Solutions:

Lead Time Management

Lead Time Management aligns supply chain strategy with tactical execution by integrating cross-enterprise agreements with the direct material cost and lead time. By assessing and measuring cost and lead time against agreements, supply chain managers prioritize and define executable improvement strategies for commodities, components, product families, and customer orders that reduce cost, inventory, and delivery risks associated with a long lead time.

The Tools to Streamline

Fogbreak’s Lead Time Management helps companies make appropriate investments in inventory and communicate a prioritized action plan for execution. With Lead Time Management, you can:

• Reduce product lead time by increasing flexibility and reducing inventory liabilities
• Improve your ability to meet customer order cycle time requirements
• Improve financial performance predictability through better visibility into demand volatility and service level complexities
• Reduce overall inventory levels avoiding excess and obsolete write-offs

Capabilities

• Bill-of-Material profiling identifies opportunities to reduce lead time and provides comparisons between systems and suppliers
• Enables evaluation and development of component inventory strategies, including vendor-managed inventory, build-to-order, and build-to-stock
• Models flexibility programs with suppliers
• Models off-balance sheet inventory liability programs
• Enables evaluation and planning of last-time-buy decisions
• Analyzes and models product transition
• Reports liability for various customer lead time requirements
• Models and compares customer expectations vs. supplier commitments
• Compares program responsiveness vs. cost