Companies that have embraced the totally different business philosophy of a demand-driven supply chain are beating the competition hands down.
Instead of relying on forecasts and reactionary planning systems, why not build products based upon actual consumer consumption? Your business will:
- Deliver only what is needed, when it is needed
- Dramatically reduce time-to-market
- Eradicate unnecessary inventory
- Provide an extremely agile response to customer demand
- Remove non-value-added infrastructure
- Provide market entry opportunities through pricing flexibility
- Reduce logistics costs
- Reduce working capital
Maine Pointe consultants help clients develop or fine-tune a Demand-Driven Value Network (DDVN) to sense changes in demand and respond to demand signals. One client improved EBITDA by $11M (5% of revenue) and reduced inventory by $19M.
Questions to Ask
- Do you dominate the market through unmatched lead times?
- Are you carrying too much inventory?
- Are your inventory turns 2-3 times greater than your best competitor’s?
- Do you want to respond faster to market changes?
- Could your supply chain be more effective?
- Do you have what you need when you need it?
- Could you optimize working capital even more?
- What role does forecasting play in creating excess inventory?
What We Do
Maine Pointe will examine your entire supply chain, from supplier to customer. We help you determine whether a demand-driven supply chain is right for your enterprise. Then we work with your business to establish processes, policies, information systems and supply chain improvements to sense changes in demand and provide an immediate response. Maine Pointe will optimize each and every practice area to increase the end-to-end supply chain velocity.
Our Guarantee
We are so confident in our ability to deliver results that we provide a 2:1 guarantee based on annualized savings.
Read a DDVN case study to learn more and then complete the adjacent form for help creating or refining your own demand-driven value network.