Process analysis
We follow an order through your system, from demand to delivery, and mark the points where it gets stuck.
Supply chain management with SAP
Procurement, production, materials management and logistics interlock in SAP. We make sure that holds up in daily business and not just in the process manual.
Most supply chains work fine as long as nothing gets in the way. It becomes visible during a delivery delay, a material shortage or a short-term replan. That is when you find out whether planning parameters are maintained, whether confirmations from production reach the system in time and whether stock figures are right.
We work exactly at those points. Not with a reference model from the drawer, but with your numbers: where stock builds up, where orders wait, which messages arrive too late and who corrects them by hand afterwards.
Our experience comes from more than three decades of logistics and supply chain projects, from mechanical engineering to hospital logistics to public sector procurement. It goes into every analysis.
Why clients get in touch
- Stock keeps growingAnd nobody can say at which point it builds up, or why there of all places.
- Planning happens outside the systemWhen the important decisions are made in a spreadsheet, the SAP figures stop being reliable.
- Promised delivery dates do not holdThe availability check says yes, reality on the shop floor says something else.
- Confirmations arrive too lateHalf a day sits between the plant and the system, and planning works with outdated stock figures.
- Two plants, two logicsAfter an acquisition, two sites run on different rules inside the same client.
Topics
Where we start
Individual areas or the whole chain from demand to delivery.
Materials management and planning
Planning procedures, lot sizes, safety stock and replenishment times tuned to actual demand.
Production planning
From rough-cut planning to shop floor control, including confirmations from the plant and actual costs.
Procurement
Purchase order processing, supplier connections, contracts and goods receipt without media breaks.
Warehouse and logistics
Warehouse structure, picking, shipping and the connection of external service providers.
Key figures
Reports that planners and plant management actually use, instead of yet another spreadsheet.
How we work
From assessment to measurable improvement
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Step 1AssessmentInterviews in purchasing, planning, production and the warehouse, plus an analysis of your transaction data.
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Step 2AnalysisWe separate which effects come from parameters, which from the process and which simply from poor data quality.
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Step 3MeasuresA prioritised list with effort and expected effect, agreed with the departments who have to live with it.
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Step 4ImplementationCustomising, adjustments, training and afterwards the measurement of whether the expected effect actually appears.
What you get
How we work
We count
Before and after the measure, so the improvement is evidenced rather than merely claimed.
Practice before model
A process that bypasses the planners is not a good process. We talk to the people who run it.
No system change needed
Many improvements are possible directly in your current SAP system, without a new project and without a conversion. We only propose larger initiatives when the benefit is clear.
Questions
Frequently asked
Do we need SAP S/4HANA for this?
No. A large part of these topics can be solved in ECC as well. If SAP S/4HANA makes a real difference, we will say so, but we do not sell a conversion as a precondition.
How long does a process analysis take?
For one site we plan three to six weeks up to the list of measures. It mostly depends on how quickly we get access to data and to the right people.
What if our master data is poor?
Then we start there. Without reliable planning parameters and bills of material, no process change will have an effect. The clean-up can usually be prepared largely automatically.
Contact
Is something stalling at a particular point?
Describe where it gets stuck. It is often possible to narrow down the cause in the first conversation.
Describe your situation