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Supply Chain Network Design & Footprint Optimization

Realigning your supply chain network design and optimization to respond to demand and geopolitical dynamics whilst optimizing for service, efficiency, agility, visibility, revenue and profit

Supply chain resilience strategies

In today’s world, companies need a new approach to improve supply chain resilience in order to respond to demand and geopolitical dynamics and optimize for service, efficiency, agility, visibility, revenue and profit.

SGS Maine Pointe’s hands on approach to distribution network design in supply chain management accelerates a company’s ability to gain insights into how to strategically optimize their supply chain, build a capacity profile across their operations, embed new and accurate near real time decision support tools, align the business and then optimize for competitive advantage.

Our four-step process (1. Analyze 2. Focus & Align 3. Build, Test & Refine 4. Optimize & Scenario Plan) leverages the latest analytical, supply chain network design tools and supply chain experts to gain insights into how to strategically position inventory, distribution and manufacturing facilities across its business, and drive cultural and process change to optimize margins and achieve competitive advantage.

Our network design and manufacturing footprint optimization approach is integrated into our end-to-end supply chain and operations transformation approach called Total Value Optimization™.

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Benefits of supply chain resilience

  • Optimize the supply chain network for revenue/profit/service optimization to achieve competitive advantage

  • Gain insights into how to strategically position inventory across different geographic locations, and drive cultural and process change to optimize margins

  • Gain confidence to make the right multibillion dollar investment decisions based on risk, cost and service

  • Build a capacity profile across the organization’s existing manufacturing operations

  • Develop a multi-year demand forecast with capacity requirements across multiple geographic markets

  • Embed new and accurate decision support tool to enable near real time decisions to improve EBITDA

The Digitally Enabled Supply Chain  

The resilient, agile, digitally enabled supply chain of the future

This FAQ perspectives paper answers some frequently asked questions to help you navigate your way to a measurable, digitally-led and demand-driven future

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Network Design & Footprint Optimization Success Stories

Driving measurable and sustainable change

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Optimizing the supply chain network for revenue/profit/service optimization achieves competitive advantage.

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