The modern 21st century
company faces an increasingly complex, globally competitive business
environment with significant product-fulfillment and supply chain
challenges. Companies are looking for ways to meet these challenges by
uncovering and achieving sustainable year-over-year cost savings,
developing new markets, and expanding their global reach.
One area that has
generated much attention is in the optimization of several business
process areas, allowing improved planning and scheduling across a number
of business execution areas including supply, demand, production/factory
and distribution/logistics. Companies around the world are finding that
advanced optimization capabilities allow them to make more pro-active
decisions in the face of an ever-changing business and customer
landscape.
The Supply Chain /
Operations Management practice of LSM Consulting offers a suite of
planning, scheduling and optimization (PSO) solutions that help leverage
some of the opportunities in this area.
An initial diagnostic
effort is used to analyze planning/scheduling operations across a number
of business execution areas and identify opportunities for improvement
based on respective/relative performance against process, organizational
and technology focused best practices. This is typically a 6-8 week
project that provides comparative performance measures, defines a
high-level roadmap for planning/scheduling improvement, estimates the
potential benefits of these improvement projects and identifies 'quick
hit' opportunities that can deliver immediate value with minimal
investment. It also assesses potential fit for one or more of the
leading technology solutions available in this space.
The PSO solutions suite
provides follow-up performance improvement and technology-enabled
process management, and comprises the following elements:
PSO Solution
Selection. In this process we develop a
prioritized set of solutions requirements and help select and
recommend
appropriate software solutions to best address these.
PSO Assessment.
Here we
investigate the readiness of an organization for a PSO solution, from
the process, organization and technology integration / infrastructure
perspective.
PSO Implementation.
In this phase we
install and integrate your customized
technology-enabled planning / scheduling / optimization toolkit
application.
