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labor constraints are impacting productivity, and inflation is increasing costs across the board. All of this has prompted company executives to take a closer look at their supply chains as the solution.

Supply chains are incredibly complex systems that require strategic planning and alignment throughout the organization to function properly. This is where enVista’s supply chain planning services come in.

Supply chain planning focuses on four specific areas to develop a data-driven understanding of the business and develop strategies and processes that will keep operations running smoothly. These robust planning strategies are the foundation of truly effective sales and operations planning (S&OP).

Four Pillars of Supply Chain Planning

Demand Planning

enVista’s consultants understand that consumer demand is the foundation of strong service and relies on several variables that are constantly ebbing. The demand planning phase provides you with a detailed assessment of your organization’s underlying demand patterns and product segmentation. Our team takes a holistic, end-to-end approach, analyzing your organization’s go-to-market strategy and distribution approaches to understand how they impact demand. Using this data, we will develop a future-state, best-in-class demand, and forecasting strategy along with a road map for implementation.

Supply Planning

enVista provides supply planning for retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, and distributors. The goal of supply planning is to reduce variability in order to increase the reliability of an organization’s ongoing product supply and align it with the organization’s go-to-market strategy and underlying demand patterns. Our team will analyze your current-state supply chain and fulfillment strategy, vendor and manufacturer performance, run/ordering frequencies, and lot sizing to identify opportunities for improvement. We can then work with your team to develop future supply strategies and tactics along with an implementation plan.

Inventory and Replenishment Strategy

enVista’s inventory and replenishment strategy services begin with analyzing how product flows through your fulfillment network. We then develop inventory models to identify the appropriate levels and create a target inventory objective at every location, whether it is a multi-node series of distribution centers or a number of manufacturing sites. Our team will take a data-driven approach to understanding where, when, and how much inventory is needed to best service fulfillment needs based on demand, supply, and other product attributes, creating a plan for every product.

System Selection and Implementation

enVista’s team can help select and implement the full gamut of supply chain planning systems based on your organization’s specific needs. We have evaluated more than 35 tools in the marketplace, so we understand the strengths of each tool in the continuum and take care to customize the selection process based on your organization’s needs and the tool’s strengths.

Our team will take a deep dive into your operations to understand what business requirements are needed in a system, both today and in the future, to increase overall service performance, working capital performance, and visibility across the supply chain. enVista can also implement demand planning tools, manufacturing scheduling tools, and end-to-end supply chain suites in their entirety or conjunction with a technical implementer. We have a strong understanding of the business processes and configurations needed to ensure a successful implementation and adoption.

enVista’s Approach

Holistic View

enVista takes a holistic, end-to-end view with every supply chain planning project. Not only are we the only provider that can take you from sourcing through automation, but we will also focus on your entire organization, including its people, processes, and technology. With 30 years of strategic consulting experience and an unmatched depth of expertise as industry practitioners, our consultants have been in the supply chain leaders’ shoes and, therefore, have familiarity with their day-to-day activities and roles. This equips our team with a unique mindset with which to approach your supply chain planning challenges.

Vendor Agnostic

Every software recommendation that we provide during a selection process is impartial to vendors. enVista follows an in-depth system selection process during which we take the time to understand your organization’s unique needs, including cost, functionality, and implementation timeframe. We use that information, as well as our deep knowledge and understanding of the technology market, to determine the best software solution for your organization.

Four-Pronged

enVista’s consulting methodology follows an intentional, three-step process: Assessment, Analysis and Recommendation, and Implementation. enVista will utilize the following methodology to generate a product flow and inventory assessment

Change management

After all strategies, tactics, and systems have been implemented into the supply chain network and its facilities, enVista’s team stays on to conduct change management practices and training that will ensure

Key Benefits

A supply chain cannot attain peak performance and customer satisfaction without beginning with a detailed supply chain planning process. Some specific benefits of consulting enVista as your supply chain planning partner are:

• Driving higher service levels
• Increasing efficiency of working capital
• Creating processes that are scalable with organizational growth
• Eliminating excess handling
• Lowering warehouse and transportation costs

Why enVista?

We see the full picture. Rather than homing in on a particular piece of the supply chain, enVista’s unique perspective of the end-to-end supply chain enables a customized approach that accounts for every moving piece of the operation. enVista’s recommendations will always align with your organization’s overall supply chain strategy.

enVista is the leading supply chain and enterprise consulting firm and the premier provider of supply chain technology & strategy services, material handling automation & robotics, Microsoft solutions and IT managed services. With 20+ years of unmatched domain expertise, enVista serves thousands of leading brands. enVista’s unique ability to consult, implement, and operate across supply chain, IT, and enterprise technology solutions allows companies to leverage enVista as a trusted advisor across their enterprises.

The company is a global dental supply and manufacturing company with multiple industry-leading products. The manufacturer has vertically integrated disciplines of chemistry, engineering, automation, robotics, marketing, and more and has experienced 30+ years of consistent business growth.

Transit times are critical to the company’s business model, as deliveries are part of a dentist’s service provision. However, obtaining cost savings while maintaining or even improving transit times can be challenging. Having already partnered with enVista’s sourcing experts multiple times to optimize and refine its parcel cost strategies, the company saw the opportunity to partner once again to ensure optimal transit times and cost savings.

ENVISTA’S SOLUTION

In order to manage the push and pull of the company’s two conflicting business objectives – low transit times and high-cost saving – enVista’s team leveraged market intelligence, reliable analytics, and strategic scenario optimization. Technological and operational constraints limited the company to a single national carrier, so the scope of the bid was limited. enVista initially determined that the company had the opportunity for 7.8-8.9% cost savings, even with the involved transit constraints.

Both national carriers participated in the enVista-facilitated RFP process. Although both carriers offered proposals that would result in cost savings, the non-incumbent carrier offered little in terms of savings paired with the perceived transit conversion risk.

enVista’s history of working with the dental manufacturer increased awareness and sensitivity to the transit issue, enabling a quick execution and accelerated realized savings. The company was able to retain its incumbent carrier, avoiding a costly carrier conversion process and technology implementation, while also realizing 9.7% cost savings.