To stay competitive in the Construction Materials Industry, companies must be able to react quickly to changing demand in the marketplace and maintain control over manufacturing costs, inventory levels and delivery options. Faced with both internal and external pressures to perform, supply chain executives must balance issues such as:
- Product consistency
- Seasonal demand
- Regulatory constraints
- Fluctuating material costs
- Profitability
Leading edge companies look for solutions that understand how to work in this complex environment; solutions that can balance dynamic customer and partner needs with the performance goals and operational constraints that affect their business.
WAM Systems' Picaso™ is designed to address this type of environment, and accommodate the industry's specialized needs through an intuitive solution that places critical decision-making information in the hands of the key personnel who need it most.
The Picaso™ Solution for Construction Materials
The Picaso™ Solution provides CPG companies with an enterprise-wide suite of tools that offers many features and benefits, including:
- Dynamic Production Scheduling
which builds upon a combination of sales history, collaborative sales forecasts and production constraints to present a continually-optimized production schedule across the entire supply chain, accommodating the industry's ever-present seasonal production needs
- Increased Accuracy and Consistency of Data
through extended visibility and validation tools that maintain a watch on all critical numbers in your orders and production information flow
- Full Compliance with Government Regulations
through extended documentation and reporting
- Reduced Time and Cost for Bringing Products to Market
through extended visibility which helps you optimize the manufacturing process, maintain optimized inventory levels and strengthen your ability to obtain desired shelf space
- Visibility Over the Global Supply Chains
including visibility to key performance indicators (KPIs), real-time inventory projections for multiple SKUs and updated impact analysis of collaborative forecasting
- Increased Customer Service Levels
through real-time analysis tools for Available-to-Promise (ATP) / Capable-to-Promise (CTP) data reporting as well as comprehensive metrics for demand history
- Automated Functionality to Optimize Supply Chain Operations
including maintaining optimal inventory levels and support for time-phased safety-stocks
Deployed in a suite of interconnected modules that incorporate WAM's industry-leading supply chain methodology, the WAM Picaso™ Solution allows supply chain executives to manage every aspect of their planning operation, including:
- Collaborative Demand Management and Forecasting
- Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)
- Inventory Targeting and Optimization
- Distribution Planning and Scheduling
- Production Planning & Scheduling
- Supply Chain Management and Optimization
- Optimal Policy Setting
- Raw Materials Planning
- Available-to-Promise (ATP) / Capable-to-Promise (CTP) Order Fulfillment Analysis
Construction Materials Industry Benchmarking
WAM Systems conducts an ongoing series of benchmarking surveys for companies throughout the process manufacturing industry in an effort to assess the overall maturity of supply chain practices. The purpose of these surveys is to help each company compare its supply chain process maturity with that of its industry peers.
Each survey is composed of a telephone interview and final report--loaded with demographic and benchmarking data--and is kept confidential to the participating company. Companies find this analysis useful when there is a desire to confirm
what they perceive to be an industry gap within their current planning processes.
Construction Materials Industry Best-Practices
Process and Management Consulting
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Process™ is a concise yet thorough analysis of a company's
existing supply chain operation which is designed to help key executives evaluate
the potential for process and technology improvement in a format that
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Supporting WAM's Picaso™ Solution is its unparalleled industry supply chain consulting service, whose leading offering is a multi-faceted analysis and benchmarking study called the WAM-ID Process™.
By using this process, WAM has helped numerous companies discover real value, that can be
quantified and achieved through a tangible roadmap of process improvement and supporting technology implementation.
Learn more about the WAM-ID Process™ and how it can quickly and
easily be launched inside your company to address the concerns and
potential of your supply chain planning organization.
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WAM Systems has been helping companies improve their supply chain operations since 1987. Contact us to discover how we can help your company reach its full potential.
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Successful process improvement begins with an assessment of your current operation. Our benchmarking and consulting services help define areas for improvement and create a roadmap for change.
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