Supply Chain Management

Excellence along your supply chain

These days companies around the world are faced with the challenges of having to respond more quickly to market requirements, improving customer service and raising efficiency. Supply chain management is the focus of these challenges and ensures the efficient integration of suppliers, producers, distributors and retailers so that goods are provided in the right quantities, at the right locations and at the right time.

Wassermann AG is considered an innovator in modern supply chain management and a leading consultancy for this issue. The focus is on the integrative approach to sustainably optimising the material and information flow from the supplier to the final consumer. The SCM consulting focus areas at Wassermann AG are:

Supply chain strategy

Developing a supply chain strategy that matches your competition strategy. This includes internal and cross-company logistics and production systems, establishing and implementing the resulting requirements for the supply chain processes procurement, production, distribution and planning whilst considering current opportunities arising from innovative information systems.

Supply chain planning

Clear planning principles, the preliminary elimination of bottlenecks, a process-oriented corporate organisation and complete transparency and communication within the company are the basis for modern supply chain planning. The use of efficient and standardised information systems such as SAP and the way solutions offered by Wassermann AG provides complete and high performance planning and management for all value-added steps in a company.

Supply chain controlling

The calculation and measurement of the right key performance indicators (KPI) for the company in the supply chain is a requirement for successful supply chain management and the indicator of your company's performance. Business intelligence solutions ensure effective KPI monitoring.

Optimising stocks

Securing liquidity by reducing working capital has become a key issue for many companies. By creating stock transparency and an efficient and sustainable approach, our experienced consultants support our customers in improving their stocks across the whole supply chain.

Operational excellence

What comes after the Toyota production system? – operational excellence. The optimisation of a supply chain must focus completely on the value-added process and its internal and external interfaces. Starting from the "place of activity" where value is added, we pragmatically and with an implementation focus develop a cross-interface end-to-end value-added system alongside you.

Cost to serve

The Wassermann AG "Cost2Serve" approach is an efficiency increase programme along the interfaces of the supply chain. The focus is on the ideal balance between supply chain costs and the necessary service level in the FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods) supply chain. The potential for reducing supply chain costs arises from better synchronisation of the customer orders with production (pull principle), the alignment of the production to a consistent small batch production strategy, the introduction of continual improvement methods using the lean principle and improved communication between the supply chain partners.