Manufacturing and Distribution

The simplest goal of all supply chain directors is to fulfill the promise of ‘right product, right place, right time’.

BMA’s solutions for manufacturing and distribution put the technology at your disposal to help your company build a smarter supply chain, by improving overall supply chain and manufacturing efficiencies.

Our tools allow your company to plan effectively, sense disruptions and react on a real-time basis, which will help you to:

• Reduce costs.
• Improve speed to market and customer responsiveness.
• Enhance demand planning and forecast accuracy to better align supply with demand.

Incorporating IBM’s superior supply chain technologies, with advanced visibility and cost management techniques, BMA offers the following solutions:

• Capacity planning
• Production planning and management
• Inventory planning and management
• Inventory reporting, costing and planning models
• Product costing
• Asset and depreciation analysis

 

Capacity planning

BMA’s capacity planning tools help your company develop long-term models of supply constraints based on planned capacity and demand forecasts.

The models can include multiple plant or facility locations and also various process components within those plants such as line throughput, labour availability, raw materials availability, planned preventative maintenance, batch scheduling rules, seasonal profiles, and transport constraints, etc.

Production or planning managers can also use the application to test alternative load balancing scenarios. Analysis and reporting tools enable your company to assess potential factory opportunities or issues.

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Production planning and management

Inventory planning and management

Inventory reporting, costing and planning models

For businesses that need to operate with minimal inventory levels while maintaining high customer service it is vital that the production planning process is efficient.

Using the right technology, with BMA’s guidance, can help your company:
 

• Bridge information silos to better manage sales and operations planning, ensure consistent goals and plans, and reduce errors.
• Optimise inventory across multiple levels in the supply chain while improving service levels and on-shelf availability.

Production planning software is useful when it enables your company to respond dynamically to production changes such as last-minute changes to customer order scheduling, machine breakdowns or raw materials shortages, while staying within the constraints of the master production schedule.

Our tools will enable you to analyse key inventory measures including stock turns, weeks of stock, unit costs, total holding costs, unit holding costs, purchase order delivery cycle times, suggested order quantities, by product source, warehouse, product and time. Future deliveries and costs can be modelled under different scenarios.

Better planning helps your company to increase sales, better manage inventories and improve customer service and responsiveness to shifting customer demands.

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Product costing

Product costing is a tool for planning costs and establishing prices for materials. It is used to calculate the costs of goods manufactured and the costs of goods sold for each product unit.

BMA’s application provides your company with a cost model for each individual product (with line, group, category and brand consolidations of SKUs). Once this data is at hand, your managers can then analyse by plant, warehouse or geographical region. The model allows for forecasts of costs based on individual parameter inputs (such as raw material unit costs, labour costs, plant costs, etc.).

Product cost controlling can help you:

• Plan your product costs accurately.
• Compare alternative cost estimates to optimise your business decisions.
• Monitor your product costs at every stage of the manufacturing process.
• Carry out detailed variance analysis on each order, product, and product group.
• Calculate actual costs by period.

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Asset and depreciation analysis

BMA provides a comprehensive asset analysis and planning model. It includes ongoing, new and retiring assets by ownership, time period, location, type and function.

Actual and calculated data (for example, forecast, scenarios and calculated from actuals) includes original cost, lifetime cost, salvage values, retirement date, depreciation, maintenance costs, and asset contribution value.

This enables your managers to conduct ‘what if’ scenario testing in real time (testing various assumptions such as extension of useful life, impact of changes to salvage value, impact on asset contribution of a change in use, etc.).

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