Supply Chain

Demand Planning

Eclectic's consultants can provide valuable advice and input on designing and implementing a demand planning system for your organisation. Our expertise includes creating and consolidating sales forecasts to drive raw material, production, inventory and distribution requirements within a single solution. Using sophisticated modelling techniques, Eclectic can automatically generate forecasts for each organisational function within the demand planning process ranging from sales and marketing to logistics and financials.

Benefits

• Meet demand, avoid losing sales and increase revenue.
• Manage costs more effectively.
• Improve customer satisfaction and customer retention.
• Optimise the supply chain process.
• Eliminate obsolete inventory throughout the supply chain.

Procurement Modelling

Eclectic's procurement modelling tools empower purchasing decision makers to track buying against targets, identify market trends, evaluate the effects of inflation/deflation and monitor supplier performance. It enables managers to benchmark performance and complements scorecard based measurements. Using a multi-dimensional framework, data is aggregated across product group, buying group, supplier/contract to provide analytical reporting of price, volume, and value measures. Forecasting and "what-if" modelling functions assist buyers in setting targets and then comparing against actuals.

Benefits

• Increased power for leveraging supplier performance.
• Easily identify poor performing suppliers.
• Flags up recurring issues with suppliers.
• Accurate information plus "what-if" modelling supports future planning.
• Increased profitability as a result of pricing from suppliers.
• Increased profitability through better service to internal customers.