Supply chain leaders in the Food & Beverage Industry face unique issues in the planning, sourcing, manufacturing and delivery of products. Sourcing constraints due to seasonal crop harvest, governmental regulations, changing retailer packaging demands, and intense competition for limited shelf space all play key roles in determining the best solution for production and delivery. Internal pressures to constantly maintain optimal supply chain performance add to make this a particularly challenging business problem.
To build and maintain a competitive edge, companies look for solutions to manage this complex environment - solutions that can help businesses meet changing customer needs while optimizing competing performance goals.
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 Food and Beverage
The Picaso™ Solution provides food and beverage companies with an enterprise-wide suite of tools that offers:
- Visibility Over the Global Supply Chain
including visibility to real-time key performance indicators, inventory projections for multiple SKUs, and alerting of unexpected bottlenecks or service issues
- Reduced Time and Cost to Speed 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
- Increased Customer Service Levels
through real-time analysis tools supporting order-taking and monitoring tools to know the status of every order instantly
- 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
- Enhanced Integration to Upstream and Downstream Partners
with Picaso's unique integration technology and visibility solutions, you can see the whole picture covering suppliers, partners, and customer inventories and changing demand
- Real-time Functionality to Optimize Supply Chain Operations
by determining the optimal sales, sourcing, production and distribution plans to meet customer needs while optimizing profitability
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
Food and Beverage 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.
Food and Beverage 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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