainable logistics and supply chain management processes.
Improve asset performance and reliability with intelligent enterprise asset management.
Decrease cost related to supplier qualification, validation, and lifecycle management. Our SCM resources and experience can reduce reduction in supplier acquisition costs.
Sisco provides a robust portfolio of on-premises or cloud supply chain solutions. Our portfolio assists customers to review and utilize different SCM platforms on a trial basis to solidify assurance regarding price, requirements, and functionality. In addition, the portfolio allows organizations to confirm POC on different SCM platforms to seamlessly align risk management, business continuity, vendor management, and corporate strategy with certainty.
Our SCM portfolio is comprised of an assortment of industry leading applications, integrations, and services for global enterprises such as SAP, Oracle, AWS, IBM, Microsoft to smaller systems. In addition, some of our SCM platforms can support integrated modules that can be used separately or in combination. You can begin with multiple modules or the full suite, most data and information sharing capabilities can be integrated, customized, or developed.
Achieve swifter and better results by planning your supply chain end-to-end in the cloud. Smoothly integrate insights, supply restrictions, and stakeholder feedback. Employ integrated machine learning, industry-specific AI models and proprietary data sources to improve profitability, while accelerating customer experience. Sisco can assist various aspects of your workflow automation to develop intelligent preemptive planning.
Global supply chain leaders have been forced to primarily revisit outdated ways of utilizing their workforce. Sisco can advance your supply chain processes into intelligent workflows, to achieve greater degrees of responsiveness and improvement. Our supply chain management professionals will develop a comprehensive assessment of your supply chain, current technology, business requirements and strategic goals.
Our market intelligence, partners and additional resources will assist you to identify and control risks that could impact your global supply chain. Sisco will discover or enhance insights, innovative strategies, and supply chain management best practices. Our services will foster next-level performance and value from your supply chain.
The benefits of Sisco supply chain consulting will allow companies to obtain analytical insights to make smarter decisions, select the appropriate partners, precisely forecast, and react to market challenges, decrease supply chain disruptions, and most of all… we will improve the company’s bottom line.
We develop and implement more cost-effective solutions to eliminate wasteful spend and reducing overhead costs. Efficient supply chain management has immediate and secondary effects that support the effective, seamless flow of information, goods, and services from procurement through transport to final delivery.
Sisco's ability to merge our robust supply chain portfolio, global resources, a rich knowledge base of supply chain best-practice methodologies and extensive experience into highly effective, customized solutions makes us the ideal organization to collaborate with on your supply chain reinvention.
Sisco will employ an expansive global leadership network, commodity, and supply chain market intelligence capabilities. Which will provide the right mix of planning, technical expertise, specific resources to connect the strategy and design to ensure that your supply chain reaches its full potential.
Our supply chain consulting services assist clients build resilient, agile, and sustainable supply chains for the global marketplace.