Supply Chain Management Consulting

Supply chain management consulting is our primary area of specialization.

Altemir Consulting can help resolve your challenges as an extended part of your team whether you are seeking to optimize raw material purchasing and inventory at a single site or need to balance complex supply chains that span multiple geographies.

Altemir Consulting provides hands-on supply chain management consulting aimed at:

• Reducing past-due backlogs
• Reducing lead times
• Improving on-time shipments
• Increasing production rates
• Reducing operating efficiency
• Increasing customer satisfaction
• Reducing daily struggles

Our supply chain management consulting services include:

• Supply Chain Strategy
• Material Planning
• Purchasing Execution
• Vendor Management
• Supply Chain Balancing
• Inventory Optimization
• Inventory Control
• SIOP/S&OP
• Cost Reduction
• Contract Manufacturing
• Warehouse Management
• VMI
• Indirect Material Management
• Lean Manufacturing

Supply Chain Strategy

We can perform comprehensive financial and operational evaluations of multi-site, off-shore, and/or contracted operations to assess strategic business options.

Material Planning

Our expertise is unsurpassed at establishing stable, accurate manufacturing and purchasing requirements designed to minimize inventory and maximize material availability using either kanbans, MRP, or a combination of the two.

Purchasing Execution

We can review and optimize your purchasing requirements and buying to more effectively and efficiently purchase in a way that economically supports production without material shortage disruptions.

Vendor Management & Interventions

Improved sourcing, purchasing signals, vendor capacity management, vendor performance measurement, and data interchange regimes can be put into place to make your external supply chain an integral part of your operation.

Supply Chain Balancing

Raw material, WIP, and finished good inventory management and production control can be implemented in a multi-site environment to make your business act as a single integrated entity that minimizes cost and maximizes performance.

Inventory Optimization

Altemir Consulting can implement effective ordering mechanisms and inventory planning for product distribution, build-to-stock, build-to-order, engineer-to-order, and vendor managed inventory (VMI) scenarios.  Reducing inventory while increasing customer fulfillment rates is often possible.  Learn more.

Inventory Control

We can review and improve shipping, receiving, and warehouse functions to significantly improve inventory accuracy and material availability.  Learn more.

SIOP/S&OP, Demand Planning, and Forecasting

We can develop or optimize your strategic planning processes across your organization and extended supply chain in a way that integrates sales forecasts, inventory planning, vendor capacity, and production.  Sales, inventory, and operations planning (SIOP/S&OP) is one of our specialties.

Cost Reduction

Altemir Consulting can lead bill of material (BOM) cost optimization and supply chain efficiency improvement efforts.

Contract Manufacturing

We have experience and expertise in evaluating and establishing cost-conscious outsourcing functions.  Formalizing economic make/buy decisions, developing vendor qualification programs, ensuring supplier quality, and integrating outside service providers into your manufacturing process are supply chain management improvements we can help bring about.

Warehouse Management

We can optimize your warehouse operations including both the setup and use of your warehouse management system (WMS) as well as establishing best practices to improve the locating of items, picking, packing, transfers, kitting, shipping, and receiving.

Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)

We can institute and optimize lean VMI processes to bridge the gap between suppliers and consumers.

Indirect Materials Management

We have hands-on experience in instituting effective controls over tooling and shop supplies to ensure reliable material availability and accurate cost accounting.

Lean Manufacturing

Visit our Lean Manufacturing page to learn we can help ensure on-time operating efficiency.