WN CONSULTING

Automate supply chain consulting

Solutions

Software-as-a-Service
+ CoachingAutomate consulting and run data-driven supply chain optimizations on your own. Full analytics support and coaching by our experts is included.

With the rise of open-source technologies and AI consultancies started a race of “asset-based consulting” and “micro-services”.To provide our partner-consultancies and industry-clients a leading edge, we digitized and automated projects with the browser-based, plug&play Supply Chain Optimizer (SCO) and created a holistic software+coaching service.Benefits:

  • Speed: profound results after a single-day analysis, cutting project durations from months to days

  • Quality: enable young professionals to deliver senior-level results

  • Efficiency: minimize workload on experts and increase ROI on projects

  • Value: optimal supply chain parameter and action lists for immediate use (e.g., forecast model allocation, inventory target level, production lead times)

  • Risk mitigation: proof of advanced planning approaches, and identify optimal SAP configuration before implementation

Start your supply chain transformations with a “wow-effect” and learn more at www.SupplyChainOptimizer.de

Consulting

Ad-hoc data analysisOur experts execute a supply chain optimization to derive an optimal setup within days.

  • Automated with our next-generation software

  • Data-driven therefore based on facts

  • Results per SKU for immediate use

  • Applied research of elite universities combined with 12+ years of SAP and SCM consulting

  • Fixed price for full cost control

Approach

  1. Scoping call: we explain our data requirements and align on the optimization scope as well as project expectations.

  2. Offering: we prepare an offer based on scope and deliverables (typical price range: 15-45K€). Go/No-go decision.

  3. Preparation: the client gathers and shares data for the agreed scope following our templates. We review the data quality.

  4. Optimization: we execute the optimization in our "Supply Chain Optimizer" app (link). The results will be shared within a workshop in MS PowerPoint and MS Excel for immediate use

  5. Scale: (optional) to integrate and sustain the optimal configuration in a productive solution (e.g., SAP S/4, SAP IBP, OMP, Kinaxis, o9...) we handover to our consulting partners

Feel free to connect via mail or LinkedIn.

We will provide specific answers to the following questions:

  • What is the benefit of an Advanced Planning System (APS)?

  • How much supply chain planning can be automated with an APS?

  • Which SKUs benefit most?

  • Which trends and innovations to consider (demand-shaping, ML forecasting, …)? How big is the impact/benefit?

  • How to cluster the supply chain by importance, demand pattern, life cycle status, degree of automation, ...?

  • Which forecast and inventory strategy to choose for which SKU?

  • What is a realistic forecast accuracy benchmark? What is the best forecast accuracy possible with statistical methods? With AI?

  • How to combine forecast approaches (statistical, human and AI)?

  • Which inventory strategy to assign to which product?

  • What is a good inventory level benchmark?

  • What is the optimal service level, lot sizes, and inventory target level for each SKU depending on the inventory strategy?

  • Where to remove over/dead stock?

  • Which SKUs are on a critical low inventory level?

  • What are realistic production lead times for each SKU?

  • For which SKUs do we frequently observe late delivery?

  • Which SKUs are over-/under-produced?

  • How is the volatility within the supply chain impacted by the forecast and inventory approach?

  • Which production lines are most volatile?

  • …

About

Our software and services empower supply chain consultants and industry-clients to cut project durations from months to days while delivering profound results.WN Consulting builds on expertise and high standards gained from 12+ years of SAP and process consulting as well as research at elite universities (University of Cologne & Rotterdam). Our experience gained from 100+ analysis across various industries is digitized in a single software solution.

Contact

Nils Winkler
CEO and Founder
Lecturer University of Cologne

Annenstraße 24, 50354 Hürth, Germany