Demand Responsiveness and Flexibility Modeling

Senior Vice President of Operations, OCZ

“Symphony quickly came up to speed on our business issues.  Their full spectrum of expertise complemented OCZ’s team and allowed us to continue to focus on running the business.   We have been pleased with the professionalism and the thoroughness of the Symphony team.”

– Jason Rupert, Senior Vice President of Operations, OCZ

Within almost every product company, you will find a contingent of people that believe that all would be well “if only we could create an accurate forecast.”  While there are definite steps a company can take to improve accuracy, in most industries the dynamic nature of the market makes it nearly impossible to create a flawless forecast.  The other leverage point that companies have is to make their supply chain more flexible so they can respond to un-forecasted demand.

Too often, the path to create “flexibility” involves adding various forms of buffer inventory.  This might address the immediate need but does not make your company more responsive.  In fact, burdened with the extra inventory, you cannot respond as quickly to engineering changes, quality issues, or shifts in product mix.

At Symphony Consulting, we believe in building true flexibility versus just buying inventory.  We help companies assess their current situation with respect to flexibility and inventory and determine the best way to meet their product needs. From there, we devise solutions using our portfolio of tools to create responsiveness without unnecessary inventory risk.

Examples of services we can provide:

  • Perform analysis to provide leaders important information product availability options and the impact on supply chain exposure, flexibility, and inventory risk
  • Use analysis tools to identify high-leverage supply chains and devise strategies to increase flexibility and decrease inventory risks  components and implement postponement manufacturing strategies
  • Develop predictive metrics to show progress and drive long-term structural improvements
  • Tailor  specific solutions to meet business needs given the realities of the current supply chain capabilities
  • Provide insights into the health of a multi-tiered supply chain by deploying  our proprietary “misalignments” metric to assess availability risk
  • Provide key contract language and negotiations service to build robust flexibility into important supply agreements especially for Contract Manufacturing

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