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Working Capital Supply Chain Management & Operation Controls

We Offer Comprehensive Business Process Re-engineering and Management Consulting Services for China and the Asia Pacific.

The Issue: Cash flow, and customer service in a dynamic and growing market.

Today's customers have global choices of goods and service that are highly responsive and flexible. The fierce competition for markets, and customers request for more value added products and services coupled with the importance of shareholders value, and the risk of market volatility requires enterprises maintain higher levels of customers service and productivity, while reducing investments in working capital.

The Solution: Integral working capital control processes and extended supply chain management.

Our Focus

Our working capital and supply chain solutions are designed to provide practical, quantifiable, and sustaining improvements in:

  • Economic Value Added
  • Return on Investment
  • Working Capital Reductions
  • Productivity and Cost Control
  • Collaboration & Integration
  • Integral Cross Function Business Process
  • Customer Service & Competitive Advantage
  • People, Knowledge & Partnership
  • Rationalization & Leveraging of Resources
  • Monitoring, Control & Analyses
  • Cycle & Lead Time

Our Areas of Expertise

Our expertise in supply chain management and working capital are central to an enterprise's sustained growth, competitive advantage, and the building of shareholder value. Working at all levels of your organization; we will identify practical solutions resulting in tangible working capital benefits, while meeting the needs of your customers for quality service and value. Our programs will increase your enterprise's cash flow efficiency and productivity, simultaneously freeing resources for expansion of markets and development of reliable valued added relationships. Collaborating with your essential suppliers, distributors and customers, we build long-term partnerships of real value and competitive advantage for all parties. We build these valued relations, based on shared visions, agreed terms, viable levels of service and practical business processes.

Working Capital Control and Optimization

  • Accounts Receivables and Revenue Management
  • Accounts Payables, and Expenditure Management
  • Integrated Inventory, and Replenishment Management

Supply/Demand Chain Management

  • Relationship and Network Management
    1. Suppliers, 3rd Party Services, Production, Distributors and Customers
    2. Flow of Funds, Products, Information, Knowledge and Services
  • Increased Flexibility and Responsiveness
    1. Shorter Cycle and Lead Times
  • Integrated Inventory and Replenishment Management
    1. Collaborative Planning and Demand Activated Production
  • Optimization and Rationalization of Resource Base
    1. Suppliers, Products, Services and Customers

Typical Working Capital Project Set Up

We propose a three or four-phase approach, which includes the following objectives. Each phase will also include a clear set of deliverables Depending on the size of the organization and initiative, projects typically last three to four months.

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Scoping
  • Define strategy
  • Set priorities
  • Agree plans and targets
  • Establish resources
  • Communicate program
  • Identify function Analysis
Days
Analysis
  • Define benefits targets
  • Define time frames
  • Identify process improvements
  • Identify organizational impacts
  • Create conceptual designs
  • Detail Process Design
Days / Weeks
Detail Process Design
  • Redesign processes
  • Quantify benefits against plan
  • Define implementation plan
  • Define new organization skill levels
  • Define system implications
  • Implementation
Days / Weeks
Implementation
  • Phase in new processes
  • Implement changes
  • Phase in new tools
  • Receive the benefits
Weeks

Each phase and time frames are configurable to meet our customers' needs. For example, a three-phase approach combining the 'Analysis' and 'Detail Process Design' could provide the quality and level of service our customers require. Alternatively, the 'Implementation' phase could be lead by the customer's team in conjunction with inspection and audits visits by a Corporate Capital Consultants project manager or consultant.