Bayer Global

Supply Chain Optimization (SCO)

We design, analyze and optimize your supply chain based on well-established systematic improvement methodologies (e.g. Lean and Six Sigma). We apply cutting edge, powerful software tools that are designed in-house or provided by the market – for our offering in both mathematical-based quantitative consulting and the implementation of supply chain management solutions.

Supply Chain Consulting
- Supply Chain Business Process Excellence
  - Plan to Produce / Demand to Supply process
  - Order to Cash process
- Supply Chain Design
  - Business Process (Re-)Engineering
  - Capacity debottlenecking and investment decision support: Determine the maximum achievable capacity or the optimal capacity to invest into considering operational figures e.g. service level, lead time, and order size distribution
  - Supply Chain Network Design and Optimization
  - Inventory Management and Optimization
  - Supply Chain Risk Management
- Supply Chain Planning
  - Design and implementation of supply chain planning processes including e.g. collaborative planning scenarios
  - Implementation of SAP-based planning solutions
  - Development of planning strategies (e.g. how to consider asset utilization in production planning)
- Supply-Chain Operational Excellence
  - Inventory management and optimization
  - Working capital optimization
  - KPI definition, measuring, and improvement (e.g. service levels, lead times, on time in full (OTIF) metrics, logistics costs)
- Project Management incl. PMO
Supply Chain Solutions: BayAPS^®Suite

Lot Size Optimization with BayAPS^®LS
Production Planning with BayAPS^®PP
Detailed Scheduling with BayAPS^®DS
Investment Optimization with BayAPS^®IO
Smart Dashboards (e.g. Order Navigator, Supply Chain KPI Tracker, Lane Optimizer)

Methods and Tools
- Operations research and mathematical methods (e.g. statistical methods in forecasting)
- BayAPS^®Suite
- Lean Six Sigma
- SCOR modeling
- Peer benchmarking