Total Cost Optimization

SCAPlanner offers a comprehensive supply planning capability that drives cost reduction and profitability improvement in your operations. The solution helps you develop your supply and operations strategy based upon underlying industry and cost structures and helps to manage your ongoing supply planning using your cost data.

 
The Need

Companies must deliver cost reduction, high asset utilization and flexibility in their operations for competitive success. Supply chain and operations managers need to reduce cost year over year. They must align investments with their companies' priorities to maintain or improve ROA. They must deliver on the companies' business opportunities while managing costs and risks - be it assessing support for a promotion at a target price or providing supply capability for a wide range of demand. These multiple goals sometimes create trade-offs and the managers must present the trade-offs to their sales department early.

 
The Solution

Supply chain teams need to plan with a forward looking business process using the underlying cost structure information of their supply chain capabilities. Such a framework along with the impact on enterprise cost of alternatives available enables cost reduction. This business processes will enable timely response to changing business conditions. A forward looking framework that builds on the capabilities allows managers to layer changing demand and supply events. By anticipating the capability needs and costs, they can better manage the supply chain choices. The solution can be used to provide flexibility by responding to demand opportunities as they come up. They can respond to product introduction challenges, promotion capability for cost targets. They can integrate their initiatives on a platform that aligns their supply chain goals and measure the cost impact. The framework also drives capacity and investment evaluation for highest returns.

 
The Benefits
  • Cost reduction through optimal assignments for supply
  • Cost optimal investment planning and ROA from investments
  • Measure and manage your underlying performance drivers

"SCA's supply chain strategy solutions is a powerful tool that optimizes the true cost of supply. By using this tool, we have not only reduced our costs but have also understood the value drivers of our production and operations"
Director of Operations, National food manufacturer

 
Solution Details
  • Configurable solution to capture industry structure and strategies
  • Integrate with your enterprise system
  • Web based solution allows easy business process deployment