Verticalnets Supply Chain Optimization solutions help companies achieve successful supply chain transformation. With a focus on optimizing a companys flows of materials, information, cash, and work from suppliers, through the organization, and on to customers, Verticalnet uses its accomplished, industry experts, proven processes and advanced optimization technologies to help our clients gain the most from their supply chain initiatives. Verticalnets value-based assessment approach enables us to rapidly evaluate a companys current operations and identify performance gaps across the supply chain, including examination of:

Planning and Forecasting - Collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment.
Supply Management - Strategic sourcing, supplier management, and procurement.
Manufacturing - Lean manufacturing, production planning.
Distribution and Logistics- warehousing, transportation, network rationalization.
Performance Management - Scorecards, executive dashboards.
Key activities within our Supply Chain Optimization approach include:

An assessment to identify improvement opportunities and prioritize initiatives, driven by strategic imperatives, resource availability, risk to the business, size of the opportunity and time to achieve results.
Quick wins are identified to achieve immediate savings and show the power of our approach.
A global vision and value chain management strategy is defined.
Business infrastructure is developed to embed the change and drive continuous improvement. Infrastructure includes internal and external performance measures, process changes, role and responsibility changes and updated policies and procedures.
Finally, technology implementation is completed in parallel - as needed. Your value chain strategy drives the business requirements. The technology embeds the change, provides management reports and the tools to enable continuous improvement.